Americans must confront the scourge of child abuse amongst Hollywood elites. No, I’m not talking about the perennial problem of stage parents offering their children up as human sacrifices to the gods of fame and money. I’m talking about the abject evil of parents facilitating the transing of their normal, healthy children. It is child abuse. It must stop.

Conservatives get squeamish about this topic because they are, and rightly so, sensitive about parental rights. In addition, this phenomenon is mostly a depravity of the Left, so conservatives shrug their shoulders and figure that one less lib can now procreate, so is it really a big deal if they do it to themselves? But conservatives need to consider this: Would they sit by if their neighbor starved their anorexic child? Would a conservative nod along with parents who would, for cultural reasons, cut off their daughter’s clitoris? No, they wouldn’t.

Would any decent American sit by and knowingly allow their neighbor to sexually abuse their child and, in some cases, children? If the answer is yes, the silent neighbor is as disgusting as the German citizens sitting quietly while the Nazis down the street murder the gypsies, Poles, mentally and physically disabled, and the Jews. For too long already, Americans have sat quietly while their neighbors have taken perfectly healthy children and given them puberty-blocking drugs, chemically castrated them, and butchered them – and these are children who cannot consent themselves.

Transgendering a child is sexual abuse. In one sense, it’s worse than the helplessness-inducing victimhood of sexual abuse because the abuse is permanent. The abuse, once implemented, never ends. These children are doomed to a life of sexual dysfunction or no sexual pleasure at all, and, if they follow through with surgery, these children are doomed to a neutered lifetime where procreation can never happen. The child has his or her future decided for them: a hopeless life of pain, discomfort, and childless celibacy.

Who will stand up for these children?

This psychotic social trend is an epidemic in one population: Hollywood. The statistical likelihood of this happening amongst this one group at such an alarming rate is slim and nil. That is, there is no biological or genetic reason this population is somehow unique and therefore subject to biochemical, neurological, or hormonal peculiarities. It is quite obviously a social contagion amongst the cultural elite. The parents in this milieu must conform or be expelled, and so, rather than save their children, they abuse them. Heaven forbid they lose a part because they don’t conform to the trendy social fad that has gripped their friends in their work circle.

The evil started with Cher’s daughter, who was a beautiful child, but who now goes by “Chaz” and looks not like a man but a fat lesbian. To Cher’s credit, she didn’t encourage this phenomenon. She resisted at first, but then toxic emotional blackmail was employed. I have long suspected that the children of Hollywood parents are victims of narcissistic personality disorder and, through socialization, must outdo their self-involved famous family with something even more extreme and outrageous. Transgenderism fits the bill nicely. It can cause discomfort for even the most open-minded of parents. If Cher, the bell-bottomed hippie and queen of ’70s-era variety shows can be made dolorous, Hollywood kids have a revenge winner.

But now, it’s not just a kid striking back at his outsized personality parent, ala Magic Johnson son’s E.J. It’s the parents encouraging their children as toddlers to cross-dress and then to identify as the opposite sex.

Here is a list of Hollywood parents transing or who have cooperated with the transition of their children:

• Charlize Theron
• Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union
• Ally Sheedy
• Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green
• Jennifer Lopez
• Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
• Annette Bening and Warren Beatty
• Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest
• Drea Kelly
• Dean McDermot
• Cynthia Nixon
• Busy Phillips
• Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber

This is probably not a complete list.

The why can be debated. Is it that the parents themselves came from dysfunctional families and don’t understand proper parental boundaries? Is it that the same genetics that make someone beautiful and malleable emotionally, which makes for good acting, make for a narcissistic and unstable parent? Is it that the child of a self-involved, famous, and gorgeous person is doomed to feeling less than and small — that no accomplishment could possibly measure up to his or her parents, and so drastic measures must be taken to take up space in a place hostile to an average child? Do the parents, who reject normal development, encourage the dysfunctional and antisocial behavior because they hate what’s considered “normal”?

No matter the reason, the fact remains that the children are being put on display, and they will pay the long-term consequences — physically, sexually, and emotionally — for what is happening to them.

The media treats these celebrities as heroes. They’re viewed as sophisticated and loving rather than confused and pathological. This needs to change. It is abuse on parade. These children are crying out for help, and their parents slap them in dresses or give them a short haircut, pretending that the outward facade can cure what is a demonstration of inner anguish.

Hollywood has long abused her young. Now, the Hollywood parents of the next generation are becoming more overt. There needs to be social sanction against this abuse, both in Hollywood and everywhere in America. The parents of transgendered children should be examined for mental disorders themselves. Many of these parents have personality disorders that create psychological diseases in their children, transgenderism among them. It’s bad enough that abuse happens behind closed doors. It’s a social crime when it happens out in the open and Americans look the other way. It’s time to save the Hollywood children.

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