Ray Blanchard Discusses Transgender Science and Orthodoxy | National Review

Ray Blanchard Discusses Transgender Science and Orthodoxy | National Review

"I don't think there is any substantive difference [between the word 'paraphilia' and the word 'pervert']. I mean the word 'pervert' had become part of the lay vocabulary and was routinely used as an insult or as a derogatory comment whether seriously or in jest. Everybody knew the word pervert, had a vague idea of what it meant, and knew that it was something bad. So, the word paraphilia was substituted because it had a nice medical sound to it, and it had not and still has not entered the popular vocabulary as an insult....

"I think there have historically been precedents, and they have typically involved more females than males, which is also true like in the [Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria] phenomenon. For example, recovered memory was a fad for a while, and ritual satanic child abuse was a fad. Typically, these involved more female adolescents than males for whatever reason.

"If you want to go a little further back in history and look at the Salem witch trials in the U.S. in the late 17th century, most of the individuals who were claiming to have been attacked by witches and who were executed as witches were predominantly female. While it was older ladies who were hanged as witches, it was young ladies who accused them of witchcraft. So there seems to be something about a young adolescent female population that is particularly vulnerable to certain kinds of psychiatric phenomena...."

"Educated people in general have a sympathy for the downtrodden or the unfortunate that's built into liberal-arts education in the Western world -- and I think that's a good thing. I think it's a good thing that people should get some kind of built-in bias towards the underdog and towards the suffering. But I think in this case, that tendency and that bias on the part of liberal media has been misused by trans activists to influence treatment of cases of those who would actually do better in the long term if they could simply accept their anatomic sex, and here I'm talking about the young kids, 60 to 80 percent of whom are going to normalize in gender identity even without any clinical intervention."