When Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender after WWII, saw pamphlets dropped by the United States stating the war was over, he thought it was a trick by the enemy and continued fighting, hiding, and killing in the Philippine jungle — for 29 years. It was only when his wartime commander traveled to his remote location in 1974 and ordered Onoda to lay down his arms that he gave up the battle and returned to Japan.
If only the “transgender” cultists were so reasonable.
While their cause was never more noble than Imperial Japan’s, their die-hards fight on, even in the face of yet another scientific report — this one issued by a leading pediatrician — stating that giving children SDTs (Sexual Distortion Treatments, e.g., puberty blockers) is unwise and dangerous.
In a nutshell, the “report by paediatric consultant Dr Hilary Cass has made 32 recommendations, including: calling for the ‘unhurried’ care of those under 25 who think they may be transgender; an end to the prescribing of powerful hormone drugs to under-18s; and early help for primary school children who want to socially transition,” related The Telegraph April 10.
You can read the entire news piece if you wish, but know that this latest study is not unique. In fact, The New American and other honest sources have for years reported on the data, research, expert pronouncements, and whistleblower revelations demonstrating that SDT interventions may actually increase confused kids’ suicide rate, are driven largely by ideological and profit motives, have no scientific basis, and generally do more harm than good.
(Note: Research indicates that among sexual-identity-confused youths, 80-plus percent of girls and 90-plus percent of boys will return to normalcy while passing through adolescence — if left to develop naturally.)
Yet coming from an establishment source, the report is an example of how the worm is turning on the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda; despite this, there’s no mea culpa from the MUSS enablers.
Some (as in the Covid fiasco’s wake) are just keeping quiet and changing the subject. They are, as The Telegraph’s Suzanne Moore puts it, like someone who’d been “interning as a witch hunter” and who “might say, ‘I only helped with the pyres, I didn’t actually light the fire.’”
Then there are the true believers deceivers (so deceitful they deceive themselves). These “zealots simply come out with their own ‘alternative facts,’” states Moore, and are so hostile and dangerous that Dr. Cass has been threatened and warned against using public transportation.
This also is nothing new. Years ago already, after I editorialized against the MUSS agenda, one of its activists said he wanted my “head on a platter.” Then there was the notorious 2015 incident in which MUSS man “Zoey Tur” threatened to put commentator Ben Shapiro in a hospital.
(In other words, it’s not surprising that MUSS individuals have perpetrated/planned multiple mass shootings in recent years. They are a troubled bunch.)
Moore names a number of European figures who are doubling down on the MUSS agenda. They should “question whether giving drugs that we use to castrate sex offenders to children is ‘kind,’” she writes. “But no, they prefer self-righteous and deliberate ignorance.”
In fact, “because the gender cult defended all this as ‘gender-affirming’ care, as about ‘identity’ [biology, actually] rather than psychology, they will not back down,” Moore adds. “Their very existence [and sometimes income] depends on these growing numbers of ‘trans children.’”
So it’s life-changing, body-rending SDTs for confused kids. It “is not ‘a pause,’” Moore sums up, “but a one-way ticket to a life of hormones and surgery.”
Moore correctly frames the MUSS agenda as reflecting “cult thinking.” And those “still defending the sterilisation and mutilation of children are exposing themselves daily,” she writes, and “they are squirming” because now there’s increasing institutional pushback. Yet here’s the point Moore misses:
She, too, has been affected by the cult thinking.
That is, Moore merely wants the cultists to accept that “there is a difference between adults and children,” overlooking that the difference is not that adults can switch sexes but children can’t.
No one can.
This matters because the MUSS crews’ SDTs-for-children appeals have a logic to them. Remember here that corollaries follow from premises; thus, operating perfectly logically but starting with false premises leads to absolutely logical but incorrect conclusions.
So what follows from accepting the premises that A, people can be born in the body of the “wrong” sex; and B, that this “problem” can be remedied by becoming a simulacrum of the opposite one? Here’s a corollary:
“Transitioning” children before they develop their secondary sexual characteristics — which begin manifesting at puberty — enables them to become far better simulacrums.
Ergo, puberty blockers.
Moore and many others are thus prescribing a neither-fish-nor-fowl position, in many cases motivated by a desire to remain within the Overton window (the range of “acceptable” public discourse). Moore writes, for example, that “we are not” debating “the existence of trans people.”
Well, we should be.
People with a psychological problem which I’ll call Sexual Identity Disorder certainly exist; men with autogynephilia exist.
But “transgender” individuals don’t exist because people don’t have “gender” but the quality known as “sex” — and switching sexes is impossible.
As I’ve said before, mushy Moore-like MUSS positions are akin to saying, “Be crazy, but not too crazy. You can jump off that cliff — just be sure to stop halfway down.”
Unlike with Lieutenant Onoda’s situation, people won’t give up the fight when you tell them the war not only isn’t lost, but you’ll let them keep half the cultural territory they unfairly seized. Evil ideologies — whether relating to changing an empire’s borders or kids’ bodies — must be wholly rejected and completely eradicated.
