What Is a Woman? : One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation
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nearly two-thirds (62.5 percent) were diagnosed with some sort of mental health or neurodevelopmental disability disorder before they transitioned.
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“Do you worry that minors just don’t understand enough about themselves—they’re not neurologically developed enough yet to make permanent, life-altering decisions?” I asked Dr. Bowers. “Absolutely not. No. Absolutely not,” he quickly retorted. “As a sixteen/seventeen-year-old, have I changed attitudes and made mistakes from back then and done crazy things that I never would have done if I hadn’t had the benefit of time? Absolutely. But when it comes to a core principle like gender identity, oh no. Gender identity is a core essential. That is, like, who you are.”
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a quote attributed to Nobel Prize winning economist Ronald Coase: “If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything.”
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The school system isn’t just targeting children, though. Teachers who fail to toe the line face such a hostile work environment that many choose to leave rather than become complicit in the indoctrination.
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They don’t claim to want a new world order. Their rhetoric is understated. They just want to end discrimination. They just want acceptance. They just want respect. But their actions and laws and rules reveal grander ambitions. Their regime of anti-discrimination discriminates against women and attempts to end any distinction between male and female. Their desire for acceptance demands affirmation and bans dissent. They require your respect, but they refuse to respect the dictates of biology, the innocence of children, or the most elemental and sacred bond in all of human existence—the bond ...more
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Almost without knowing it, they learn the transgender vocabulary, and in ways large and small, it begins to shape how they see the entire world.