I’m pleased to announce that beginning today, NRPLUS subscribers will have exclusive early access to a new National Review podcast miniseries, The Detransitioners, before it becomes more widely available.
A passion project months in the making, the podcast features the stories of three brave women who were driven down the rabbit hole of gender ideology by activist medical professionals. They emerged emotionally and physically scarred, but ready to share their stories in the hopes that other young people might avoid following the same path.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE DETRANSITIONERS
This project comes on the heels of my Detransitioners profile series at National Review, which resonated with so many readers that we decided to expand our coverage in a new format.
Formerly confined to the fringes of academia, the notion that gender is malleable has swept the country.
About 15,000 kids and teens were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the U.S. in 2017, according to a Reuters analysis. In 2021, that number nearly tripled.
During those five years, almost 5,000 children received puberty blockers to suppress their natural sex characteristics. And 14,000 children received hormone injections to mimic their preferred sex. Between 2019 and 2021, 700 kids had double mastectomies, the removal of healthy breasts to masculinize the chest.
There’s been an explosion of gender clinics across the country to meet the demand for these procedures.
Publications such as the New York Times have claimed that the satisfaction rate for these surgeries and prescriptions, described euphemistically as gender-affirming care, is quite high.
The exact long-term success rate is impossible to pin down, especially because many of these procedures are just happening now, which means we won’t know their true impact for years.
But the number of detransitioners coming out of the woodwork suggests that gender ideologues and their allies in the press aren’t telling the full story.
In developing this podcast, I spoke to detransitioners and medical professionals who dissented from their field’s consensus on the matter to see what lurked beneath the surface.
As the detransitioners relayed their experiences, which in every case included some form of childhood abuse and neglect, I started noticing persistent themes. Their unfiltered testimony, in conjunction with that of medical professionals alarmed by the behavior of their colleagues, reveals the disturbing underbelly of the gender craze.
While much is still unknown about the subject, one thing is crystal clear: The medical industry, left-wing media, and trans activists are ignoring the sources of struggle that often lead to youth gender transition. Their negligence is producing an army of victims, who are about to bring about a legal reckoning never before seen in history.
This podcast is dedicated to the younger Americans growing up in this jarring world. It’s a world in which a tiny but influential minority of adults are foisting their political paranoias onto children. It’s a world in which young minds are being poisoned by the internet, ideologically captured education, and medical professionals who swore to do no harm.
Detransitioners now deserve advocates whom they never had during their gender-identity crises. Their words are a warning to kids and parents navigating today’s moral confusion. We should heed it.
Detransitioners Speak Out: Hear Their Stories on NR’s New Podcast
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I’m pleased to announce that beginning today, NRPLUS subscribers will have exclusive early access to a new National Review podcast miniseries, The Detransitioners, before it becomes more widely available.
A passion project months in the making, the podcast features the stories of three brave women who were driven down the rabbit hole of gender ideology by activist medical professionals. They emerged emotionally and physically scarred, but ready to share their stories in the hopes that other young people might avoid following the same path.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE DETRANSITIONERS
This project comes on the heels of my Detransitioners profile series at National Review, which resonated with so many readers that we decided to expand our coverage in a new format.
Formerly confined to the fringes........
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