We hear much these days about book banning and censorship. This does happen. For instance, Amazon and Target employees tried to prevent the book Irreversable Damage by Abigail Shrier, about the transgender movement, from being sold. It’s not even a book that argues there is no place for medical procedures for transition for those with “gender dysphoria.” It does argue that many teens currently have bought into a social contagion that makes them claim to be “trans” when they are not.
I know, an outrageous claim that teenagers might say and do things to impress their peers and might, on occasion, have faulty decision-making skills. But that is too much for the LBGRQFORPETESAKE community. Such wild ideas are too much for the public as a whole, the current ACLU argues.
Shrier notes that the use of puberty blockers is presented as an easy stopgap for teens uneasy about growing into adulthood. But she also argues that such drugs are presented as risk-free when that is hardly the case. I appreciated this passage about the lure of medicating our kids:
Adolescence is especially hard on girls. Effervescent with emotion, they buck and bray like wild horses. Parents might be forgiven for assuming that this can’t be right – that there is something wrong with them. Parent might even be forgiven for wishing to put their daughters on medication to flatten their moods and short-circuit these crazy teenage years. This is the fantasy of inducing a kind of Sleeping Beauty come until your daughter is ready to awaken, calm, and refreshed, having arrived gracefully at womanhood. (In fact, writing this book made me wonder if that wasn’t the actual origin of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and so many other fairy tales: the fond wish to place your unmanageable teenage girl in a brief coma.)
Of course, the parents of boys are also tempted to medicate sons to keep them from being so darn rambunctious.
I think we all would love to have the option of putting life on hold. But to quote the philosopher Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Youth is precious. But also difficult. It is never easy, don’t believe anyone who says they have a solution to make it so.
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