Gender activists have no intention of following the science on child transitions
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a mother in Fairfax County, Virginia, an author, a member of the Coalition for TJ, and the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network. This piece originally appeared on Washington Examiner.
In the face of overwhelming evidence showing the harm of transitioning gender-confused children, an LGBT organization is scheduled to host a transgender camp in Arlington, Virginia, this summer for children as young as 6 years old.
Last week, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service released a report criticizing the use of so-called gender-affirming care for children. Its author, pediatrician and President of the Royal College of Pediatrics Hilary Cass, criticizes medical interventions for gender-questioning minors. She further cautions against socially transitioning children, including pronoun changes in their schools, because it increases the likelihood of the subsequent pursuit of medical intervention.
A study published in February 2024 concluded that most of these children, who usually have coexisting problems and whose identity crisis peaks in early adolescence, eventually become gender-conforming adults.
Several detransitioners — people who have undergone gender-related medical intervention as children and regretted it — have supported both these studies and society’s return to facts. Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who said she was transgender at 13 and had a double mastectomy at 15, said, “I’m thankful that this is finally becoming a mainstream conversation, and people are finally starting to wake up to what we are doing to children.”
Indeed, more and more are waking up to the harms of gender ideology, including the use of unstudied medications that block the onset of puberty.
But while public awareness is increasing significantly, the gender ideology activists are doubling down. For the Cass report, for example, gender clinics in the U.K. colluded and tried to withhold data. And we can expect to continue to hear the usual manipulative extortion about the threat of suicide if we do not affirm children’s fad-inspired gender identities and made-up pronouns.
Then there’s the free gender brainwashing camps, including one in Arlington for children ages 6 to 14 that will take place over two weeks in July. Camp Free2Be is completely funded by SMYAL, an LGBT youth organization located in Washington, D.C.
The camp’s director, Liz Erion, boasts that she has both a transgender child and a nonbinary child. Given the statistical improbability of having either one or the other, what are the odds that she would have both? It makes you wonder how much the camp counselor wielded influence over her own children’s gender identity. It should also make people considering this camp ask themselves how much influence they would like Ms. Erion to have over their children.
The camp is actively searching for junior counselors ages 15 to 18. The only criteria are that they are transgender, nonbinary, or gender diverse, and are committed, enthusiastic, and willing “to get silly and try new things.” It seems that the junior counselors will be present for two weeks to help convince children as young as 6 years old that they are in fact transgender, nonbinary, or gender diverse.
What a strange world we live in, where Child Protective Services are called on parents who are not “gender-affirming,” but a blind eye is turned on a camp trying to convince children to upend their lives over something they are not.
