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I think honestly it’s down to psychology. Humans are by nature tribal and because evolutionary history tends to favor those who have a strong fear response, it’s easy to manipulate people through lurid fears. The person swept up in those kinds of movements tend to see their involvement as virtuous and protecting the tribe. And because of the fear basis of the belief system and the way opposing views are often stated as “causing or allowing the bad thing to happen,” nobody wants to be either on that side or allow themselves to be associated with those on that side. And thus institutions fall into line — after all, being against medical transition is being essentially pro-suicide of trans-kids, and who wants that? Who wants doctors on staff who are pro-suicide?
Once the institutions fall in line, you have plain old ordinary economics helping the cause. Being anti medicalization if you’re in the medical field is often career ending. You have kids, a mortgage, you need to eat, so you decide not to say anything to jeopardize your employment. You don’t want to rock the boat lest your friends leave you for self-preservation. You don’t want to be kicked out of school for being a bigot, you need that scholarship and eventually that degree to get a job. Plus being on record as a wrong thinker means less opportunities after graduating. Head down, grade grub, do the internships and shut up.
The smart-alec rejoinder to that is the Canadian Medical Assistance In Dying programme which seems to be such a resounding success that they're extending it out to more and more categories of people (sorry, crazy Canadians, you'll have to wait until St Patrick's Day next year before you can apply to kill yourself, but we're getting there!)
I have no clue how governments and 'healthcare' agencies can expand these programs. I know it's a boomer Republican talking point, but the more self-mutilation and suicide medical programs I see getting pushed into the public consciousness the more I feel like the medical zeitgeist of a death cult has taken control of our society and its terrifying. Eugenics never went away, they just call it humanitarianism and focus it on the most productive culture the world has ever seen.
I'm reminded here of a quote I recently encountered elsewhere online:
-Sir Julian Huxley, first Director of UNESCO, in "UNESCO: its purpose and its philosophy," pg. 21, 1946.
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