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“There’s a saying in medicine that goes, “when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras.” Meaning always opt for the most plausible explanation first.
So let’s apply that to the enormous surge in adolescent girls identifying as transgender in the past decade.
Option 1:
All throughout human history, there have been girls who showed no sign of gender distress during childhood who suddenly at puberty realised that they were actually boys, but modern medicine had yet to be invented so they had to suffer the lifelong agony of being trapped in the wrong-sexed body. Curiously, not one ever gave voice to this pain.
Then, only when the caring, benevolent medical industrial complex invented the concept of transsexualism and out of the goodness of their hearts made puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries available were these tortured souls able to embrace their true authentic selves.
As well, miraculously, the modern trans rights movement began in 2014 and achieved immediate and complete societal acceptance of transgender people, so all of these boys trapped in female bodies felt comfortable coming out en masse starting in 2015.
Or, option 2:
It’s an internet-fuelled social contagion on steroids.
Incredibly, in gender clinics all over North America, doctors are still opting for zebras.”
Let’s think of horses in 2025, for the sake of the children and adults who need to foreground reality and not gender fantasy this fine New Year.
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