“More awareness” aka frenetic marketing
More than 300 transgender children a year are now starting on a course of puberty-blocking drugs, figures seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme show.
One of the transgender children we have been following for four years has now begun her treatment, which gives youngsters time to decide if they want to live as a man or a woman. “I’m happy I’ve been given [the drugs] because now I know that I won’t grow facial hair. I just don’t want a beard – I’m a girl,” says 11-year-old Jessica.
So the BBC is admitting it started “following” this deluded child when he was seven years old.
The UK’s main centre specialising in gender issues in under-18s is the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, based in London and Leeds. The number of under-18s who visited the clinic in the last year has risen by 25% to 2,519 – around 50 a week.
Doctors there say there is no single explanation for the increase but there is growing recognition of transgender people in society and more awareness of treatment options.
In large part thanks to institutions like the BBC that actively promote the “treatment options” aka medical malpractice.
One of the transgender children we have been following for four years has now begun her treatment, which gives youngsters time to decide if they want to live as a man or a woman. “I’m happy I’ve been given [the drugs] because now I know that I won’t grow facial hair. I just don’t want a beard – I’m a girl,” says 11-year-old Jessica.
This is so fucked up: The line “has now begun her treatment” made me think they were following a girl “transitioning” to becoming a boy. Oops, wrong. Jessica eschews beard.
How “Jessica” knows at 11 that “she” doesn’t want a beard is beyond the ken of normal human thought. I’m sure she’s probably adamant that she doesn’t want to ejaculate, either. Sorry for the coarseness . . .
I remember being uncomfortable as a teenager with all the changes in my body. Adam’s apple, voice deepening, stubble…I was the first boy in my class to get chest hair, and the other boys would mock me during PE classes, calling me “the Gorilla” and “the Neanderthal”.
If, at that age, someone in authority had offered me drugs to stop me going through puberty, I would have probably taken them.