By Ryan “Dickie” Thompson – Disruptarian.com
Introduction: A Punk Rock Reality Check
If you’ve been following the headlines, you’ve probably noticed a disturbing new trend—medical bureaucrats, activist doctors, and self-anointed “gender specialists” are championing what they call “gender-affirming care” for kids. Let’s be clear: this is not “affirmation.” It is not compassion. It is not medicine in the Hippocratic sense.
It is mutilation.
And if you strip away the sanitized buzzwords, the doublespeak, and the “equity & inclusion” slogans plastered over it, that’s all it is. Kids—confused, vulnerable, still developing—are being used as guinea pigs in a social experiment unprecedented in history.
But don’t just take my word for it. Let’s lay out the receipts.
reference to this Tennessee state House of Representatives meeting on HB01 in 2023.
WPATH: The Self-Appointed Authority
At the center of this whole circus sits WPATH—the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. WPATH is the body behind the Standards of Care (SOC), guidelines that have been treated as gospel by hospitals, schools, and woke legislators.
WPATH’s intent is plain: they want to normalize and expand access to medical transition, including for minors. Their bias? Advocacy masquerading as science. And while WPATH is highly influential—many professional medical organizations cite their work—they are not a neutral authority. Their credibility is often challenged because their guidelines lean more activist than evidence-based.
The recent HHS “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria” report (May 2025) laid this bare. It said the “gold standard” of WPATH guidelines are built on weak evidence, low-quality studies, and ideological assumptions. In other words, WPATH is leading the parade while blindfolded, and kids are paying the price.
What the HHS Report Actually Said
The Trump-ordered HHS report (May 1, 2025) is a bombshell, even if legacy media tried to bury it under outrage pieces. It concluded:
- Weak Evidence for Benefits: Studies on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for kids are low-quality, short-term, and often contradictory.
- Evidence of Harm Exists: While long-term data is sparse, known risks include sterility, sexual dysfunction, bone loss, and irreversible physical changes.
- Medical Transition = Experimental: Treating minors with blockers and surgeries is “experimental” and not backed by credible science.
- Psychotherapy Preferred: The report pushed “exploratory therapy” (talk therapy) as a safer path—though even here, evidence is thin.
That’s not me editorializing. That’s the federal government’s own Office of Population Affairs saying: this is not proven medicine, it’s a human experiment.
Suicide: The Emotional Blackmail Card
The biggest club activists swing in this debate is suicide. The line goes: “If you don’t affirm and transition these kids, they’ll kill themselves.”
Matt Walsh, love him or hate him, dismantled this claim in testimony before a state legislature. He pointed out:
- No long-term studies show transition prevents suicide.
- WPATH’s own commissioned study couldn’t prove a link.
- If millions of “hidden trans kids” were truly killing themselves throughout history, we’d see an unbroken epidemic of child suicide—yet the surge in youth suicides is new, and it tracks alongside the rise of “affirmation,” not its absence.
This doesn’t trivialize suicide. It recognizes the truth: weaponizing suicide statistics is manipulative and false. If anything, pushing kids into transition may increase suicidality down the line.
Regret and Detransition: Stories They Don’t Want You to Hear
The activist lobby insists regret is “rare.” And sure, systematic reviews peg regret rates at around 1% to 3%. But let’s be blunt: even one child irreversibly sterilized, mutilated, or left suicidal is too many.
And the reality is much grimmer when you start listening to the people themselves:
- Chloe Cole: Put on puberty blockers and testosterone at 12, double mastectomy at 15. By 17, she regretted it all. She now speaks openly about the betrayal she feels from doctors and adults who told her this was “affirmation.”
- Ritchie Herron: British man who underwent genital surgery. Now suffers chronic pain, incontinence, and deep regret. His words: “I live neutered.”
- Eden Knight: A Saudi trans woman forced to detransition under family pressure. Her story ends in suicide—a brutal reminder of what coercion and lack of genuine choice looks like.
- Cristina Hineman: Detransitioner suing Planned Parenthood, claiming she was rushed into hormones and surgery, leaving her with PTSD.
- Clementine Breen: Transitioned as a minor under Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy’s care. Puberty blockers, testosterone, mastectomy—all before 13. Now she’s suing for irreversible harm.
- Walt Heyer: Transitioned, lived as a woman for 8 years, then detransitioned. He’s spent decades counseling others with regret.
These aren’t “rare unicorns.” They are canaries in the coal mine.
The Data Nobody Likes to Talk About
Let’s talk numbers for a second.
- Jorgensen (2023): 22% of transitioners reported regret, 11% ambivalent, 67% positive.
- MacKinnon (2022, JAMA): Again, 22% regret, 11% ambivalence.
- AP Review (2023): Across 27 studies of 8,000 people, about 1% regret—BUT many studies had short follow-up windows (2–5 years), hardly long enough for permanent effects like infertility or loss of sexual function to sink in.
Here’s the kicker: regret may not even show up for a decade or more. Which means these “low regret” numbers may just be delayed explosions waiting to go off.
The “Mutilation” Question
Some recoil at the word “mutilation.” Let me justify it.
When a 12-year-old is chemically sterilized with puberty blockers, that’s not medicine—it’s sterilization.
When a 15-year-old girl’s healthy breasts are cut off, that’s not therapy—it’s mutilation.
When testosterone deepens a girl’s voice and grows her facial hair forever, that’s not affirmation—it’s irreversible harm.
If we were talking about any other context—say, a religious sect cutting body parts off children—we’d call it abuse, plain and simple. But slap a rainbow flag on it, call it “gender-affirming,” and suddenly it’s celebrated as progressive.
Who’s Driving This?
- WPATH & Advocacy Doctors – Setting activist guidelines.
- Hospitals & Universities – Like Vanderbilt, openly marketing puberty blockers and mastectomies for minors until public backlash forced “pauses.”
- Big Pharma – Every puberty blocker, every hormone prescription is a lifelong customer. That’s a profit stream, not a cure.
- Political Actors – Using trans kids as pawns in a culture war, cynically painting any resistance as “hate.”
This isn’t compassion. It’s an industry.
What True Compassion Looks Like
Let’s flip the script. What would real compassion look like?
- Time, not rush: Allow kids to grow, develop, and explore without carving permanent changes into their bodies.
- Psychological support: Help kids through mental health challenges, trauma, and identity confusion without pushing drugs and scalpels.
- Accountability: Hold doctors, therapists, and schools accountable when they rush minors into life-altering decisions.
- Truth-telling: Stop pretending puberty blockers are “reversible.” Stop pretending mastectomies are anything but permanent amputations.
My Own Story: No Blame, Just Accountability
I don’t write this as an outsider to family trauma. I grew up in a violent home. My brother took his own life under the weight of abuse. I was beaten. I was told I wasn’t enough.
And yet, even at 19, when I wrote my autobiography (link here), I made a decision: no blame. I owned my failures, my successes. I gave my parents compassion, even as I held myself accountable.
That’s the path I want for my daughter, for your kids, for every kid confused in this upside-down world: responsibility, not blame. Growth, not victimhood.
But what today’s “gender-affirming” industry is selling isn’t accountability. It’s the easy road: blame biology, blame society, blame mom and dad—then cut, drug, and mutilate. That is not a solution. That is surrender.
Conclusion: Punk Rock Parenting
Here’s the truth, raw and uncut: kids are not political props. They’re not lab rats. And they sure as hell aren’t canvas for an activist surgeon’s ideology.
The mutilation of children under the guise of “trans-therapy” is the scandal of our age. Years from now, society will look back in horror, asking how we ever let this happen.
I don’t care if it makes me unpopular with elites or activists—I will stand on this hill: children deserve protection, not mutilation.
Let’s give them time, love, guidance, and yes—boundaries. Let’s reject the lie that the only path to peace is through a scalpel. Let’s stop the experiment before another generation is scarred for life.
Because if we don’t, the regret stories won’t be “rare.” They’ll be everywhere. And the blood will be on our hands.
—Ryan “Dickie” Thompson
Disruptarian.com – The Punk Rock Libertarian Voice
Sources and References
- HHS Report on Pediatric Gender Dysphoria (May 2025) – Office of Population Affairs
- WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) – Standards of Care v8
- WPATH & USPATH Response to HHS Report (May 2025)
- Valeria P. Bustos et al., Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery – Systematic Review & Meta-analysis (2021)
- S.C.J. Jorgensen et al., Transition Regret and Detransition (2023)
- K.R. MacKinnon et al., JAMA Network Study on Transition Outcomes (2022)
- AP News – “Research finds low rates of regret after transition” (2023)
- Chloe Cole – Testimony & Public Activism (2022–2025)
- Ritchie Herron – Post-transition regret story (The Scottish Sun, 2023)
- Eden Knight – Suicide and Forced Detransition (2023)
- Cristina Hineman Lawsuit against Planned Parenthood (Them.us, 2023)
- Clementine Breen Lawsuit against Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy (NY Post, 2024)
- Walt Heyer – Detransition Activism & Memoirs (1991–present)
- Matt Walsh – Tennessee Legislative Testimony on Youth Transition (2022)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Transgender Health Program Statements (2022)
- New Yorker – “The Grim State of Trans Health Care” (2025)
- Washington Post – “Good questions about transgender care” (2025)
- Time – “New HHS Report Urges Exploratory Therapy for Transgender Youth” (2025)
- NY Post – “Medicine shuns gender detransitioners like me” (2024)
- AP Coverage – “Gender treatment regret rates very low, studies show” (2023)
I tried to be balanced, even giving opposing points of view and references in this post.
The ultimate point is, that this transing kids thing is a very new phenomenon and we can not rely on any studies, because there is no long term study to reference. But what we do have, does not show proof that gender affirming care has any positive effect what-so-ever.

