The longer I live, the more I have come to recognize the wisdom in the divine order of human development and thriving, and how badly we have mucked it up. The social contagion of transgenderism is proof of this, and especially the disease of transing young people, whose bodies, brains, and sexual development are not fully formed. Transitioning these young people is a terrible crime against that order, and the young person is the one who has to suffer the cost for decisions made on their behalf that should never have been made.
For over a decade, we have had craven and misguided doctors and counselors who mislead or force parents into destroying the divine order of their child's development. Countless numbers of children who were forced to take puberty blockers, cross-sex hormonal drugs, and undergo mutilation surgeries will never be fully formed or have that ability to thrive, both physically and, most tragically, mentally.
In April, a bombshell study out of Finland was published which documented the great psychological harm that is being done to these children. The study charted an increase in psychiatric illness among youth after they had undergone gender transition.
A landmark Finnish study of more than 2,000 adolescents has dealt a serious blow to the central promise of the child ‘gender medicine’ movement.
Adolescents who undergo sex alteration procedures experience a sharp rise in severe psychiatric illness in the years that follow, a landmark Finnish study has found.
The peer-reviewed study, published this week in Acta Paediatrica found that specialist psychiatric treatment rates rose more than sixfold among males and more than doubled in females after intervention.
Led by Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala of Tampere University Hospital, the study tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland’s nationally centralised gender identity clinics between 1996 and 2019. The cohort of 2,083 individuals was followed for up to 25 years, compared against 16,643 matched population controls.
Because Finland’s health registers are mandatory and patients cannot opt out, the dataset captured the complete fate of every gender-referred adolescent in the country over that period.
“Severe psychiatric morbidity is common among gender-referred adolescents and appears to be more prevalent in those referred after the recent surge in referrals,” the study’s authors concluded.
“Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment.”
Ya think?!
As a former denizen of a major metropolis which embraced this form of madness, I met a number of people who were "transitioning." One was the child of friends, and as documented in this study, things did not get better for this child, but worse. Tragically, the parents ultimately ended up with a dead child, and it is still heartbreaking to have been witness to it.
As a yoga instructor, I had several adult students who were also in the midst of their transitions to be something other than male or female. While the yoga practice managed to give them some temporary peace and feelings of integration, it was clear they were not well people. They rarely smiled, and still expressed difficulty with being in their own skin. One student constantly reeked of marijuana, which clearly indicated they needed to self-medicate on a regular basis.
These were adults having difficulty coping with something that was supposed to be curative. As far as I knew, these people were allowed to go through puberty and their bodily systems somewhat integrated before they messed them up with cross-sex hormones and surgeries. So, imagine children, who have not experienced puberty, whose bones and brains have not formed fully, yet they are being pumped full of drugs that suppress puberty and proper formation into what they were created to be.
There is a special place in hell for the medical personnel, counselors, and woke parents who willingly (and some gleefully) pushed their children into these horrors.
Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year. https://t.co/xThQy3eti5
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 20, 2026
According to the data, here is what was done to them:
Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up — rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, every subgroup of gender-referred adolescents — whether or not they had undergone the procedures — faced substantially elevated ongoing psychiatric risk.
The authors noted that in some individuals, the medical procedures “appear to be linked to deterioration in mental health.”
Europe is waking up and moving away from this insanity, and thanks to the Trump administration's policies, many U.S. children's hospitals are dropping their so-called gender-affirming care programs. However, there are still certain states where the government has doubled down, even bypassing parental consent or targeting parents who refuse to affirm their child's gender dysphoria.
Such was the case of young Jonni Skinner, who was pushed into gender transition at the age of 13. My RedState colleague Ward Clark documented his story, and Skinner had this to say about what was done to him.
According to Skinner, who feels particularly disillusioned by the medical industry, the chain of trust between doctors, patients, and parents has been broken. But ultimately he said he’s unsure if the medical community is equipped––morally or financially––to take responsibility for the harm it has caused.
“At 13, we’re all insecure,” Skinner recalled. “So the fact that they weaponized that insecurity to essentially exacerbate my body image issues and then selling me, of course, hormones and surgery as a fix-all for that… It’s really horrible.”
As we are hearing more and more stories of detransitioners, and more studies like this Finnish one, which are documenting the long-term harms suffered by youth who were transitioned, we all need to stand athwart of this madness and demand its cessation. We have an entire generation who have been decimated; humanity cannot afford to have it happen to another.
