Children are at risk when they exist only to enact parents’ beliefs

Oct 27, 2016 by

by Denyse O’Leary, MercatorNet:

In many societies today, children are not the future so much as their parents’ self-realization projects. For example, what are we to make of the news from Australia that a four-year-old is receiving help to undergo a sex change? An autistic American teen got her breasts amputated, in a “trans” phase when she turned eighteen. Pope Francis, we are told, is now no longer “cool “ because he does not believe that vulnerable children should be indoctrinated in transgender theory.

Attitudes have hardened. Recently, we were informed that students and faculty at Johns Hopkins have demanded that the university repudiate a massively documented study that showed that genetics plays no significant role in whether people consider themselves straight or gay (or transgender). The students and faculty consider the study, Special Report at The New Atlantis (A Journal of Technology & Society) Fall 2016, by Johns Hopkins biostatistician Lawrence S. Mayer and Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Paul R. McHugh, “a misguided, misinformed attack on LGBT communities.”

The study’s executive summary provides a helpful structure for considering the claims of childhood transsexualism and makes for an interesting comparison with “recovered memories” syndrome. Are these “transgender tots” another instance of poster children for a social belief with little science backing?

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