In the latest sign that Democrats refuse to moderate after losing the 2024 elections, Democratic states are going all in on sex changes for children.
Sixteen Democrat-run states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration after President Donald Trump’s executive orders designed to protect children from transgender procedures. The lawsuit claims Trump is “cruelly” targeting transgender children and denying their “very existence.” New York Attorney General Letitia James says Trump is “putting countless lives at risk.”
This is an alternative reality. In the real world, people recognize that children cannot possibly consent to irreversible gender transitions. You cannot flip a light switch to reverse puberty blockers that disrupt a child’s natural aging process, or reverse pumping children full of cross-sex hormones that alter their body chemistry. You certainly cannot reverse surgical procedures such as cutting the breasts off teenage girls with body dysmorphia who have been convinced that they are actually boys.
These procedures are irreversible and physically and mentally damaging, especially for children who are told that sex changes can cure their discomfort with their bodies during puberty. Contrary to James’s assertion, there is also no proof that pushing children through these sex changes reduces their chances of suicide. The most comprehensive studies indicate there is no change in suicidality for transgender people regardless of whether they surgically transition or not.
Again, all of this is in service of an incoherent ideology that asserts that gender is a social construct that has no basis in biology, and yet children must have their biology chemically and surgically altered to allow them to be their “authentic selves” or some such nonsense. This is why a sizable majority of people oppose sex change procedures for minors, and why even liberal Europe has reversed course on sex changes for children. Democrats prioritizing transgender people above almost all else is precisely why the party suffered at the polls in November, and Democratic governors and attorneys general are pushing full steam ahead to make sure little Timmy can be on puberty blockers and estrogen before graduating eighth grade.
Democrats are all in on helping doctors take advantage of scared parents and self-conscious children for expensive sex change procedures, sending those children down a permanent road of physical troubles and no alleviation of any mental problems they may be facing. All of this is done in service of a delusional, anti-science ideology that has convinced the Democratic Party that it is the civil rights movement of our time, and not the disastrous, damaging movement that it will be remembered as years from now.