by Anne Schlafly, Chairman, Eagle Forum.
If a person’s imagination conflicts with reality, doctors used to suggest psychiatric care. Therapists should not inflate the delusions and make the situation worse, but instead provide treatment that alleviates the patient’s confusion between fact andfantasy. Unfortunately, over the last ten years, many medical professionals, medical schools, and medical societies have instead entered into the patient’s sick fantasy world.
The results are traumatic. America has now witnessed two suicidal murderers of schoolchildren who were males pretending to be females. Their diaries show that they had untreated psychiatric problems. Instead of being healed, they were “affirmed” in their disordered mental state. Doctors lied to these boys by telling them that boys can be transformed into girls.
How many more mass murders will be committed by transgenders? There is also a “Zizian” group of transgender vegans whose members are accused of committing six murders in three states, including killing a Vermont border patrol agent this year. The Nashville Police Department concluded that the 2023 murderer was “sane”, but anyone who denies his own biology is not grounded in reality.
Committing mass murder is a way of committing suicide, because the shooter will likely be dead at the end of the rampage. These disturbed young men choose a very public way to commit suicide in order to get maximum attention. The lie of the transgender movement is that transition prevents suicide; actually transitioning increases the likelihood of suicide. A 2024 survey by the pro-LGBT group, The Trevor Project, found that nearly half (46%) of transgender youth had suicide ideation. Changing their gender did not make them feel better.
When parents have sought counseling for a troubled teen, “affirming” therapists offer the slogan, “would you rather have a live daughter or a dead son?” It is a lie. According to Susan Field, M.D., “The best long-term evidence we have among adults shows that hormones and surgery used to mimic the non-birth sex is associated with suicide rates 19 times higher than population controls.” It is worse when the suicide has collateral damage of murdering innocent children.
The social experiment of transgenderism has been shown to be a fraud. Transgender treatment is not medical care, but butchery. The Minneapolis shooter wrote that “gender and weed f***ed up my head. I wish I never tried experimenting with either. Don’t let your kids smoke weed or change gender.” If only doctors and politicians would also realize that neither transgender nor marijuana should be administered to any young person. It’s a recipe for psychosis.
Illinois recently enacted a new law that mandates annual mental health screenings for all public school students from third to twelfth grade. Transgenderism became a social phenomenon among teenagers because everyone was talking about transgenderism. This new law will ensure that anxiety and depression will rise among Illinois students because the suggestive screenings will encourage the children to feel as though something is wrong. A better route would be to encourage students to participate in activities that take them out of their mental state and towards a higher purpose.
Anyone who claims to change his biology is mentally unwell and needs real psychiatric care and not cross-sex hormones. We don’t want to condemn these children to a lifetime of suffering among the homeless misfits.
