Abigail Shrier: How the Gender Fever Finally Broke
Loving, naive parents believed medical science was above politics and beyond question. Now, with the stroke of a pen, a destructive ideology has been eliminated.
When the history of 21st-century gender mania is written, it should include this signal entry: In 2020, a website called GoFundMe, usually a place to find disaster-relief appeals and charities for starving children, contained more than 30,000 urgent appeals from young women seeking to remove their perfectly healthy breasts.
Another entry, from June 2020: The New England Journal of Medicine, America’s platinum medical publication, published a piece explaining that biological sex is actually “assigned at birth” by a doctor—and not a verifiable fact, based on our gametes, stamped into every one of our cells. In fact, biological sex ought to be deleted from our birth certificates—the authors claimed—because a person’s biological sex serves “no clinical utility.” Breaking news to gynecologists.
I could go on. But as of January 28, 2025, I don’t have to.
On that day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order announcing that the federal government would no longer “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another,” and that it would “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
To the practitioners and promoters and numberless devotees of pediatric “gender affirming care”—a euphemism for the vast apparatus pushing junk science on vulnerable children and confused families—it came as a much-needed slap in the face.
If it seems odd that the spell of pediatric gender medicine should have been ended by politicians and not physicians, consider that in America, politics is how it began. Specifically, it began with Obamacare.
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature legislation incentivizing and coercing private insurers to offer their products on a government exchange, prohibited those companies from discriminating on the basis of sex. And in May 2016, six years after the bill’s enactment, the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services added this fateful qualification: Discrimination on the basis of “sex” was to include discrimination on the basis of “gender identity.”
“Obama effectively wrote into law, through healthcare, that gender identity is a protected class,” healthcare executive and gender-medicine researcher Zhenya Abbruzzese told me. And that opened a huge new source of funding for these treatments. “Because once these insurers feel like they have to cover it, that’s it. You have just turned on the engine,” Abbruzzese said.
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Is the tide beginning to turn on LGBTQ wokeness?
NY school board meeting descends into chaos over ‘LGBTQIA+’ book as large group of fuming parents takes over
Outraged upstate New York parents took over a school board meeting this week, demanding to know why their elementary school children were exposed to an “LGBTQIA+” book that included depictions of naked people and bondage enthusiasts.
A large and animated crowd of parents gathered in a Monroe County auditorium on Tuesday and voiced their concerns to the superintendent and Penfield school board about their young children having access to the book “The Rainbow Parade: A Celebration of LGBTQIA+ Identities and Allies.”
The controversial book tells the story of a young girl and her two mothers attending an LGBT parade and follows a child who is exploring their “gender identity.” The book’s lesson for kids is to “break down stereotypes and embrace diversity,” according to a description.
“The Rainbow Parade” includes depictions of a naked person shown from behind, furries, and a gay couple outfitted in leather BDSM (bondage/domination/sado-masochism) attire.
Students who were shown the book were in grades 1 through 5 — meaning they are roughly ages 5 through 11.
Parents in Penfield were not pleased and let Superintendent Tasha Potter get a taste of their anger.
“If you think that that’s appropriate for children to see, then there’s something wrong with you,” John Feathers, a father, said at the meeting, according to WHEC, adding, “You need to have a mental evaluation. There’s no reason that should be in the schools whatsoever at all.”
“You can see the guy’s butt is clearly out,” Feathers said, referencing one drawing in the book. “And then if you go over on this side of the picture, there’s two guys standing in bondage right there.”
Potter tried to quell parental outrage by referencing proper procedure for filing objections to school materials — but was quickly and overwhelmingly booed.
“We are here at our board meeting, conducting our business,” Potter patronizingly said to parents — who then booed particularly loudly.
“It’s our board meeting,” said one parent who was filming the surreal conclave.
“We pay you!” another male parent shouted.
As the boos rained down, the school officials called the meeting to a close without officially hearing any public comments.
“They’re just leaving?” the parent filming the event said in disbelief.
Video from the contentious meeting went viral and even Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk has weighed in on the controversy.
The richest man in the world quoted a video posted by Libs of TikTok, writing only, “A kindergartner…”
The Penfield School Board did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
This is the level of morality of the people we put in charge of educating our children. We should do a much better job of vetting teachers and administrators.
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