Washington Examiner – Blind trust in experts who have not earned it is an overarching theme of Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan’s new book, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult.
This timely work of journalism tells the stories of a group of deeply wounded young people whose lives were permanently altered when they and their families blindly trusted an expert class that sold them a transgender fantasyland.
The people that Olohan profiles suffered from a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties, but all fit the same general profile:
teenagers who, while navigating the difficulties of puberty and growing up, believed that they were born in the wrong body and needed to undergo a sex transition, only to realize later that the permanent life-altering procedures that they had undergone had done them more harm than good.
“These stories of detransition are a disturbing and horrible journey through the lives of a group of young people who were suffering greatly.”
But as they looked for an antidote to these personal hells, a professional class of doctors and psychiatrists used emotional blackmail to sell a fantasyland that they had no intention of delivering.
“Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?” were the words of doctors to the parents of Luka, a detransitioner profiled in the book.
A version of that could be copied and pasted for nearly every single story that Olohan recounts and is the core selling point of gender transition procedures: that these permanently life-altering drugs and surgeries are a ticket to a better life.
Many other books about the proliferation of transgender ideology among the general public and especially among young people have largely focused on the propaganda and challenges posed by this extraordinarily perverse ideology,
The story of Detrans is told through people who have lived and suffered at the hands of this class of experts who are all too eager to mutilate the body of a healthy teenage girl.
In fact, one of the most jarring aspects of the book is the recurring theme of medical professionals completely disregarding a patient’s list of mental ailments …
