I recently worked on a film called "Derosa: A Life in Transition" (on Amazon). This was my first exposure up close to this subject and I found it to be interesting, even touching. I also found that many people (adults) that go through this have a good reason and don't flaunt it. Those that do flaunt it fall into the same camp as those that flaunt their sexuality for attention. If you have to attach a political agenda to your sexuality, you're not a serious person in my opinion. I also believe it is 100% wrong to push sexuality on minors in any way - the same as it would be to support child porn. I have gay friends and now a trans friend, but not once have any of them tried to push any agenda on me. You know why? Because they're serious people, not attention seekers. Let's sober up people. Live and LET live, not Live like me or not at all.
Who in the world ever thought that this whole thing is organic? There is nothing organic about this. Only when young children began being told that they could be who- or whatever they believe themselves to be did this thing become a 'thing'. Isn't it rather convenient that this all began being pushed on young children who naturally have very creative imaginations, as they should. And that is what adults are for - responsible adults anyhow who have the best interests of children in mind, and not political agendas. For every adult out there who supports, has supported and reinforced the idea of 'being whatever a child feels that he or she is', specifically regarding sex or gender, those adults are guilty of abuse in that they have taken advantage of a young child's naturally creative imagination and utilized it to truly screw up that child's mind (in the interest of their own political agendas). These people should be punished to the fullest allowable by law. Young boys frequently play dress up, in mom's clothes and high heels, for example. But that's all play. It doesn't indicate that the boys are females. A boy claiming to believe that he is a girl, supported by an adult, is dishonest, deceitful, misleading, and mentally abusive. Further, the adult supporting a child's belief that he or she is opposite their biological sex only propels that child into a class of people who have the highest suicide rate. Why? Because it does not matter what one does to their body through surgery, surgical excision, the addition of surgically created anatomy that serves no purpose other than optics but is non-functional, clothes and make-up - at the end of the day, they are still their biological sex and that can NEVER be changed. We are born as either male or female with a very minute .001% of those who at birth are more ambiguous in between (but we aren't talking about those people here). Encouraging those who are diagnosed truly gender dysphoric to surgically alter themselves and supporting their mental delusion that they can be what they choose if it conflicts with their birth gender is criminal in my opinion. The correct response to them should be counseling them to love themselves for who they are and reinforcing the fact that regardless of what we feel we may be, we are whst our genetics indicate that we are and that is unchangeable.
For the record, I am a gay male and have had my fair share of interactions with those who consider themselves to be 'trans'. Please withhold your '-whatever-o-phobic' remarks. The only fear on my part is encouraging children to engage in a life of a lie that is rife with drug abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and a high suicide rate. And once one surgically alters themselves, there is no going back. The biological male who thinks he'll become a female will never have a functional penis that becomes erect if/when he 'detransitions'. The biological female who thinks she'll become a boy will never bear a child or breastfeed if/when she 'detransitions'. Both will likely lose all ability to achieve organs and a fulfilling sex life. Both will also likely have very difficult adulthood full of complications and necessary surgical operations for one thing or the other, primarily with regard to the genitalia. Osteoporosis is common. These are just SOME of the difficulties in life that (what are supposed to be responsible) adults subject young children to by encouraging their creative imaginations and supporting their desire to 'transition'. There is a reason why young children are minors and are dependent upon responsible adults and parents who encourage healthy lifestyle choices, telling them what is what and not being directed around by their own children. Any adult who encourages a child to be subjected to such lifelong complications including premature death, in my opinion, is not an adult but an irresponsible person who has no business having children of their own. They are child abusers and must be punished yo the full extent allowed by the law. I include any and every doctor who would perform such procedures on a child knowing damn good and well that they are forever damaging a young child who only needed good parenting and direction ( all for money of course, their patients be damned).
And again, this is not organic. For any so interested, it would be worthwhile researching transhumanism and a post-human society. Sound like a conspiracy? Think again.
Good article and thinking points. When I was age 9 or 10-- the idea of breasts and menstruation was horrifying. I just wanted to be a kid. Glad to say it all worked out how it was meant to be, and I became who I was born to be.
I personally don't support schools and medical professionals getting involved in
a parenting situation. It's called Parenting for a reason...I also agree that being of a certain age-- also gives me some peace.
Nature”boy” — are you incapable of grasping satire? Was there something early on in this piece that led you to believe this was some kind of fair and balanced reporting? This piece reflects the correct view of what is a homophobic and misogynistic Gender Identity agenda.
Whenever I hear a negative, almost hateful comment like this, I think "Why is this person so hateful and negative"? I bet you also think you're a "tolerant, all inclusive person". You, Natureboy, prove showed how bias exists on your part.
Children (most of whom would grow up to be gay) can no more "consent" to have their healthy breasts and genitalia removed or take puberty blockers than they can "consent" to have sex with an adult. Similarly, parents and doctors can no more approve such permanent mutilation simply because a minor child desires it than they can approve their participation in pedophilia.
Ultimately society will see the truth and ban the practice as we have banned female genital mutilation. Do people support that practice if the parents consent? I truly hope not. It is monstrous to believe otherwise and those who do will ultimately be held to account for their actions. The obscene (now happily fired) bureaucrat Richard Levine among those in the dock.
Thanks for reading and commenting. Some people have drawn conclusions and others do not know if they are an ideologue or a phobe. Thus, by extracting polar opposite positions from other publications and placing them side by side, people can measure where they stand.
Test question 4 states, "If you think that the only way to align the body and mind of a person with gender dysphoria is surgery, then add 8 points to column A"
But no medical professional (that's right, literally no one) is asserting that the "ONLY" way to treat a person with gender dysphoria is ever any one single thing. What is asserted is that surgery may be right FOR AN INDIVIDUAL CASE but much like every other medical condition a course of treatment must be set for each individual patient. Whether you are talking about treatments for cancer, narcolepsy, Klinefelter syndrome, or any other condition, the treatment that is right for a patient will vary from patient to patient.
And, to be very very clear, no medical professional (that's right, literally no one) is asserting otherwise for gender dysphoria. Therefore, a "test" that poses one-and-only-one answer as a "right" answer, is irretrievably flawed.
Thanks for commenting. There are enough institutions and enterprises that are on a single path of surgery. Next week’s episode you can hear how Kaiser medicalization and industrialization has replaced contemplative care. The test is about weighing the extremes as they have been presented in other publications.
Dude, did you have your sense of humor surgically removed? People whose response to satire is to become pedantic need to spend some time in a dunk tank.
I recently worked on a film called "Derosa: A Life in Transition" (on Amazon). This was my first exposure up close to this subject and I found it to be interesting, even touching. I also found that many people (adults) that go through this have a good reason and don't flaunt it. Those that do flaunt it fall into the same camp as those that flaunt their sexuality for attention. If you have to attach a political agenda to your sexuality, you're not a serious person in my opinion. I also believe it is 100% wrong to push sexuality on minors in any way - the same as it would be to support child porn. I have gay friends and now a trans friend, but not once have any of them tried to push any agenda on me. You know why? Because they're serious people, not attention seekers. Let's sober up people. Live and LET live, not Live like me or not at all.
Who in the world ever thought that this whole thing is organic? There is nothing organic about this. Only when young children began being told that they could be who- or whatever they believe themselves to be did this thing become a 'thing'. Isn't it rather convenient that this all began being pushed on young children who naturally have very creative imaginations, as they should. And that is what adults are for - responsible adults anyhow who have the best interests of children in mind, and not political agendas. For every adult out there who supports, has supported and reinforced the idea of 'being whatever a child feels that he or she is', specifically regarding sex or gender, those adults are guilty of abuse in that they have taken advantage of a young child's naturally creative imagination and utilized it to truly screw up that child's mind (in the interest of their own political agendas). These people should be punished to the fullest allowable by law. Young boys frequently play dress up, in mom's clothes and high heels, for example. But that's all play. It doesn't indicate that the boys are females. A boy claiming to believe that he is a girl, supported by an adult, is dishonest, deceitful, misleading, and mentally abusive. Further, the adult supporting a child's belief that he or she is opposite their biological sex only propels that child into a class of people who have the highest suicide rate. Why? Because it does not matter what one does to their body through surgery, surgical excision, the addition of surgically created anatomy that serves no purpose other than optics but is non-functional, clothes and make-up - at the end of the day, they are still their biological sex and that can NEVER be changed. We are born as either male or female with a very minute .001% of those who at birth are more ambiguous in between (but we aren't talking about those people here). Encouraging those who are diagnosed truly gender dysphoric to surgically alter themselves and supporting their mental delusion that they can be what they choose if it conflicts with their birth gender is criminal in my opinion. The correct response to them should be counseling them to love themselves for who they are and reinforcing the fact that regardless of what we feel we may be, we are whst our genetics indicate that we are and that is unchangeable.
For the record, I am a gay male and have had my fair share of interactions with those who consider themselves to be 'trans'. Please withhold your '-whatever-o-phobic' remarks. The only fear on my part is encouraging children to engage in a life of a lie that is rife with drug abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and a high suicide rate. And once one surgically alters themselves, there is no going back. The biological male who thinks he'll become a female will never have a functional penis that becomes erect if/when he 'detransitions'. The biological female who thinks she'll become a boy will never bear a child or breastfeed if/when she 'detransitions'. Both will likely lose all ability to achieve organs and a fulfilling sex life. Both will also likely have very difficult adulthood full of complications and necessary surgical operations for one thing or the other, primarily with regard to the genitalia. Osteoporosis is common. These are just SOME of the difficulties in life that (what are supposed to be responsible) adults subject young children to by encouraging their creative imaginations and supporting their desire to 'transition'. There is a reason why young children are minors and are dependent upon responsible adults and parents who encourage healthy lifestyle choices, telling them what is what and not being directed around by their own children. Any adult who encourages a child to be subjected to such lifelong complications including premature death, in my opinion, is not an adult but an irresponsible person who has no business having children of their own. They are child abusers and must be punished yo the full extent allowed by the law. I include any and every doctor who would perform such procedures on a child knowing damn good and well that they are forever damaging a young child who only needed good parenting and direction ( all for money of course, their patients be damned).
And again, this is not organic. For any so interested, it would be worthwhile researching transhumanism and a post-human society. Sound like a conspiracy? Think again.
Good article and thinking points. When I was age 9 or 10-- the idea of breasts and menstruation was horrifying. I just wanted to be a kid. Glad to say it all worked out how it was meant to be, and I became who I was born to be.
I personally don't support schools and medical professionals getting involved in
a parenting situation. It's called Parenting for a reason...I also agree that being of a certain age-- also gives me some peace.
Clear, concise, common sense.
Thank you Peter. Wonder if your score was a surprise or not?
No surprise at all
What a biased piece -of-garbage article promoting one vision only
Curious which direction you believe this is biased.
First question labels me either a homophobe or a flamer: no middle ground
Nature”boy” — are you incapable of grasping satire? Was there something early on in this piece that led you to believe this was some kind of fair and balanced reporting? This piece reflects the correct view of what is a homophobic and misogynistic Gender Identity agenda.
Whenever I hear a negative, almost hateful comment like this, I think "Why is this person so hateful and negative"? I bet you also think you're a "tolerant, all inclusive person". You, Natureboy, prove showed how bias exists on your part.
Children (most of whom would grow up to be gay) can no more "consent" to have their healthy breasts and genitalia removed or take puberty blockers than they can "consent" to have sex with an adult. Similarly, parents and doctors can no more approve such permanent mutilation simply because a minor child desires it than they can approve their participation in pedophilia.
Ultimately society will see the truth and ban the practice as we have banned female genital mutilation. Do people support that practice if the parents consent? I truly hope not. It is monstrous to believe otherwise and those who do will ultimately be held to account for their actions. The obscene (now happily fired) bureaucrat Richard Levine among those in the dock.
Rich, I think you know where I stand on this. My only comment is I am glad I only have a few years left on this earth.
Thanks for reading and commenting. Some people have drawn conclusions and others do not know if they are an ideologue or a phobe. Thus, by extracting polar opposite positions from other publications and placing them side by side, people can measure where they stand.
Proud to “B” 100% Column B…
Test question 4 states, "If you think that the only way to align the body and mind of a person with gender dysphoria is surgery, then add 8 points to column A"
But no medical professional (that's right, literally no one) is asserting that the "ONLY" way to treat a person with gender dysphoria is ever any one single thing. What is asserted is that surgery may be right FOR AN INDIVIDUAL CASE but much like every other medical condition a course of treatment must be set for each individual patient. Whether you are talking about treatments for cancer, narcolepsy, Klinefelter syndrome, or any other condition, the treatment that is right for a patient will vary from patient to patient.
And, to be very very clear, no medical professional (that's right, literally no one) is asserting otherwise for gender dysphoria. Therefore, a "test" that poses one-and-only-one answer as a "right" answer, is irretrievably flawed.
Thanks for commenting. There are enough institutions and enterprises that are on a single path of surgery. Next week’s episode you can hear how Kaiser medicalization and industrialization has replaced contemplative care. The test is about weighing the extremes as they have been presented in other publications.
Dude, did you have your sense of humor surgically removed? People whose response to satire is to become pedantic need to spend some time in a dunk tank.
Delve