Gender Dysphoria Diagnosies have spiked in 49 out of 50 states between 2018 and 2022.

The only state that did not see a jump in boys thinking of their girls and girls thinking their boys was South Dakota

which actually saw a 23% decrease in gender dysphoria diagnoses.

So what gives? Is there something in the water in 47 out of the lower 48 plus Alaska and Hawaii?

Is there something special in the water in South Dakota?

Or is transgenderism not actually a medical reality but rather an ideology

and social contagion? There is no evidence of any major differences in the water between South Dakota and the rest of the country,

but there is a difference in the laws. South Dakota has not gotten on board with trans ideology.

In fact, last year, the state formally restricted trans medical mutilations for children.

A number of other states have issued similar bans, but unfortunately leftist activists on the courts and elsewhere have prevented the bans

from being enacted in most of them.

This is great news for the people of South Dakota.

Gender dysphoria, gender confusion is a terrible condition that leads to all sorts of psychological problems.

And the supposed treatments are even worse.

Not only do the supposed gender affirming treatments not resolve the psychological problems, depression, anxiety,

suicidality, but they add to them a whole host of physical problems that can leave patients

sterile, crippled, and at risk of early death.

The story is bad news for the alternately misguided and perverted people peddling trans ideology. But the story is also bad news for the well-meaning

lower-case L liberals who believe that politics is exclusively and

eternally downstream of culture. In this case it isn't. South Dakota refused to pass

laws to encourage transgenderism and actively passed laws to discourage it. And what do you know? South Dakota is seeing

less of this dangerous ideology. That's because the law is a teacher and

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