In my last VIP article, I mentioned that the information about the dangers of transgenderism have been apparent since research first started around it long ago, but the left had done its level best to make sure the dangers it presented never saw the light of day.
As my colleague Katie Jerkovich recently wrote, a "gender center" whistleblower gave Fox News a behind the curtain peek as to what was happening at these clinics where these gender-confused kids were getting help. After a transgender person shot up a Catholic school, taking the lives of two children and injuring 17 more people, Jamie Reed spoke with Fox News' Jesse Waters about what she saw during her time at these clinics:
"What I saw was that we were harming these kids," Reed said. "They were not getting better. Often, their mental health was getting worse."
"We were tearing apart families," she added. "And we also have to recognize that gender ideology tears apart other facets of our social, of our society. It tears at sports, and families, and safety for women, and safety for families and kids."
"And so the ideology as a whole, to me, became something that I was participating in harming the exact same patients my job was supposed to protect," Reed continued. "To make them better. I was making them worse."
Read: 'Gender Center' Whistleblower Tears Apart Affirmative Narrative After MN Shooting
This lines up well with previous reports from others who were addressing the gender confusion of children, including one of the pioneers of gender affirming care, Finnish Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala.
Back in January 2024, Kaltiala was one of the doctors who was tasked with overseeing the administering of this "care," and like Reed, noticed that what she was doing wasn't making anyone better. In fact, it was only making established mental illnesses already present in most of these kids worse:
We expected a small number of boys who had persistently declared they were girls. Instead, 90 percent of our patients were girls, mainly 15 to 17 years old, and instead of being high-functioning, the vast majority presented with severe psychiatric conditions.
Some came from families with multiple psychosocial problems. Most of them had challenging early childhoods marked by developmental difficulties, such as extreme temper tantrums and social isolation. Many had academic troubles. It was common for them to have been bullied—but generally not regarding their gender presentation. In adolescence they were lonely and withdrawn. Some were no longer in school, instead spending all their time alone in their room. They had depression and anxiety, some had eating disorders, many engaged in self-harm, a few had experienced psychotic episodes. Many—many—were on the autism spectrum.
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The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating. We thought, what is this? Because there wasn’t a hint in studies that this could happen. Sometimes the young people insisted their lives had improved and they were happier. But as a medical doctor, I could see that they were doing worse. They were withdrawing from all social activities. They were not making friends. They were not going to school. We continued to network with colleagues in different countries who said they were seeing the same things.
Kaltiala published her findings back in 2015, but instead of the global medical community — who were experiencing similar results — getting the word out that this wasn't working, they were told to keep it quiet.
Read: A Pioneer of 'Gender Affirming Care' for Kids Is Now Sounding the Alarm Against It
In fact, hiding the negative results of "gender affirming care" and "transitioning" was something of a common thread among the scientific community.
Back in 2018, I reported on Professor Miroslav Djordjevic, who was the world's leading expert on genital reconstructive surgery. What began as a small trickle of people coming back to have their genitals reconstructed after transitioning became a tidal wave he could hardly keep up with. This got the attention of James Caspian, a psychotherapist who specializes in working with transgender people. He wanted to study the sudden surge in people wanting to detransition back to their original bodies.
For this, he went to Bath Spa University for funding, and initially, he was approved. However, after the ethics board got ahold of his case, they shut him down before he could even get started. According to Caspian, the university was too afraid to let the research happen:
According to Caspian, the university initially approved his proposal to research “detransitioning”. He then amassed some preliminary findings that suggested a growing number of young people – particularly young women – were transitioning their gender and then regretting it.
But after submitting the more detailed proposal to Bath Spa, he discovered he had been referred to the university ethics committee, which rejected it over fears of criticism that might be directed towards the university. Not least on social media from the powerful transgender lobby.
Meanwhile, Djordjevic reported his patients were becoming younger and younger, going from their 40s to their early 20s. The rise in detransitioners was, again, kept completely silent, and thanks to the transgender lobby, scientific research was denied from ever happening. Not that it didn't already exist thanks to Kaltiala, but you've never heard of it likely until now, or unless you've been a loyal reader of mine for years.
Even Planned Parenthood whistleblowers have spoken up in the past. In 2021, I reported how a PP whistleblower noticed exactly what Kaltiala did about the people coming in to get their "gender affirming care":
After a time, the woman did see a pattern of the teen girls having suffered some form of abuse. Many were suffering from huge amounts of anxiety and depression and some even had self-harm scars on their arms. The woman told Shrier that they were instructed not to address the marks on their arms, just affirm the dysphoria and move on.
When she would present the girls a piece of paper that would detail the risks associated with hormone treatment, she noted that most of them didn’t really bother to read it. It seemed more like the trendy thing to do according to the woman, and Shrier was struck most about how this seemed more like a fun day trip for the girls than an actually serious moment in their lives
Read: Planned Parenthood Found a New Way to Profit off of Hurting Children and It Explains a Lot
As you can see, this is not a small issue. In fact, it's a major one that the left has done its level best to hide from the public at every turn, whether it's false reporting or prohibiting research from being done.
Why?
Because transgenderism is very useful to the left. It gives them power of a large group of people that it can then use to keep themselves in power. It's not tinfoil hat material. The transgender movement is, and always was, a way the left kept people in society behaving a certain way, whether it be in the workplace or just speaking to one another in public. Entire corporations were bending over backward to accommodate, or at least celebrate, transgenderism and queer life. Television shows and movies were constantly displaying it in some capacity.
You were to celebrate it or be destroyed. Those were your options.
But this led to suicides, depression, and innocent children dying left and right.
Even now, the left is doing its level best to take the attention off of themselves and put it on everyone else, but the facts are clear. The info has always been there that this was destructive on an ungodly level, yet they pushed it and pushed it. Elected officials throw tantrums on house floors, lieutenant governors wear shirts about protecting trans kids that double as threats, and the pleas of the affected go ignored.
All so the left can have their little power narrative.
