Better to be Wrong?

In the 19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) suggested that doctors should wash their hands between patients.  It so happened that roughly 10% to 15% of women were dying after childbirth.  However, Semmelweis was able to reduce that to less than 1% through his handwashing regimen.  He called for all doctors to do this.  They called him crazy, and he eventually died in a mental institution.  A doctor who had tried Semmelweis' handwashing found that deaths did indeed plummet.  The realization that he had killed so many of his patients led him to commit suicide.  To embrace Semmelweis was to also accept that they had fatally infected many of their patients.  For their own sanity, doctors rejected Semmelweis.

Recently, I listened to a woman - Helen Joyce - who said that the trans debate is not going to fade away.  There are too many parents who have had their children surgically transitioned.  They are committed to the trans camp for life.  To accept that transgender is a mental disorder that should be treated as such is to admit to needlessly mutilating - and likely sterilizing - their children.  Better to stay the course.  In fact, not just stay the course but, like the doctors opposing Semmelweis, denounce those who argue against transgender.  This also applies to abortion.  Those on the pro-choice side are locked into their views because the alternative means they have championed infanticide.  No one wants to swallow that pill.