Young victims being sold a lie

EVERYONE from teachers to trans influencers tells girls that womanhood is something you can opt out of, and transition is the cure for the problems of every miserable teenager.

If you think you’re trans you probably are – that’s the slogan.

Girls are now supposed to be permanently Instagram-ready. On top of that, their male classmates look at horrific pornography on their mobile phones. Is it any surprise that many girls look at womanhood and say, ‘No thanks’?

Nothing irreversible happens to children, the doctors assure us. No hormones before 16, no surgeries before 18. But young people’s brains don’t become mature enough to weigh future risks until the age of 25.

Young women removing their reproductive organs may be sure they’ll never want children – but many change their minds.

I have met ‘detransitioners’ in their teens and early 20s. They dreaded approaching womanhood but now regretted the surgical steps they had taken. Testosterone had given them deep voices, facial hair and bigger muscles. Their breasts, even their uteruses and ovaries, had been removed.

They realised that although they no longer looked like women, they hadn’t truly become men either. They had made a catastrophic mistake.

The trans social contagion will eventually die out, I believe, but it will be too late for many.

Adults should have protected them, yet sold them the lie that it’s possible to change sex.

Some will be happy in their surgically-altered bodies, and good for them.

But many won’t. And for them, there’s no way back.