A recent jury verdict marks the first tremor in a building earthquake that may sever the transgender child mutilation pipeline, setting the stage for a host of lawsuits that threaten to end the medical establishment’s promotion of “gender-affirming care.”

Transgender activists push gender confusion and child mutilation in the name of “civil rights,” but we all know the dirty secret: Health care companies make a killing when teenagers sign up for a lifetime of harmful “treatments” before they’re able to offer informed consent.

In fact, activists, influencers, teachers, counselors, and medical staff have effectively created a child mutilation pipeline, leading young people to identify as the gender opposite their sex and to take experimental “treatments” to make their body resemble their claimed identity.

Activists and influencers push the idea that a person’s inner sense of “gender” overrides his or her biological sex, and that it is “healthy” to change body chemistry in pursuit of this identity. Teachers and counselors mainstream this idea in schools, even working to hide claimed gender identities from parents.

Doctors diagnose kids with “gender dysphoria,” the painful and persistent sense of identifying with the gender opposite one’s biological sex, and recommend “treatments.” Each step along the process involves more harms and often sets minors on the path to more invasive “treatments.”

The first step, often called “social transition,” involves peers and authority figures using pronouns and names that align with the kid’s gender identity. Even this acts as a “powerful........

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