Mick Hartley

From the Times:

The number of children in England diagnosed with gender dysphoria has risen 50-fold over the past decade, research shows.

Analysis of NHS GP records suggests that more than 10,000 under-18s identified as transgender or struggled with gender distress in 2021, up from about 200 in 2011.

Gender dysphoria describes the sense of anxiety when people feel a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity, which prompts some to take steps to transition to the opposite sex using hormonal drugs or surgery.

Since "gender identity" is a maufactured construct – an ideological construct – it's no surprise that the huge increase in so-called gender dysphoria is so closely related to its promotion on social media. There could hardly be clearer evidence that this is all a cult, on the lines of the satanic panic, or multiple personalities, – or even alien abduction, though that never really caught on. This is the biggie though: a toxic combination of postmodern Queer Theory and the old religious body/soul dualism. This is the one that's really caught on; that's left thousands of unfortunates with mutilated bodies, that allows men into women's sport, and women's prisons, and women's rape centres. That's captured institutions and even governments across the western world. 

Gender dysphoria can be a useful diagnostic term, no doubt, for the psychological condition of feeling you should somehow be the other sex, but in the past it was extremely rare. The new terminology of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) was introduced to describe this new sudden explosion – which is not a  discovery of a new medical condition which has only recently been uncovered – like, say, autism – but a term for these young kids persuaded by their time on social media that all their pubertal problems can be solved if they transition to the other sex. It's not a medical problem so much as a social contagion.

In other words, nobody's born in the wrong body.