Lost Boys: Transgender ‘Care’ is Castration by Another Name
By Jonathon Van Maren, European Conservative.
In a recent interview with Brandon Showalter of The Christian Post, Forrest Smith told his story. After a struggle with mental illness and complicated family circumstances, Smith began hormone therapy at age 20 and lived for five years identifying as a woman in Portland, Oregon, relying largely on subsidized housing to survive. At that point, he went the rest of the way. He got breast implants “which permanently damaged my chest” and a double orchiectomy (the surgical removal of both testicles) “which permanently sterilized me—it is surgical castration.” He regretted the decision immediately and began to detransition months later.
Smith was on the list for other transgender surgeries, including the surgical removal of his penis and a “vaginoplasty,” the attempted creation of a neo-vagina, but decided not to go through with them. He was promptly dumped by his therapists, and medical experts lost interest in his plight. Several of them told him that he needed to “finish the job.” After a sustained search, he found a good male counselor to work with. The greatest betrayal, in his view, was his church community, which had celebrated his gender dysphoria and encouraged him to transition. Despite this harrowing endeavour, Smith says he’s still able to be grateful that his experience was not worse. “I’m glad no more damage was done to my body. I did come out of it alive.”
It is easy to forget what the transgender debate is really about, cloaked as it is in the Orwellian language of “gender-affirming care.” In fact, we are castrating men and boys. Despite how grotesque these details are, it is essential that we understand what trans activists and their political allies are talking about when they advocate “gender-affirming care.” They speak with a vocabulary that is carefully curated to hide the truth. There is nothing “affirming” about this ‘care.’ Understanding the mutilation that young people are experiencing is necessary to expose the evils of the trans movement, which dominates our cultural debates.
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