The attack on sexual morality predicted almost 100 years ago has intensified to the point where it’s an overt attack on kids — on their minds and souls. The latest example comes courtesy of a whistleblower and insider documents, writes journalist Christopher Rufo, informing that the “largest children’s hospital in Chicago has created partnerships with local school districts to promote radical gender theory, ‘kink,’ ‘BDSM,’ and ‘trans-friendly’ sex toys for children.”
At issue is an unholy alliance between sexual devolutionary activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and schools throughout Cook County. According to documents Rufo has reviewed and an examination of school websites, he can conclude that Lurie has provided educators in at least four districts — District 75, District 120, District 181, and District 204 — with materials promoting “gender” theory, MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “trans”) activism, and explicit sexual perversion. The aforementioned whistleblower, Rufo says, informed that these materials were distributed to school staff as part of employee “training.”
As Rufo reports:
The primary training document, “Beyond Binary: Gender in Schools,” follows the basic narrative of academic queer theory: white, Western society has created an oppressive gender binary, falsely dividing the world into the categories of man and woman, that has resulted in “transphobia,” “cissexism,” and “systemic discrimination” against racial and sexual minorities. Versions of the document were attributed to Jennifer Leininger, associate director of Lurie’s Community Programs and Initiatives, and Hadeis Safi, a “nonbinary” gender activist who uses “they/them” pronouns and works for the hospital’s LGBTQ and Gender Inclusion program—which advertises its care for children with “gender expansive” identities and offers “gender-affirming” medical procedures, including puberty blockers for children.
The presentation encourages teachers and school administrators to support “gender diversity” in their districts, automatically “affirm” students who announce sexual transitions, and “communicate a non-binary understanding of gender” to children in the classrooms. The objective, as one version of the presentation suggests, is to disrupt the “entrenched [gender] norms in western society” and facilitate the transition to a more “gender creative” world.
In at least two districts, the activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital also recommended that teachers offer a series of sexually explicit resources to children as young as 11. At the end of the “Beyond Binary” presentation circulated to teachers in District 75 and District 120, the hospital recommended a “Binder Exchange Program” to assist teenage girls in binding their breasts, a “kid friendly website for gender affirming gear,” which sells items such as artificial penis “packers” and female-to-male “trans masc pump[s],” and an “LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens” that sells a range of “dildos,” “vibrators,” “harnesses,” “anal toys,” “trans-friendly toys,” and “kink & BDSM” equipment. The links include graphic descriptions of sadomasochism, bondage, pornography, and transgressive sex.
Rufo points out, too, that lurid Lurie also provides a guide encouraging schools to adopt a “gender-affirming approach.” His entire report can be read here. In addition, the journalist discussed the topic briefly on the Wednesday edition of Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight (video below).
Tragically, it’s not unheard of for children’s hospitals to offer the body-rending treatments known as “gender-affirming care.” As WCSI reported August 25, “Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. offered ‘gender-affirming’ hysterectomies for kids between the ages of 0-21, a recently deleted webpage shows.” Exactly a week before, Fox informed that “Boston Children’s Hospital deletes sentence saying 17-year-olds can qualify for ‘gender-affirmation’ vaginoplasties.”
That these “hospitals” try scrubbing this information apparently sends a message: They lack confidence in these procedures’ validity. If so, however, why are they offering them to minors? For money?
Rufo mentions that this would be the “cynical” explanation, and it certainly is a factor. Consider that Lurie is just going where its customers are. The process: A hospital encourages MUSS indoctrination in the schools, more kids consequently “identify” as the opposite sex and seek “treatment,” and then the hospital gets more business. Call it Munchausen by proxy for profit.
Yet an ideological motivation also exists, as those most ardently pushing this agenda are zealous MUSS activists. In fact, combining ideological and monetary incentives (and the two usually overlap) yields a potent force.
This MUSS proselytization is effective, too. For example, Britain saw “a 4,400 percent increase in the number of girls who presented with gender dysphoria [GD] within a decade,” wrote Newsweek yesterday. Telling, however, is that 50 years ago, the vast majority (perhaps 90 percent) of GD sufferers were male. Explanation?
One might expect legitimate GD (meaning, an actual, deep-seated psychological problem) to be more prevalent in males because they are the more anomalous sex. They’re more likely than females to be very short or very tall, to suffer from color blindness or hemophilia, or to exhibit great gifts such as genius or an astounding talent. So a rapid rise in girls with GD causing their numbers to dwarf their male counterparts’ indicates that a social phenomenon is operative.
Some people call this “social contagion” or a fad. Whatever you call it, it’s not surprising: Girls are very social beings, more likely than boys to follow the flock and fashions.
Yet the children’s hospitals may want to think twice about the deadly MUSS fashion, as the worm may be turning on the agenda. Case in point: The Tavistock “gender” clinic in Britain has been ordered to close and now faces legal action for blithely prescribing MUSS interventions for kids.
Rightly so, too. The MUSS agenda is wholly unscientific. Its central thesis — that sex is somehow malleable and not a “binary” quality — is scientific obscurantism. As Nobel prize-winning biologist Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard said recently, “All mammals have two sexes, and man is a mammal.”
Gender dysphoria sufferers do exist, but all evidence indicates the problem is psychological. We thus should be trying to change the sufferers’ minds, not their bodies.
