Carol Platt Liebau: The High Cost of Our Social Experiment
Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News
Salem Podcast Network
4.5 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Too many parents have faced the dilemma of how to help a child struggling with gender confusion. They’re often told anything short of affirming a new gender identity risks psychological harm—even suicide.
New, comprehensive research from Finland contradicts that claim. It finds that mental illness isn’t caused by resisting transition. Rather, children who believe they were ‘born in the wrong body” are more likely to have underlying mental health issues.
What’s more, those struggles don’t ease after efforts to “transition”: in fact, they intensify. Rates of mental illness rose from around 10 to 60 percent in boys seeking to become girls, and from roughly 20 to 55 percent among girls transitioning to boys.
We’re not helping vulnerable children by denying reality. The transgender experiment has come at a steep cost, and it needs to end. Now.
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| 0:31.0 | This is Carol Platt, Liebao for townhall.com. Too many parents have faced the dilemma of how to |
| 0:37.2 | help a child struggling with |
| 0:38.6 | gender confusion. They're often told anything short of affirming a new gender identity risk |
| 0:44.0 | psychological harm, even suicide. New comprehensive research from Finland contradicts that claim. |
| 0:50.5 | It finds that mental illness isn't caused by resisting transition. Rather, children who believe |
| 0:55.8 | they were born in the wrong body are more likely to have underlying mental health issues. |
| 1:00.8 | What's more, those struggles don't ease after efforts to transition. In fact, they intensify. |
| 1:07.0 | Rates of mental illness rose from around 10 to 60% in boys seeking to become girls and from |
| 1:13.1 | roughly 20 to 55% among girls transitioning to boys. We are not helping vulnerable children by denying |
| 1:20.8 | reality. The transgender experiment has come at a steep cost, and it needs to end now. |
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