Tea at Trianon: Netherlands Story Proves That Most Kids Grow Outgrow Discomfort With Gender

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Netherlands Story Proves That Most Kids Grow Outgrow Discomfort With Gender

From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette:

I remember when I found out that I would have menstrual periods. I learned it first in sex ed and then my mother confirmed it for me when I went home. I think I was 11 years old.

I told her I wouldn't be participating in that. She laughed and said, "You'll be the first woman in history that will be able to avoid that. " It was in the late 60's.

I was what they called back then a "tomboy." I loved sports and riding horses. I wanted to be a horse trainer and ride in the rodeo. I didn't like dolls or dresses, much to the chagrin of my mother. If I had been given a choice back then, I would have made the decision some girls make nowadays and transition to being a boy.

Thank God that wasn't an option or I never would have enjoyed my life as a woman, a wife, and a mom.

Then again, I didn't have the option shoved in my face every day via social media, counselors, and even teachers in the classroom. There were no tik tok videos championing the wonders of being transgender. My parents weren't warned that if they didn't let me be a boy I'd kill myself. Back then, pharmaceutical companies had other concerns like finding cures for cancer and preventing disease. They didn't push hormone blockers on adolescent girls.

I also wasn't subjected to the screaming diatribes of transgender activists calling everyone who doesn't follow their doctrine "bigots" or "transphobes." I wasn't constantly being told that being trans was "cool" and "science." It wasn't a popular fad.

Yet every day in this country, we are told over and over that being transgender was just a part of life and we should accept the physical and pharmaceutical abuse of our children at the hands of doctors. It seems to be part of the norm of the current times.

Now, a study of 2700 children from The University of Groningen in the Netherlands has shown that discontent with one's own gender peaks at 11% during adolescence and then dips to 4% around the age of 26. It seems wanting to change gender is a phase.

The researchers concluded, “Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development.”

Kids who don't like their biological gender change their minds as they grow older, become more mature, and adjust. They are also more able to withstand the influences pushed upon them if they are mentally sound. Of course, in the United States, there is a concerted effort to push gender re-assignment surgery and puberty blockers as if this will solve all the problems a child may be having. All the while, those who have already made the drastic, life altering decision seek affirmation by changing the lives of "recruits" to their lifestyle. Misery loves company.

And doctors, who should be about protecting patients from harmful procedures and drugs, have either given up their physician's oath for money or have been threatened with legal action if they tell their patients the truth about the lifelong damage of hormone blockers and the risk of gender reassignment surgery.

Thank goodness we have a handful of de-transitioners who are willing to tell the truth. Here is the story from the New York Post of one, Chloe. Her tale is terribly sad. (Read more.)