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Commentary
�The primary purpose of society shifted in recent decades from protecting innocent human life to eliminating suffering. That may seem like a small change in emphasis. But our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense.
�Let's start with the transgender moral panic. In the name of eliminating suffering in children with gender dysphoria, "do no harm" medical ethics have been cast aside to the detriment of the very patients in need of care. Cases in point: The Biden administration and the American Pediatric Association—among others—insist that children identifying as the sex they were not born should receive drastic interventions such as hormones and puberty blocking and "top surgeries"—i.e., mastectomies in girls ages 12 to 17. Occasionally, gender dysphoric children are even subjected to "bottom" surgeries, genital mutilations that result in a lifetime of sterility and sexual dysfunction. California has been so corrupted by this ideology that it passed a law making itself a gender-affirming sanctuary state....