Stolen Youth by Bethany Mandel

Author:Bethany Mandel [Mandel, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DW Books
Published: 2023-01-11T02:10:06+00:00

Part III

Kids as Guinea Pigs

We are conducting an unprecedented sociological experiment on our children. Never before have we raised children and told them to ignore very basic biology. We’ve never told kids, “There is no such thing as a man or a woman,” as their brains are forming. Learning how to categorize is a crucial early-learning tool,1 and the first way young children have learned how to separate human beings is into two camps: men and women. What does that do to the human brain when we tell children as their brains are developing that their inherent drive to categorize in this manner is wrong and incorrect? We’re about to find out.

The real human experimentation comes in when that denial of biological reality goes hand in hand with hormone therapy, with unknown long-term side effects on a developing body.

Children have always been exposed to inappropriate content for their age; sexualized content and frightening world events. This moment is unique: while we always understood that the innocence of children should be guarded at all costs, we have now decided as a society that children aren’t just unavoidably going to be exposed to sex and fear-inducing news, but that this is a good thing. How does this onslaught of sex and fear change the developing brain? We’re seeing early indications in the form of drastically declining mental health in children, with sharp rises in depression, anxiety, and more.

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