Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children and Teens Seeking Medicalized Gender Change

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to The Australian writer Bernard Lane about the severe risks associated with rushing gender dysphoric children into puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—and the rising tide of concerned parents who are pushing back against the campaign to reflexively ‘affirm’ children’s beliefs about their inner identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.0	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young,
0:20.0	and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
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0:35.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast.
0:36.7	I'm Jonathan Kay here to introduce this week's episode which is hosted by
0:40.7	Quillette founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehman.
0:44.2	Two months ago, the American Civil Rights Group ACLU, which has lately focused its public
0:49.2	messaging primarily on transgender advocacy, tweeted out the single sentence,
0:54.0	Trans children are perfect exactly as they are.
0:58.0	It was intended as one of those viral feel-good messages
1:01.0	that build support for trans children, surely a worthy cause.
1:04.4	And the tweet did indeed go viral, though not for the reason the ACLU had intended.
1:09.4	Rather, people responded that, yes, children are perfect, at least metaphorically so, the way that they're born.
1:16.8	It's okay if they're gay or lesbian or they're a straight boy who happens to have feminine characteristics, or a girl who happens to be butch.
1:24.8	Except in severe cases of dysphoria, these kids don't need risky and untested drugs to delay
1:31.3	puberty or induce cross-sex hormonal changes.
1:35.0	In this week's Colette podcast, Claire's guest, writer Bernard Lane,
1:40.0	argues that the battle over trans rights shouldn't really be thought of as just another front in the culture war.
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