In the 1990s sexologists and intellectuals like Camille Paglia joined forces with the paedophile lobby to try to normalise child abuse. Did this help inspire the development of puberty blockers?
The year before Chicken Hawk was filmed Paglia signed a petition against the decision of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) to ban NAMBLA from its membership.
But what this story, I hope, has shown is the rhetoric that supports tolerance of paedophilia is indistinguishable from that which underlies the defence of puberty blockers. Tolerance towards the tropes of paedophilia inevitably erodes the boundaries that should prevent children being experimented on medically.
The “paedophilia chic” generated by intellectuals and clinicians in the 1990s created an atmosphere in which the idea of researchers forcing children to change their bodies irrevocably was no longer considered an outrage. The doctors who designed the Dutch Protocol did not work in a vacuum. Their malign pharmaceutical regime was enabled by the likes of Camille Paglia.
It’s hardly an accident that when asked about her intellectual influences Paglia praised John Money…the man perhaps most responsible for the adoption of puberty blockers and the rest of quack “gender affirming healthcare” across the world.
“Dr. John Money was one of my principal intellectual influences when I was writing Sexual Personae,” Paglia acknowledged without embarrassment.
Self-professed intellectuals like Sullivan and Paglia love now to criticise the adoption of trans ideology. If only they had taken child safeguarding more seriously and rejected the blandishments of the pro-paedophile lobby perhaps that ideology would have been smothered at birth.
Source: When Paedophilia Became Chic… – by Malcolm Richard Clark