The author describers herself as a queer woman, married to a transman, to the left of Bernie Sanders, and a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

If you won't even listen to her, dismissing her experience as "horrid crap", then perhaps you're "stuck in an ideological local maximum". Is there anyone you would listen to?

It's the commentary and the ends to which it is put, that are the horrid crap. Case in point, your comments above.

She's very clear that what's being done is the "horrid crap".

"What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling."

You probably think you're supporting a good cause, but you're not.

> You probably think you're supporting a good cause, but you're not

project much?

"horrid crap" was my term, you don't get to tell me what I mean.

It's transparently a drummed-up wedge issue, designed to demonise a vulnerable minority for political gain and distraction, and as such is utterly without merit and not worthy of more of my attention. And if allowed to continue, it won't end with that group.

You don't strike me as an instigator of this nonsense though. No, you seem more like you're carrying water for them, what Lenin called a "Useful idiot".

tl;dr: Eyeroll

Hilarious. It's not conservatives who are pushing this issue; it's the kind of people who quote Lenin.

I agree it's a "drummed-up wedge issue", that's essentially what I've been saying all along, but you know who really drummed it up.

The same people who are encouraging vulnerable youth to have dangerous medical treatments.

> It's not conservatives who are pushing this issue;

This is a flat denial of reality over the last few years.