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The Protocol

The Beginning

The Protocol

The New York Times

New York Times, Science, Society & Culture, The Protocol, News

3.8605 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The story of youth gender medicine starts in The Netherlands, with a clinical psychologist and a 16 year-old who was determined to go through life as the gender he long felt he was.

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0:00.0

With a stroke of my pen on day one, we're going to stop the transgender lunacy.

0:08.0

I am so hated for just existing and being who I am.

0:16.0

It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

0:25.6

How has this impacted us? Well, it was already not a safe place, but now we feel like asylum seekers in our own country.

0:35.6

And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children

0:42.2

and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.

0:48.2

This is a big lie.

0:51.5

Being able to transition absolutely saved my life.

0:57.6

It's only been about two decades since trans and gender nonconforming kids in the U.S.

1:03.5

have been able to get medical treatment to transition.

1:07.1

Now, the federal government is looking to end it.

1:11.4

And the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the issue in the coming weeks.

1:16.6

If the treatment's barred, some kids will suffer because they can't access the treatment.

1:23.4

If the treatment is allowed, some kids will suffer who get the treatment and later wish they hadn't.

1:30.3

And then the question becomes, how does the court choose which group?

1:37.3

Right.

1:39.3

Right!

1:40.3

You do not have the right to abuse your kids.

1:46.3

I'm scared for myself, for my own health care.

1:52.0

There's not enough evidence to put our children out on a huge experiment.

1:57.5

If they cannot get treatment, children will die.

2:00.4

These treatments do much more harm than good.

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