Many transgender people need specific medical services to affirm their gender. Gender-affirming health care services may include mental health support, hormone therapy, and reconstructive surgeries. Scant information is available about the utilization ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A lot of interesting data in here about the exponential rise of the gender-denialist industry.
You can make a LOT of money off of people's confusion! In fact I'd hazard a guess that the consumer's
state of confusion makes money in quite a few industries - Addiction/rehab for sure, religious groups when people mis-use them for $ and power, politics to take advantage of suffering and offer a vague or ineffective or untrue or even-more-harmful solution (government dependency, some minorities), etc.
I have first hand experience in this. I've been reflecting on this for a couple years, and I have concluded that if you were to ask me just approximately speaking, what would I say is the absolute worst, most painful, most consequential, most evil thing or harm that has ever been done to me, or tried to be done, or lobbed in my direction broadly speaking, I would say this: It would be during times & topics in my life where I was confused and suffering from deeply held beliefs mostly constituted by delusions, and when a person or people basically "toyed" with that -- i.e. affirmed, suggested, steered, complicated, used, that.
What I needed during that time was people who would gently tell me the truth. Not my truth, The truth. Not affirming, rather Correcting.
I needed to be listened to, yes - to a degree, and to that degree only.
But there were those who 'used' the confusion to their own ends, and I would put them in the category of the most hurtful.
May God have mercy on those who are actively working to encourage the most casual decision-making process, with the most gossamer possible basis to 10, 12, 14 year olds ..... Which has one of the most consequential impacts they'll ever face.
Beyond deception, which is explanation enough, most people's actual basis is apparent enough:
- Medical industry = $
- Medical students = You just don't stand up and challenge a professor. I know this from law school, you just .... don't do it. You comply
- Politicians = to gain the favor and resultant power that comes from appearing to be the Savior of [any group]
- The 30% of regular Americans who support this stuff = They were taught that to support this equals love and beneficience. Their underlying motives are good, they just bought into a lie that, quite irrationally, connects the two things
Tolerating the general flaunting of unconventional lifestyles and 'identities', against what we want to teach our children, is one thing.
Tolerating the government and schools physically forcing children to accept and promote these things is quite another--and possibly one reason why some feel it would, hypothetically, be an issue worth fighting for.
At the very least, vote Republican always, until we get an electable 3rd party candidate.