telling you this forever!
The recovered-memory movement is a good example of this. In the 1980s and 1990s, the therapeutic community in the US pioneered a technique that supposedly allowed adults to dredge up repressed memories of child abuse, sometimes even from when they were babies.
… Like most of the other hysterias, this one died in a quiet way. Studies emerged showing that these poor, suggestible patients had memories of abuse basically implanted in them by their therapists. No apologies were made and there was no effort to ensure that this sort of therapy never happened again. Little by little, people simply moved on to the next mania.
True, but I really don’t think it was “studies” that put an end to the execrable “Recovered Memory” fad. It was that therapists were getting successfully sued, and malpractice insurance companies started howling!
It ended up that anyone who continued to do this crap would have to do so without liability protection. Malpractice insurance carriers were battered, bruised, and bleeding and frantically heading for the exits! So therapists stopped doing it and pretended that they never did.
I remember well. I was there.
And I suspect it is (and will be) the same with the “trans” butchers surgeons and their lackeys. Even now, people are starting to sue for BIG damages. Surgeons and hospitals are being faced with large malpractice judgments against them. And they don’t like it. The disfiguring “fad” is NOT over, but I can see the end from here!
And who wants to be the last teen sexually mutilated for this goofy cause?