Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Kayeimowitz.

Kay is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Her work focuses on childhood, family, cultural issues, many other topics and it's appeared in multiple prominent outlets, including the Wall Street Journal,

the New York Times, The Washington Post, and of course City Journal, where her byline appears

regularly. Kay is the author of several books, including Manning Up, How the Rise of Women has Turned

Men into Boys. Today, we're going to discuss her essay, The Transgender Children's

Crusade, which appears in our spring issue, and it describes young people's unique vulnerability

to gender ideology. So Kay, thanks very much for joining us.

Very happy to be here, Brian. So you begin this essay by telling the story of Jazz Jennings,

transgender activist and a reality television star, an influencer

whose parents transitioned her from male to female,

really beginning at a very young age, when she started showing a predilection for, you know, girl toys and behavior.

Jazz, you know, has chronicled the most intimate details of gender transition on view, really,

from her childhood social transition to her sex reassignment surgery when she was 17.

But her journey is not typical, you're right, but it is emblematic of the increasingly commonplace idea

that selecting one's so-called gender identity is part of growing up. So I wonder if you can,

just to set the context for the story, if you could describe the concept of gender identity

and how it's transforming the

experience of coming of age in America. Yeah, I think probably a lot of listeners have heard

about puberty blockers and hormones and all the debate that's going on about those in states around the country.

But I wanted to really focus a little bit more on the idea of gender identity.

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