The latest adolescent fad being promoted on social media is transgenderism. Unfortunately it is a fad that can do permanent damage to a young person who simply follows what he or she sees on social media. Recently “60 Minutes” did a segment about state regulations on transgenderism and included people who as teenagers underwent medical procedures to change their sex and then regretted it later.<\/p>\n
Today Legal Insurrection<\/a> posted an article about the reaction to the “60 Minutes” segment.<\/p>\n The article notes:<\/p>\n A recent 60 Minutes segment talked about red states denying hormones and surgery to transgender youth. However, the news program made the grave mistake of including a part about young people who regret transitioning.<\/strong><\/p>\n The left is furious that 60 Minutes included dissenting voices.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is one of the stories included in the “60 Minutes” piece:<\/p>\n One young woman described her experience after she went on hormones, had her breasts removed, and then detransitioned all in one year. Transcript via the Daily Wire:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesley Stahl: Did the therapist not question you about how deep the feeling was and what it was stemming from?<\/strong><\/p>\n Grace Lidinsky-Smith: She didn\u2019t go \u2014 really go into what my gender dysphoria might\u2019ve been stemming from. We only did a few sessions.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesley Stahl (NARRATION): Because she was over 18 and didn\u2019t need parental consent, she says she merely signed an informed consent form at a clinic and got hormone shots.<\/strong><\/p>\n Grace Lidinsky-Smith: They asked me, \u201cSo, why do you wanna go on testosterone?\u201d And I said, \u201cWell, being a woman just isn\u2019t working for me anymore.\u201d And they said, \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesley Stahl: So, that was that. You got your prescription for testosterone?<\/strong><\/p>\n Grace Lidinsky-Smith: Uh-huh. Yup.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesley Stahl (NARRATION): Just four months after she started testosterone, she says she was approved for a mastectomy, what\u2019s called top surgery, that she told us was traumatic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesley Stahl: You know, I\u2019m kinda surprised because, based on everything you\u2019ve said up to now, I would\u2019ve thought you\u2019d have a great sense of relief.<\/strong><\/p>\n Grace Lidinsky-Smith: I started to have a really disturbing sense that like a part of my body was missing, almost a ghost limb feeling about being like, there\u2019s something that should be there. And the feeling really surprised me but it was really hard to deny.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesley Stahl (NARRATION):And so she detransitioned by going off testosterone and then went back to the clinic and, she says, complained to the doctor that the process didn\u2019t follow the WPATH guidelines.<\/strong><\/p>\n Grace Lidinsky-Smith: I can\u2019t believe that I transitioned and detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of, like, less than one year. It\u2019s completely crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article also includes one reaction to the segment:<\/p>\n Jezebel<\/strong><\/a> called the report an \u201cattack\u201d on trans kids:<\/strong><\/p>\n 60 Minutes\u2019 Segment About Republican Attacks On Trans Kids Was Itself an Attack On Trans Kids<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This is not an issue that needs both-sidesing. But on Sunday, CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes did something even worse\u2014the primetime show decided to air a segment that, while ostensibly addressing the Republican-led assault on trans young people\u2019s health care, ended up focusing heavily on the favorite topic of conservatives who would like nothing more than for trans people to not exist, and who wish to paint transition as a painful, regret-suffused process\u2014people who have detransitioned.<\/strong><\/p>\n First of all, Republicans are not attacking trans kids, they are simply trying to prevent teenagers from doing something irreversible during a period in their lives when their decision-making process is not fully developed. Secondly, this is not health care–it is serious surgery that cannot be reversed and needs to be entered into with extreme care. In a few years there will be many young adults walking around seriously regretting what they have done with no way to correct their mistake. That is sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest adolescent fad being promoted on social media is transgenderism. Unfortunately it is a fad that can do permanent damage to a young person who simply follows what he or she sees on social media. Recently “60 Minutes” did … Continue reading