Spend any time whatsoever in trans spaces and one of the first things you’ll notice is the rampant infantilization.
There are grown adults snuggling with cuddly toys and blaming every kind of negative emotion and social transgression on going through “second puberty” (sorry: still not a thing!). They try to recreate the childhoods and rites of passage they never experienced: giggly sleepovers, bubble-gum pink, sparkly lipgloss and painted nails, truth or dare, learning how to shave and tie ties. They cling to childish hobbies and interests, like Pokémon or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or My Little Ponies, or overidentify with the underage aesthetics of anime. Middle-aged men dress up like schoolgirls, tugging frilly knee socks up over their bony joints and tying bows in their hair.
Trans-identified adults fantasize about do-overs: if only they’d been allowed to transition before puberty struck. Everything would have been different. The fantasy of starting over and blocking puberty helps keep the promise of transition intact when it would otherwise fall apart. Transition didn’t fail because it was a mistake. Transition failed because this pharmaceutical intervention was withheld from me as a child. That, and children make a more appealing face for a movement that struggles with optics. Thus, activists enlist children in an adult cause, trading children’s open futures for talking points and political cover. Activists rally around children and conceal what’s unsavory about the movement behind their innocence.
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There’s the expectation from many activists that their feelings ought to be handled with kid gloves and—indeed—far too many grown-ups end up placating activists as though they were fussy toddlers.
As is the case with so many of the pieces of discerning writing about this issue reading this made me faintly ill. Most people are starting to hear about the complications and medical malpractice (and abdication of scientific researchers and journalists) regarding youth sex change prescribing and procedures.
But what about the rates of autogynephilia among adult trans-identified men? What about the rates of sexual perversion and criminal offending in this population? What about the behavior of psychopathic men who respond to incentives to label themselves ‘trans’ and therefore gain a new identity or access to women’s and children’s spaces? These are absolutely outstanding issues. I still have read nothing about them in the legacy media.