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Examining the Transgender Explosion

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Jun 26, 2022
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How Did We Get Here?

The transgender movement has a lot in common with another medical craze of the recent past. From the 1940s to early ‘60s, lobotomy was seen by many as a medical miracle used to “cure” difficult patients. By the mid 1960s, and after some 60,000 lobotomies, the procedure had been completely discredited.

This similarity occurred to me af…

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