There is a backlog of unheard stories that deserve a few lines of comment.

Seventy Percent Increase

According to The Daily Signal, there was a 70% increase in gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2020-2021. There are several reasons.

First, gender ideology is largely a social contagion. It is a fad with social consequences like anorexia/bulimia and cutting. It is reinforced by social media and the incumbent peer pressure that accompanies venturing into this ideology. It also doesn’t hurt that identifying as a “victim class” (LGBTQ+) offers some power to these children who otherwise are struggling with normal growing-up issues.

Second, the public schools are encouraging and even pushing kids to adhere to the gender ideology at increasingly younger ages. The motivations for this are many. Having a child who identifies as trans is allowing ever more government usurpation of parental rights. Having a child identify as trans also means he or she is fast-tracked into the medical hamster wheel that screws up the child’s life but thoroughly enriches the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. This indoctrination of children by teachers who are either LGBTQ+ or consider themselves “allies” tries to stigmatize normal heterosexual relationships as weird and cringy as opposed to being the ones that actually promise a continuation of the human race.

Studies do indicate that 90% of children who have honest-to-goodness gender dysphoria and are not encouraged to transition in any way reconcile with their bodies and accept themselves in adulthood. So the indoctrination pushing children to identify as transgender is serving to further confuse and hurt them.

School Indoctrination

President Joe Biden’s administration has actively declared transgenderism to be a civil rights issue. New Jersey has now determined that schools will be penalized for not teaching about gender identity. According to The Daily Caller: “Under the new standards, by the end of fifth grade, students should be able to explain the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation. The 10-year-olds must be taught to ‘describe gender-role stereotypes’ and how those stereotypes affect themselves and those around them.”

This harkens back to a powerful piece by columnist Laura Hollis regarding condoms for fifth graders in Chicago. She points out: “Most 10 and 11-year-olds have not even gone through puberty. They do not have secondary sex characteristics. And yet, according to [Chicago doctor Kenneth] Fox, these children are developmentally capable of having sex and of making the responsible choice to use a condom during sexual intercourse,” which Fox puts among the “health decisions” kids can then make. Teaching elementary kids how to have sex is a lot of things, but it’s most definitely not a “healthy decision.”

It is also inappropriate to invite drag queens to “perform” for high school Gay-Straight Alliance clubs, a point that an outraged mom made clear to her Iowa school board. She arrived at the school board meeting dressed in an outfit that one of the drag queens wore. When board members protested, she said: “Does this outfit make you turn your head? Does this outfit seem appropriate for anybody here to see? This is what the man dressed like in front of our kids. So if this makes your head spin — if this pisses you off in any way, shape, or form — it should. Because I’m embarrassed to stand here in the outfit that I am in today, but I have a point to prove — that this outfit should not be ever accepted in our schools anywhere.”

Grooming Behavior

There is an even darker side to this trans agenda. Not every person who identifies as “trans” is a pedophile, but the activists and a minority of pedophiles within this identity group are acting like sexual groomers.

Amy Cannava, chair of the National Association Of School Psychologists’ (NASP) LGBTQI2-S Committee, openly talked about rehoming queer teens in a meeting with the Pride Liberation Project — the group that has taken credit for organizing the high schooler walkout in Virginia last week.

According to them, queer kids who need rehoming ranged from those who had been kicked out of their parents’ house to kids who simply did not like their parents. This rehoming would entail giving the child money, a new identity, helping them disappear so their parents couldn’t find them, and finding them new homes with “queer friendly” adults. There really isn’t a way to read this that doesn’t sound like child exploitation. It’s all of a piece, though, with the radical Left’s overall agenda to pit child against parent and destroy families. This rehoming idea is simply making it much easier for the vulnerable — the children — to be preyed upon by those who don’t actually care about them. It should absolutely be stopped.

Puberty Blockers

On the medical front of the transgender wars, puberty blockers are being distributed at a much higher rate than ever before. Planned Parenthood is claiming that puberty blockers are “safe.” Some pharmaceutical companies are refusing to even do safety trials on drugs like Lupron — a drug used to chemically castrate criminal sex offenders.

Detransition Testimonies

Meanwhile, the first wave of detransitioners is starting to raise a ruckus and sound the alarm about medical transitions. Last week, a letter was written to the DOJ asking for it to have Big Tech silence sources like political pundit Matt Walsh or Libs of TikTok, both of whom have drawn attention to children’s hospitals that are preforming “gender affirming” surgeries to minors. Several detransitioners responded by penning a letter of their own to the DOJ. They write that silencing voices like Walsh is “nothing more than an attempt to silence the reasonable voices of concerned critics calling for a more cautious approach to experimental medical practices impacting vulnerable children.” They further point out that their own voices are being largely ignored, and their voices are perhaps the most valuable of all.

There are so many more stories, but the bottom line in all of them is that the Left’s lies are hurting our children and our society.