Sexual dysphoria is a dangerous (for young people) “social contagion”

At the Tavistock Clinic of London, a service for children with gender dysphoria now closed by the British government, ran a rather macabre joke: “At the rate we’re going, there won’t be any gays in a while”. The BBC reporter tells it, Hannah Barnes, in his book “Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children”, an investigation that has struggled to find a publisher. Barnes explains to the Sunday Times that the girls being treated at Tavistock said: “When I hear the word ‘lesbian’ I shudder”. And the boys confided to the doctors their disgust at being attracted to other boys.” Some inside the clinic came to believe that “conversion therapy for gay children” was being carried out there. What if becoming trans, asks Barnes, “at least for some, is nothing more than a way to convert from being gay? If a guy is attracted to other guys but feels ashamed of it, then one way around that is to identify yourself as a girl and insist that you’re straight.” She turns her head, but many mothers of minors with supposed dysphoria tell the same story: “Maybe you’re just a lesbian…”. “How disgusting!” Is the answer: “I’m not sick!”.