Too many children are still being let down by the very adults who are supposed to protect them. Their teachers, doctors, therapists, and even parents are more interested in conforming to woke fads than actually helping them. This grotesque experiment on kids has got to end.

With the re-election of Donald Trump in the U.S. and right-wing parties gaining ground across Europe, especially among the young, it’s tempting to assume that woke fads like transgenderism are now firmly relegated to the past.

Unfortunately, that’s not quite true. A new study by the Williams Institute has found that, while 1% of the U.S. population aged over 13 identifies as trans, that figure is much higher for teens than adults—3.3% of those aged between 13 and 17 apparently identify as trans. If this is accurate, that would mean there are 2.8 million transgender Americans; 2.1 million adults and 724,000 trans kids.

This figure indicated that the number of trans people has continued to rise. In 2022, there were apparently 1.6 million trans Americans, including 1.4% of 13-to-17-year-olds. That means that, in the last three years, the proportion of children identifying as trans has more than doubled.

Where on Earth did all those extra trans kids come from? The Williams Institute says that there have been significant “improvements” in how this data is collected and so making straight comparisons over time is difficult. But the discovery of 424,000 extra trans kids seems noteworthy. And we know from data in other countries—like from the now defunct Tavistock gender identity youth clinic in the UK—that there has indeed been a massive increase in young people identifying as trans in the past few years.

In 2009, the NHS Gender Identity Development Service received just 50 referrals of children, most of them boys. By 2016, that number was almost 2,000, the majority of them girls. In 2021/22, there were over 5,000 referrals to the service in total, and 3,586 to the Tavistock clinic in particular. There, almost 2,000 of the patients were biologically female. Bear in mind that this only includes children who were actually referred to receive treatment or therapy by the NHS, and that the number who merely identify as trans is likely much higher.

We don’t have a comparable gender breakdown in the U.S., although the data from some clinics do show that the majority of trans youth seeking treatment tend to be natal females. This is also the trend elsewhere, as recorded in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain.

To be clear, it’s important to reiterate that there is really no such thing as a trans child. Children cannot consent to the life-ruining surgeries and experimental, unsafe drugs referred to as ‘gender-affirming care.’ Trans children are entirely a product of the adults around them—and, in many cases, their own peers.

The fact that the transgender trend is so prevalent among young girls has led some to suggest this is a kind of social contagion, or a ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria.’ Parents of young girls have described how, practically overnight, their children—often already suffering from other conditions like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, or autism—decide that they no longer feel comfortable in their own bodies and wish to transition. Kids who are searching for acceptance and meaning in their lives end up getting sucked into communities, especially online, where being ‘queer’ is not only the norm, but also a marker of belonging.

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