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Editors’ Note: If any American thinks the crazies are running wild here, they will not find much comfort from what is going on in Europe. They are running wild there as well, for many of the same reasons.  Our universities and intellectuals have betrayed us.  There is such a thing as “The International Left”, and it is clearly on display, which comes with a whole set of positions that are inimical to the family, to free enterprise, and to the ideas of limited government and free speech.  Note, just like in the US, European Leftists grab for the state to suppress freedom of speech and religion.  This fight is beyond “making America great.” It is a battle now across the Western world for liberty and sanity.

Brussels wants to allow children to change gender at any age—and punish any state that disagrees.

Brussels has completely lost its mind over trans ideology. Under a new EU proposal, children could be allowed to choose their own gender, regardless of age. According to the “LGBTIQ+ equality strategy 2026-2030,” the European Commission intends to “facilitate exchanges of best practices among member states to support the development of legal gender-recognition procedures based on self-determination that are free from age restrictions.” In other words, children should be free to declare themselves transgender or nonbinary at whatever age they please, and the adults around them should take their new identities at face value.

The trans activists pushing for these changes are likely to argue that ‘social transition’—when a person dresses in clothes of the opposite gender, uses different pronouns, and adopts another name—is completely harmless for children. The more ‘moderate’ gender ideologues believe that, even if there is an age restriction on prescribing hormones or undergoing gender-reassignment surgeries, there isn’t much danger in allowing a child to simply identify as the opposite sex. But this is far from true. In fact, we know that encouraging kids to shop around identities can be incredibly risky. Not only does it promote a negative body image, but it can also lead them towards medical intervention.

Worse still, the EU has suggested it wants to put a stop to any therapists or other adult intervention that might convince children they are not trapped in the wrong body. According to the new proposal, Brussels aims to outlaw any “conversion practices” in countries where they are still legal. The issue is, ‘conversion therapy’ as it is normally understood is already illegal across Europe—that is, it is decidedly against the law of any EU country to kidnap, torture, or assault another person for any reason, especially not in order to change their gender or sexuality. The kind of practices the EU really has in its sights when it refers to banning ‘conversion therapy’ is actually more akin to therapy and counseling…..

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