Biden's support for gender mutilation

 Washington Examiner:

The United States was an outlier on masking children in schools during COVID-19. Its policies caused irreparable educational and developmental harm to an entire generation of children. Now the U.S. is in danger of becoming an outlier again, this time on so-called “gender-affirming” healthcare, which is really just a politically correct way of saying "mutilating children."

Another entire generation of children is at risk of real harm from the progressive movement. Worse, President Joe Biden wants to ship this radical gender ideology overseas.

Early in the COVID-19 epidemic, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reasonably recognized that there was no science showing that the harms of masking children outweighed the health benefits.

Unfortunately, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention willfully ignored evidence showing that masking harmed children. There were studies showing that masking marginally helped slow the spread of COVID-19, and that was considered enough to make everyone, children included, wear a mask at all times — no exceptions. Now we know that was a big mistake. Masking does harm children , and the benefits from wearing a mask for children were never there.

Unfortunately, the progressive health establishment is far too arrogant to learn from such mistakes. It is now pushing an even more harmful, if more narrowly felt, form of “healthcare" that will irreparably harm children and lead to lawsuits down the line.

For young children who do not feel they fit the prevailing stereotypes of their sex, the Left is now prescribing immediate surgical mutilations and chemical castrations instead of patience and talk therapy. Again, Europeans are ahead of the U.S. right now in recognizing the danger of these new “treatments” to children’s health. The United Kingdom recently shut down its only youth gender clinic after it noticed a 1,000% increase in patient referrals over a decade, an inordinate number of whom were either girls seeking to become boys or boys on the autism spectrum.
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Pandering to gender dysphoria is an awful mistake that damages people for a lifetime.  It is not remotely healthy.