Excellent analysis by Art Morty. A few excerpts:
>>Millions of teenagers were handed smartphones and left to congregate largely unsupervised on social media platforms like Tumblr and Reddit, where ordinary adolescent anxieties about sex and identity collided with the abstractions of queer theory. En masse, young people began to ruminate over their supposedly “wrong” bodies….<<
>>A vast medical infrastructure has risen to cater to this new market. “Gender clinics” have sprouted across the continent, generating billions in revenue by prescribing lifelong drug regimens and performing surgeries that permanently alter healthy bodies and frequently result in sterility. ….<<
>>At the same time that transgender identification emerged as a novel mass phenomenon among young people, the original adult male population from which transgender ideology first emerged — men with an eroticized internal self-concept of “womanhood” — underwent an explosive expansion into public life. Men who had previously kept cross-dressing practices in private began, in numbers never before seen, to demand recognition not merely as transgender, but as actual women in law and material fact — a categorical shift in how sex itself was defined and enforced. The consequences have been far-reaching, particularly for women’s rights, gay rights, and freedom of speech, as private self-conceptions were elevated into public, legal, and institutional demands.<<
All too common these days: