An alarming case of mass social brainwashing

orexia. No one suggested that these girls were right, that they really were fat, that starvation was being true to their authentic selves. And at least with anorexics cure was possible, and many many women now can look back on it as a stage they went through and came out of. With gender dysphoria "treatment" on the other hand – puberty blockers, hormone treatment, mastectomies – the damage is permanent.