Once they see the error of their ways, they have to deal with the trauma of having mutilated their bodies.
Their number may not be legion yet, but it will be, and soon. They’re the people, most of them extremely young, who were convinced by parents, friends, teachers, school psychologists, online “influencers,” psychotherapists, and/or doctors that they were transgender — only to realize, after subjecting themselves to puberty blockers, sex hormones, and perhaps even radical surgery in the name of “gender affirmation,” that they’d made a tragic mistake.
In the splendid new documentary Affirmation Generation, which is viewable for free on Vimeo starting today, we meet several such men and women.
