Mick Hartley

Another absurd article on the current SCOTUS case, on the same lines as that Nation article, setting up the brave fighters for "gender-affirming care" against the wicked right-wing forces of reaction. This time, no surprise, it's from the Guardian's US correspondent Moira Donegan – How did transgender children in the US become so politicized? "The US supreme court is likely to uphold a flimsy and bad-faith Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors".

The politicization of transgender children in the US is one of the most astounding coups of propaganda and organized animus in recent history. Rarely has so much attention and rage been directed at such a minuscule number of people, and more rarely, still, have those people been the most vulnerable and blameless among us: kids and teens….

These changes in public attitudes towards trans youth – from a broad if imperfect sentiment of tolerance to a widespread and politically weaponized attitude of hostility toward a small minority of kids – did not emerge by accident. It was the product of a deliberate, conscious effort to radicalize large swaths of the United States, and significant chunks of state policy, into a hostility towards a few children.

And so on. Once the preposterous idea is accepted that there are these supposed transgender children – children somehow "born in the wrong body" – then all the rest follows. But of course there aren't. It's nonsense. It's the insistence that these troubled and vulnerable kids, victims of a social contagion, need to undergo drastic and ireversible medical procedures rather than go through a normal puberty which is the real regressive homophobic scandal.

The real "one of the most astounding coups of propaganda….in recent history" is surely that so much of the liberal left have lost their minds to the cult of gender.