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quinta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2024
Believe data, not activists: Transgenderism among kids is mostly a fad?
New York Post
Opinion
By Karol Markowicz
Published April 4, 2024, 8:15 p.m. ET
Is transgenderism among kids largely a fad?
It certainly looks that way.
Researchers at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen recently released the results of a landmark 15-year study of 2,700 children starting at age 11.
They tracked the gender non-contentedness of these children over the years and found: “In early adolescence, 11% of participants reported gender non-contentedness. The prevalence decreased with age and was 4% at the last follow-up (around age 26).”
The researchers concluded, “Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development.”
In other words, most of the children in the study who were feeling gender dysphoric in their awkward teenage years had shaken that off and adjusted by early adulthood, and their dysphoria was associated with bad self-esteem and mental-health problems.
This is fully at odds with the policy pushing its way through American schools and medical institutions: Kids who declare themselves transgender, no matter the age, need to be “affirmed,” an idea that sometimes leads to children taking hormone blockers or getting surgery to attempt gender transition.
These interventions can have lifelong consequences, but some doctors aren’t even sure if the child should be informed before they take action.
Leaked documents last month from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health found some doctors don’t think disclosing potential risks is necessary.
As The Post reported, practitioners believe telling a 14-year-old about possible fertility consequences is like talking to a “blank wall.”
A child psychologist said it’s “out of their developmental range to understand the extent to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them.”
If children can’t understand the medical consequences of an entirely elective procedure that isn’t necessary to benefit their health or save their life, perhaps it’s best not to do it?
This shouldn’t be controversial.
Yet we’ve gotten to a place where anyone who doesn’t jump at the chance to “affirm” a child in his or her quest to change genders is a transphobe or worse.
When Gov. Ron DeSantis banned such medical interventions for Florida kids, headlines like Rolling Stone’s “Ron DeSantis Just Took Two Big Steps to Make Trans Lives Illegal” were common.
Reuters noted the law “escalates a Republican political strategy to pursue bills restricting transgender rights.”
Many news stories called it a ban on “transgender treatment” because it banned puberty blockers and hormone therapy for children.
Laws like this are necessary to stem the hysteria that has developed around the topic and to protect mostly girls.
The University of Groningen study found that girls were being hardest hit by this gender dysphoria.
The report notes, “Individuals with an increasing gender non-contentedness more often were female and both an increasing and decreasing trajectory were associated with a lower global self-worth, more behavioral and emotional problems, and a non-heterosexual sexual orientation.”
Abigail Shrier was among the first to identify the social contagion of transgenderism, specifically among teenage girls, in her 2020 book “Irreversible Damage.”
Her latest book, “Bad Therapy,” looks at therapy culture that indulges teenagers in any bad idea they may have.
Perhaps the answer is to not simply accept the words of children.
The “gentle parenting” being pushed right now that makes good parents consider putting their kids on drugs to help them achieve an unattainable sex change needs to run up against tough love and fast.
domingo, 15 de dezembro de 2024
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Macau proposes measure requiring election candidates to pledge loyalty to Basic Law
Macau’s government has proposed amending the law so that candidates of the Legislative Assembly will be required to declare that they uphold the Basic Law and pledge allegiance to the Special Administrative Region.
Macanese lawmaker Chan Chak-mo revealed Thursday that the government’s proposed amendments to the legislative election law include the new declaration requirement. The proposal is similar to the controversial confirmation form introduced by the Hong Kong government during the Legislative Council election in September. Six candidates were barred from running after electoral officers held that they did not uphold the Basic Law.
But different from Hong Kong’s confirmation form, the Macanese version added that those who are “proven in fact” to have failed to uphold Macau’s mini-constitution or swear allegiance to the territory will be barred from standing as candidates.
Potential candidates will also need to declare that they do not belong to any foreign governments or parliaments if the bill is passed. The election committee of the Legislative Assembly will assess whether candidates have breached their declarations.
‘Close loopholes’
Chan said the move would close the loopholes in election laws, broadcaster TDM reported. He added that there was no objection from lawmakers on the committee tasked with reviewing the proposal.
According to online news outlet Macau Concealer, Chan said that statements demanding Macau’s independence and the “overthrowing of whatever” would be sufficient proof that a candidate does not uphold the Basic Law or pledge allegiance to the Macau SAR.
Macanese lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok-cheong said: “As expected, our government is keen to show its loyalty to Beijing by following the Chinese government’s ruling on Hong Kong’s Basic Law and introducing disqualification rules to our own laws.”
Politician Jason Chao of the pro-democracy New Macau Association criticised the government for censoring people’s thoughts and giving too much power to the electoral affairs commission. He said on an online radio show that the lack of objective criteria of the new requirements is problematic.
“If Chief Executive Chui Sai-on insisted on taking his oath in Mandarin even though he is so bad at the language… I don’t think he’d have ‘solemnly’ taken his pledge of allegiance to Macau,” said Chao.
Chao’s party colleague Chiang Meng-hin said: “This is like Iranian elections in which candidates have all been vetted before they can run for elections.”
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