Dr. Naomi Wolf: “Can one go home again? What is privilege? What is inclusion? What is “meaning”? How do all these work to reward and punish and thus to police our societies and cultures, our knowledge base itself, our moral norms — in the subtlest, and yet the most gently tyrannical of ways? Dr Ethan Haim, a whistleblower from Texas Children’s Hospital, has given an eloquent interview to Christopher F. Rufo about “gender affirming care”, and about how the medical industry, and especially doctors and administrators in academic medicine, adopted an ideology around these harsh, irreversible and dramatic procedures, unquestioningly. Rufo asked Dr Haim — Why? Why did so many physicians latch onto this unproven, dramatic, dangerous set of interventions? Dr Haim responded that science has become ideological — the unproven interventions of COVID being obvious examples. Dr Haim also explained that a main reason the medical community embraced an ideology of dangerous gender reassignment interventions, has not been in exchange for money, but rather, in a search “for meaning”. This is the most significant summary I have yet heard, from someone on the inside of privilege, of how so many souls “in our tribes” are losing what they know to be their way. Dr Haim pointed out that people (that is, “people like us”) want to feel virtuous by speaking up for “the oppressed.” However, he went on, they don’t want to take any risks by actually resisting anyone or anything powerful. So, in an absence of what used to support our lives in the form of Western, Judeo-Christian values, and in an absence of hard work devoted to building a life lived virtuously, an ideological source of life’s meaning — such as COVID-adherence “meaning”, or “gender affirming care” “meaning” – rushes in. Unsurprisingly, Dr Haim was charged with four counts of criminal HIPAA violations, days after having come forward to reveal the horrors taking place in the name of “transitioning” children at Texas Children’s Hospital.“
(An excellent essay on the abuse of power. Worth the time IMO.)