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.

As a coda to this, Tucker Carlson recently intereviewed a father who found himself helpless as his former wife and feminist judges started physically “changing the sex” of his young son. Again, Carlson was appropriately outraged. But here is what I posted on X (Twitter) in response:

https://twitter.com/DrSBaskerville/status/1784189991976865856

This [too] could have been avoided. As I posted recently (https://twitter.com/DrSBaskerville/status/1782147106423140573…), child abuse -- including some hideous child abuse -- has long been taking place almost entirely in the homes of single mothers. Yet only now that it involves transgender ideology do conservatives start expressing outrage about it. Where were they all these decades, when children were being taken away from their fathers and subject to abuse every bit as horrifying as this? And why are they not expressing any outrage or desire to reform the divorce machinery itself, which is the first weapon that enables all the horrors like this one? It is no accident that this man's son is suffering this at the hands of his "ex-wife". It is certainly why she become his ex-wife, so that she would be "liberated" to do things like this. This is all thoroughly documented in my book, Taken Into Custody (https://stephenbaskerville.com/taken-into-custody…). I realize that Carlson worked for Fox News, who would have dismissed him earlier if he had investigated this properly. But now he is free. My new book will argue that professional conservatives deliberately allow and even encourage harm to come to ordinary people in order that they can express outrage about it and benefit politically. I would like to think this is not true of Carlson. His commentaries are full of little asides indicating that he wants to expose things like this. So what is he waiting for?

1
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.

2
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.

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