Alasdair Gunn, vice director of advocacy Genspect, warns that the gender industry has “parasitized” people’s emotions by pushing the transgender agenda, including hyping up claims about suicidality risk among people who feel different about their sex.
“It’s an industry which has managed to rig all sorts of quite deeply emotional things in order to serve itself by bringing statutes of limitations down to absurdly short lengths so that if you regret your surgery after three years, in some states in the United States, it’s too late. Three years. So, you’ve got the rest of your life with a body part that you don’t want.”
“So, it’s parasitized people’s emotions.”
Mr. Gunn’s Genspect is an organization seeking to broaden treatment options available for people questioning their gender beyond just “gender-affirming care.”
“I think the best way to think about this script is, it’s like if your child found a poem that resonated. The feeling is probably real. But the information in it is not real. So when they say ‘I’m at risk of suicide,’ this is something they’ve learned from their friends.”
“Now, we’ve actually no evidence of that. It’s a very complicated and thorny issue, but there’s no evidence of that. They tell one another, and they believe it, that they’re at great risk of suicide if they don’t transition.”
However, “We don’t take all bisexuals and say, ‘Right, we must rush you to a doctor,’” he said. “That’s not necessarily a medical issue. And it’s certainly not evidence of a bodily problem, a physiological problem.”
In December, a new treatment guide released by the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (GETA), an organization of professionals from the United States and several other countries, called the “transition-or-die” scenario used to justify transgender treatment for minors as inaccurate and “ethically questionable.”
“Children as young as 9–12 may be waiving their future right to sexual function and reproduction long before they are mature enough to comprehend the importance of these functions,” the guide warned.
Manipulating Youngsters
In his interview, Mr. Gunn also highlighted how vulnerable children can be manipulated online by people who consistently affirm that they could be transgender.Such vulnerable children may share information with people who encourage them to see themselves as transgender while also insisting that “doubt is transphobic.”
“They’re very often told the only people who doubt they’re trans are trans people, which when you think about it as a cognitive sinkhole. Because by that, as soon as you think, ‘right, well, am I trans,’ It’s like the ground is gone beneath you, and you’re trans.”
Mr. Gunn pointed to the presence of predators who may use gender identity confusion among children to manipulate them.
“With this gender identity, it’s very, very clear that there’s something which has allowed predatory men to be a lot bolder. And to exploit this idea that, ‘well, the adults around you don’t understand your gender identity, they don’t understand that you’re trans. I do.’”
“And it’s been a disaster. And it’s an unrolling and unfolding disaster for these young people of both sexes. Because there are no guardrails, there is no way to keep predatory men out.”
Talking about “gender dysphoria,” Mr. Gunn said that the term is being applied to a wide range of situations, from youngsters who feel alienated from their own sex to children who embrace the term simply because they want to be big on TikTok.
“You hear young people using this phrase dysphoria, and they'll say things like, ‘I had a fight with my friend, and then I got really dysphoric.’ You didn’t, you got sad. But that’s fine because I get sad if I fight with my friends. I’m sure you do. It’s not a medical condition.”
Protecting Minors
Several states are taking action to protect children from transgender procedures. In July, the Republican-controlled state legislature in Louisiana overturned the governor’s veto on the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act.”The bill prohibits healthcare professionals from offering transgender procedures like hormone treatments, puberty-blocking drugs, and gender reassignment surgery to minors in the state.
This month, the Republican-led North Carolina legislature voted to override the state governor’s veto on House Bill 808, which also prohibits the gender transition of minors.
Thirty-two percent supported protecting the rights of trans adults but implementing “stronger regulations on puberty blockers, transition surgeries, and sports participation for transgender minors.”
Only 26 percent supported a more radical view that states “should protect all transgender youth by providing access to puberty blockers and transition surgeries if desired.”
