What Did You Do During the Transgender Social Contagion?

What did you do during the transgender social contagion that consumed the lives of so many confused teenagers with the eager collusion of the educational, medical, legal, and political establishments of the Western world? Did you participate in the propagation of corrupted science in support of this contagion? Did you celebrate the importation of bizarre experimental practices from the outer fringes of human extremity into the spaces of ordinary bourgeois domesticity? Did you allow yourself to be complicit in harming children while earnestly believing yourself to be a hero and a savior?

These are the questions that a sane posterity will pose to those of us living today. We don’t know whether we will ever reach that sane posterity —whether we do or not is what is being contested today in schools and legislatures and medical offices throughout the Western world. It is, as an anon Twitter reply guy put it to me so eloquently a couple months ago, “a stress test for civilization itself.” I’ll be talking more about the inquest that the sane posterity that all sane people should be working to deliver to our posterity at the Genspect conference in Colorado next month.

The speech will be among other things a tribute to those standing up on behalf of reason and reality in the face of a movement that portrays itself as the vanguard of humanity while in practice inducting children into a cult of medicalized self-harm. Women like the authors of this book reviewed here by a mother of a daughter caught up in this contagion who also happens to be an excellent prose stylist. Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano — three who were unique in fulfilling their duty to patients caught up in a social contagion who inspired others to fulfill their duties that so many others shirked at the first hint of social pressure to do so.

The author at last feels safe to be in public saying aloud what she has known for the many years she had to spend in hiding from an astro-turfed pseudo-consensus of the Great and the Good that framed inducting confused children into a cult of medicalized self-harm as being on the vanguard of humanity.

Let her emergence into the light be a portent of the preference cascade to come.

— Wesley Yang

By Jenny Poyer Ackerman

Maybe you’ve noticed something odd about the way transgender