Why is the CBC Taking on Transgenderism?
Recently I had a private exchange with a few people online who wondered why I was taking a critical stance against the transgender issue. They support our work as it relates to #BigFertility in the areas of surrogacy and womens rights, maternal bonding, etc, but they struggled to see how transgender advocacy has anything to do with our scope of work. These questions provide an excellent opportunity for us to add much needed clarity on this subject:  Our reasons for entering into this particular debate are numerous but all equally important. Underscoring all of them are the pharmaceutical industry that continually capitalizes off peoples desperation without regard for long term consequences and the corruption of do no harm medicine. First, men started having babies. Then trans women started wanting uterine transplants. Then #BigPharma started luring children into a lifetime of pharmaceutical dependence via puberty blockers and cross sex hormones that will render these children permanently sterile before they are even old enough to pierce their ears without parental consent. Doctors will go to work today to perform elective double mastectomies on 15-year-old girls. I hope you can see the connections between the work we have been doing and now this expansion of #BigFertility. Weve been writing about this stuff (and much more) for years. We focus on science, technology, medicine, law and a lot around assisted reproduction. Our position is never about partisan politics; its about the ethical implications people tend to gloss over en route to their desired ends. Bad ideas create victims. Our job at the CBC is to question and challenge bad ideas before people get hurt.