Detransitioners — and Their Regrets — Emerge as a Major New Front in the Transgender Wars
As more detransitioners come out publicly with their stories, the fight has intensified over how to care for children and teenagers who identify as transgender.
It’s difficult these days to escape the transgender front of the culture war. Detransitioners — those who identified as transgender and underwent social and medical transitions only to reverse course later — are the latest group the left is accusing the right of deploying, while the right says we ought to take them as a warning.
The right, it appears, is learning the lesson articulated by Andrew Breitbart — “politics is downstream from culture.” Conservatives are boycotting Bud Light, Miller Lite, and now Target over the companies’ “woke” advertising and products they say are “grooming” kids to be transgender. A pro-Trump rapper’s song calling for a boycott of Target — the chorus is “Target, yeah they’re targeting kids” — hit number one in late May on Apple’s iTunes sales chart, Newsweek reported, beating out Taylor Swift.
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