Over the weekend, I argued that transgender activists, who so often claim to speak on behalf of troubled minors, do not deserve the moral high ground. I focused on the form of extortion they have encouraged in young people. According to it, to deny distressed youth puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even genital surgery is to deny their very beings, thus leading them to suicide.

This notion started to become mainstream ten years ago, in reaction to the suicide of Cincinnati-area teenager Joshua Alcorn. And it........

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