There’s a fundamentalist Christian preacher in rural Mississippi named Pastor Bob. One day, Pastor Bob declares that several of the children in his church are possessed by demons. There’s only one cure: Pastor Bob must “rape the demons out of ‘em” in a special rape ritual.
You can scarcely believe what you are hearing. You have never encountered anything so hideously evil. You go to the police but the police tell you that Anti-Demon Care is perfectly legal. It’s actually life-saving medical care. You’re a bigot because you oppose Anti-Demon Care (ADC). Every Fortune 500 corporation and every mainstream media outlet affirms that the “rape the demons out of ‘em” ritual is a good thing and Pastor Bob is a hero.
People you know - people who you thought were sane - treat the “rape the demons out of ‘em” ritual as if it were a morally complex issue. Your friends and family say they understand your concern about Anti-Demon Care, but they get upset with you when you say that Pastor Bob is evil. Using the word “rape” to describe Anti-Demon Care marks you as a far right shock-jock and is “unhelpful language.”
Podcasters who oppose anti-demon care for children and are nominally on your side want to talk about the “harmful side effects” of Anti-Demon Care. They say we need to “wait for the evidence” about the long-term effects of the “rape the demons out of ‘em” ritual.
This analogy is lurid, but it’s actually too charitable to transgenderism. Transgender genital surgery is much worse than rape. An adult raping a child is a terrible thing. An adult taking a knife and slicing up a child’s genitals is much worse1.
People who got excited about the Cass Report are morally suspect. If you think that we needed a systematic literature review to know that it is bad to do transgender procedures to children, then you have lost your mind. You should not need a peer-reviewed study to tell you that raping and sexually mutilating children is wrong.
It’s unacceptable to be a moderate about the trans kids issue. You should be extremely against it. This issue is a clear moral black and white, as clear as any issue ever has been.
I apologize to the people of Mississippi and Southerners in general for using them in this grotesque analogy. Our ruling class is full of anti-Middle American and especially anti-Southern bigots. Sometimes you need to reverse the politics to get people to see things clearly.
Yes, this does happen. Transgender celebrity Jazz Jennings had penis-mutilation surgery at age 17. Singer Kim Petras had penis-mutilation surgery at age 16. Double mastectomies on minor girls are much more common and have been performed on girls as young as 15 as young as 13.
Well put. If you thought you needed a scientific study to be justified in calling child mutilation evil, then you are part of the problem.
This is a perfect example of elites shoving insanity down the throat of the rest of us. The majority of American oppose transgender "treatment" for minors. No doubt though the population could lose it's commonsense on this issue if it is pushed for hard and long enough.