In Scotland, six-year-old Daniel McFadyen‘s mother insists he is transgender ever since she found him gesturing at his privates in the bathtub with scissors when he was three. Even though these parents have other sons and must have seen them all playing with themselves (boys do this, as any parent of a male toddler can tell you, and it means nothing), this will now likely result in him taking “drugs to postpone puberty as well as hormone treatments, and then have gender realignment surgery” at age 18. So now we have state-encouraged and -sponsored child mutilation, and not in a Muslim country but a Western country.

Scotland is also the country that plans to appoint a “state guardian” for every child born, who will “assess a child’s ‘wellbeing’ against eight key indicators, including factors such as whether they are safe, healthy, included and respected.” What do you want to bet this guardian will not advocate for Daniel’s right not to have his parents medically and emotionally abuse him? As Walt Heyer pointed out in these pages, forerunner cases similar to Daniel’s ended in suicide, as boys abused like this ultimately have a horrifically difficult time reaching stability upon adulthood. Big surprise.

This is not only state- but culturally sanctioned child abuse, and these phenomena are growing. As Peggy Noonan pointed out in a recent excerpt of her new book,

while I was not quite protected as a child, the prevailing American culture itself at that point still functioned as a protective force. Things hadn’t been let loose to such a degree. The messages, permissions, incitements and inducements of the culture were not rough, lowering, frightening…There are not fewer children living stressed, chaotic lives in America now — there are more. There will be more still, because among the things America no longer manufactures is stability. And the culture around them will not protect them, as the culture protected me. The culture around them will make their lives harder, more frightening, more dangerous. They are going to come up with nothing to believe in, their nerves essentially shot. And they’re going to be — they are already — very angry.

Read the article “Parents, it’s Time to Realize Big Government Is Your Enemy” on thefederalist.com.