This report from Grand View Research highlights one aspect of the entire debate over transgenderism that generally doesn’t receive as much attention as the contentious social issues surrounding it. Who is really benefitting from this rapidly spreading social contagion? If you’re being at all honest, we know it’s not the patients who undergo these irreversible surgical procedures, particularly when it comes to children. But somebody is obviously benefitting, and that would be the medical facilities performing these surgeries. “Sex reassignment surgery” has rapidly blossomed into a very lucrative industry. The “market” for these procedures is now valued at nearly two billion dollars annually and is projected to grow to as much as ten billion by the end of the decade. What’s truly shocking and dismaying is the cold, clinical way the linked report describes these figures and procedures as if they are just another item in your stock portfolio.

The U.S. sex reassignment surgery market size was valued at USD 1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.23% from 2022 to 2030. The rising incidences of gender dysphoria and the increasing number of people opting for gender confirmation surgeries are expected to boost the growth during the forecast period. According to a study conducted by Cedars Sinai in June 2020, approximately 78% of transgender males experienced gender dysphoria by the age of 7. The mean age to experience gender dysphoria was less in transgender males, which is about 6.2 years.

Sex reassignment surgeries are performed by a multispecialty staff that usually involves board-certified or licensed plastic surgeons. The objective of surgical procedures is to give transgender individuals the functional abilities and physical appearance of the gender they align their emotional and psychological identity with.

While the cash value of this “market” is skyrocketing, the number of surgeries being reported is also mind-bending. They are reporting that there were approximately 11,000 “sex reassignment” surgeries performed in 2019. That was a 15% increase over the previous year. They are projecting that number to soar into multiple tens of thousands by 2030 if this trend doesn’t turn around.

If you go back as few as ten or fifteen years, the number of surgeries of this type being performed was only a handful by comparison. Research shows that the number of these procedures being performed more than quadrupled from 2000 to 2014 and it has grown even faster ever since. The rate did slow a bit during the pandemic, along with everything else, but it’s already climbing again.

Keep in mind that the amount of money under discussion isn’t coming from a one-off procedure. As one administrator at Boston Children’s Hospital informed us in a now-deleted video, these surgeries create patients (and revenue) for life. If you surgically remove a potentially cancerous mole from someone’s leg or sew up their injuries after a traffic accident, they may just go home. And barring later complications or new injuries or illnesses, you may never see them again. That’s because you were actually healing them.

But the patients in these surgeries will have to keep on returning because you intentionally inflicted a wound in them that will need to be tended to for the rest of their lives. And those procedures don’t even include all of the revenue that will be generated by the endless hormones and other cocktails you’ll need to keep pumping into them.

I can’t be the only one who is highly disturbed by this trend. We’re talking about tens of thousands of people voluntarily undergoing irreversible damage to their bodies. Women or girls who have their breasts removed will never be able to breastfeed a baby, even if they somehow manage to get pregnant with all of the foreign hormones swirling around in their bodies. If they undergo genital mutilation, there will be no babies at all. And for the men? At an early age, how were you talked into a procedure where you will never again have an orgasm for the rest of your life? And you certainly won’t be having any children. Of course, you could always try to adopt, but I think adoption really may not be the best choice for you if you have that many other issues to deal with.

To be clear (yet again), I’m not saying the government should dictate your choices for you. If you are an adult capable of granting informed consent, you can have anything done to you that a doctor is willing to provide. Dress how you like and call yourself whatever you want. But I truly wish more people would consider a serious course of talk therapy with a competent mental health professional before diving into something so radical, drastic, and irreversible.