Just a few years ago, England ran the largest pediatric gender clinic in the world. The sun never set on the British national Gender Identity Service empire’s processing of young bodies. Because it was treating so many children (see the graph in my book, Across the Kitchen Table), with questionable results, in 2020, it hit the pause button to review. The Gender Identity Service shuttered the clinic. They then asked Dr. Hilary Cass, past president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and one-time chair of the British Academy of Childhood Disability, to lead a task force to investigate the efficacy and safety of the current treatment. That treatment would be encouraging gender-distressed boys and girls to imitate the complementary gender by means of cross-dressing and puberty blockers followed by hormone treatments and surgery.
Dr. Cass examined over a hundred studies on hormonal treatments of minors. After four years of study, Dr. Cass released the report, which the public can read. It is over 400 pages, though, so you can also read a group of doctors’ succinct summary. The long and short of it is, there is no good science backing up the procedures. “Gender Affirming Care,” not to be confused with the popular website of a similar sounding name, died in Great Britain.
In light of the weighty source of this news, you might expect America to at least slow down and re-think its procedures in ushering children into these chambers of chemicals and cutting. But the once loyal colonies show no sign of respecting the crown. California, one of its leading states, and one which often does lead other states in adopting legislation, just last month passed into law a bill allowing (and, the way it will work, encouraging) public school teachers to hide from parents if their child adopts an alternate gender during school hours.
Granted, currently twelve states have banned or severely limited such treatments. But that is only twelve, one short of the number of original colonies (though not the same colonies). America has grown since then. After the British NHS announcement that they were closing their clinic based on the science, Scotland, Sweden and Finland also stopped recommending such treatment for minors. Then followed Norway, Demark, Ireland and Italy. The American government and medical establishment, however, soldier on.
Why would this be? Well, why dump all that tea into Boston harbor? England, with its socialized medicine, is not a business. But, in America, trans is a two billion dollar industry that
promises to double in the next eight years. So don’t expect American medical militia to simply lay down arms. Instead, expect severe criticism, coming from the likes of Yale Law School and, just this week, Scientific American.
America is rekindling its ancient rebellion against England. Once again, George against George. The question to ask is: are they in the right this time?