The Supreme Court will consider the arguments made in US v. Skrmetti on Wednesday, deciding whether the Tennessee Law restricting “gender-affirming care” for minors is constitutional. Of all the discussions surrounding the hearing, the most controversial, Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, has gained significant media attention. Speaking at the Stop the Harm rally, Walsh insisted, “There’s no such thing as a ‘trans kid’ … Those kids are confused, and their confusion has been exploited by quacks and abusers. They are abuse victims.” He is right.
I say this as a transgender person myself who survived gender dysphoria and grew into an adult man, one who sees the horrors of what could have been. I have written extensively on this topic, detailing my story in “Surviving Gender: My Journey Through Gender Dysphoria,” and I have always come back to the same argument:…
