Mutilating Children Could Have Been Avoided
The sexual left is blamed for the mutilation of children in the name of trangenderism. But the estalishment right allowed it to happen.
The conservative political class may finally be waking up to the realization that mutilating children is a little more serious consequence of transgenderist ideology than is admitting men to feminist bastions like women’s sports. Tucker Carlson has contributed to this awareness. But the interview he just held with the creator of a new film on this hideous practice covers up more than it reveals.
Carlson and filmmaker Robby Starbuck are appropriately outraged that children should be systematically abused in this way. But government policies and government officials, captured by radical sexual ideologues, have been the main driver of child abuse for decades, while both liberals and conservatives ignored it. I published articles clearly demonstrating this in the respected conservative news magazine Human Events back in 2002 and 2006, and in my books of 2007 and 2017 and my pieces were based on evidence provided by other investigators and scholars well before that.1
Briefly, the argument is this: It is undeniable that child abuse overwhelmingly takes place in single-parent homes. Almost all physical child abuse (which is most of it) is perpetrated by single mothers (or in foster care after the children are removed from the mothers). Virtually all sexual abuse is by the mothers’ lovers. Mothers in intact families also account for very little. Biological fathers are responsible for a miniscule proportion and serve as the children’s principal protectors.
Yet trumped-up accusations of child abuse have long been used to rationalize separating children from their fathers through divorce/custody proceedings and creating the very single-parent homes where most abuse occurs. Family court judges, terrified of feminist social workers (and skillful at creating additional business for themselves), readily grant their requests to endanger children.
As I wrote previously:
Seldom does public policy stand in such direct defiance of undisputed truths, to the point where the cause of the problem -- separating children from their fathers -- is presented as the solution, and the solution -- allowing children to grow up with their fathers -- is depicted as the problem. If you want to encourage child abuse, remove the fathers. … Appalling as it sounds, the conclusion is inescapable that we have created a huge army of officials with a vested interest in child abuse.
Conservatives may finally be willing to criticize the transgenderists for the latest outrage, but they are still too frightened to challenge the feminists who started it all: both sexual ideology itself and using other people’s children as political weapons. Had they had the courage to do so decades ago, we might have avoided all this.2 But then neutering conservatives, and rendering them cowardly sissies, is another achievement of the feminists.
Stephen Baskerville, “The Truth About Child Abuse,” Human Events, vol. 58, no. 16, 29 April 2002, p. 14; “How the Government Creates Child Abuse,” Human Events Online, 13 April 2006. You can find extensive documentation in my books, Taken Into Custody (2007), chap. 4, and The New Politics of Sex (2017), pp, 193-206.
I have not seen a breakdown of how many children undergoing “sex change” procedures are the children of broken homes, but it is almost certainly huge. Even if it is not, the point is the same, because failing to confront feminist extremism is what led to transgenderism. That would make a good project for a graduate student.
I come from a family rampant with sexual abuse on my father's side. I've never thought of it until now quite clearly...but even in that environment rarely was the sexual abuse from father to daughter. It was grandfather to granddaughter, uncle to niece in all the cases I remember. And my own father abused my older half-sisters, children who were not his. I now remember distinctly listening to stories from girls who fathers were also pedophiles on a few occasions...they were also spared the abuse. Fathers, even the ones evil enough to be pedophiles, will rarely harm their own offspring in such a way...not when there are suitable others available to take the abuse. But too often I hear stories where the mother was complicit, if not actively facilitated, the sexual abuse of their own children. This is an interesting phenomenon. There are a lot of interesting phenomenon many don't want to look at honestly.
All animals, humans included, have a nature best not tampered with too drastically and we're seeing more and more knock-off effects of this.
In my country, Australia, the Catholic Church is fully complicit in the lie of child abuse mostly being perpetrated by fathers, especially married fathers in intact homes.
We have the ubiquitous lie from the government and MSM that dv laws and funding exist to protect "mothers and their children", and the Catholic Church rides on this in their announcements on dv, and in their charitable fund-raising.
Fathers are presented as "dangerous", by default, and mothers as innocent victims protecting their children. Men and boys, especially those in "conservative" and/or religious environments, need to be taught to not grow up to be abusers.
So, I can speak from intimate knowledge of the Catholic Church in Australia, and also from close observation of other mainstream Christian denominations and charities.
I strongly suspect that this goes further than Australia.