Lefthander Liberation: What Forgotten Hero Got People to Stop Pestering Lefthanded Children to Change?

For instance, Ronald Reagan was a natural lefty trained to be a righty, but all 3 candidates in 1992 Presidential debate, Clinton, Bush, and Perot, took notes lefty.

I was discussing the recent wholly socially constructed rise of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria among female children, and somebody pointed out the 19th Century push to force left-handed children to be right-handed.

For instance, Ronald Reagan was a natural lefty trained to be a righty, but all 3 candidates in 1992 Presidential debate, Clinton, Bush, and Perot, took notes lefty. At some point, America underwent Lefty Liberation when we stopped persecuting lefties, but we never hear about it.

I’m guessing that lefthanded baseball heroes, like Ty Cobb and, especially, Babe Ruth, played a big role in ending the early 20th Century craze for forcing lefthanders to be righthanded, but I’ve never read one thing on the history.

Lefthander Liberation sounds like an interesting bit of history, but there are no annual PBS specials about it because Lefties aren’t an official identity politics group, so nobody cares that somebody or other made the world a little better by getting people to stop pestering left-handed children.

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@UnhitchingHour @Steve_Sailer @mattyglesias When you look back further in time you find that left handedness was constant throughout history save for a short period of time when we encouraged pupils to write with only their right hand

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Originally published in The Unz Review on December 14, 2022.