Adam Lehrer and Park MacDougald write in Tablet’s Daily Scroll (link below):
[After] Trump’s executive order halting “gender-affirming care” for minors, … New York City hospital NYU Langone canceled appointments for some children…. Trump’s executive order isn’t particularly reactionary but places our gender-affirming care practices in line with those of our allies; the United Kingdom, for example, banned puberty blockers for children under 18 last year.
Nevertheless, on Monday night, hundreds of people gathered in a park near NYU Langone’s before marching toward the hospital’s entrance to protest the cancellations. The rally was headed by speakers organized by local chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America and included a rogues’ gallery of New York’s left-wing political figures, including City Council member Tiffany Cában and actress and former candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon, whose son received transgender care from NYU Langone.
Added: On the IGF Facebook page, a commenter asked: “Do you understand the difference between Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity? It appears that you do not.”
I replied: “I don’t think a 9-year-old boy knows the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity. I do know that peer-reviewed studies overwhelming show that almost all kids with gender confusion or symptoms of gender dysphoria outgrew the sense they are “wrongly sexed” after puberty (and by their early 20s), and that of this cohort most turn out to be gay — if they weren’t put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones that leave them permanently sterilized and unable to experience orgasm.”
And this!
Also: “[Dr. Erica Li] said there are signs many children who claim to be transgender or profess some other similar gender identity are victims of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a situation in which a person of influence makes up fake symptoms or is the cause of real symptoms in a child, in order for the adult to receive social approval.”
