Desire Doesn’t Drive Reality
From the print edition of The New American
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, by Ryan T. Anderson, New York: Encounter Books, 2018, vii + 251 pages, hardcover.
In February of this year, something happened in a courtroom that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. A judge in Ohio ordered that a 17-year-old girl — who identifies as a boy — be taken from the custody of her parents and be given to her grandparents. And what was the great crime of the parents? The parents refused to call their daughter by her new masculine name and would not authorize her to undergo hormone treatments to begin the transition from female to “male,” thus triggering “suicidal thoughts” in the teenager. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where the teenager has been treated since 2016, advised the court that she should start treatments as soon as possible to decrease her suicide risk. The court ordered that before any hormone treatment is allowed, the teenager should be evaluated by a psychologist on “the issue of consistency in the child’s gender presentation, and feelings of non-conformity.”
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