OPINION:
The driving force behind “Gender affirming care” is money (“The tide has turned on transgender insanity,” Web, July 6). Doctors, drug companies and hospitals have been making hundreds of millions of dollars a year using government funding and health insurance. Cut that off and 98% of this madness will stop.
Sex-change operations of adults have been going on for close to a century, but they’ve only become more common in recent decades, thanks to the push to get others to pay for it. Until 30 years ago it was unheard of for children to undergo sex changes (“gender reassignment procedures”) unless there were some severe injury to the genitals or kind of birth defect. A minor’s mental state and/or gender preference were not factors.
As for males identifying as females in girls’ and women’s sports, most have had little or no surgery done to their bodies. This is particularly true regarding males wanting to use female showers and locker rooms or going to women’s prisons. What is telling is that there are very few biological females wanting to play in men’s sports or go to men’s prisons.
Most people realize this is just a big con job, either to get an unfair advantage or to get easy access to women. The fact that women’s rights organizations, like the National Organization for Women, are not out in front protesting this boggles my mind.
Cmdr. WAYNE L. JOHNSON
Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Navy (retired)
Alexandria, Virginia
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