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Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman (This is About Culture and Biology)
National Review ^ | 08.23.13 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 08/23/2013 7:21:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup

...The DOJ has placed its imprimatur upon a fantasy involving a legendary creature: the person of one sex trapped in the body of a person of another sex...

...We have created a rhetoric of “gender identity” that is disconnected from biological sexual fact, and we have done so largely in the service of enabling the sexual mutilation of physically healthy men and women (significantly more men) by medical authorities who should be barred by professional convention if not by conscience from the removal of healthy organs (and limbs, more on that later), an act that by any reasonable standard ought to be considered mutilation rather than therapy. This is not to discount the feelings of people who suffer from gender-identity disorders —...


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...We have created a rhetoric of “gender identity” that is disconnected from biological sexual fact, and we have done so largely in the service of enabling the sexual mutilation of physically healthy men and women (significantly more men) by medical authorities who should be barred by professional convention if not by conscience from the removal of healthy organs (and limbs, more on that later), an act that by any reasonable standard ought to be considered mutilation rather than therapy. This is not to discount the feelings of people who suffer from gender-identity disorders ...

An interesting article by someone who has been involved and thinking about this topic for a long time.

1 posted on 08/23/2013 7:21:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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The insane agenda is to eliminate the concept of gender.


2 posted on 08/23/2013 7:22:52 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Chickensoup

As I predicted allowing openly declared gays to serve in the military would lead to a break down in discipline. And that is precisely what has happened.


3 posted on 08/23/2013 7:23:44 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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Now, we get to pay for this little POS to be made into a freak, feed and clothe him for the rest of his life.

He should have been shot, long ago.


4 posted on 08/23/2013 7:24:08 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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The article is not really about Manning. It was in the magazine and gives a lot to think about.


5 posted on 08/23/2013 7:25:25 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Read the article, it is not about Manning and NRO did a disservice by changing the title from its original printed version.


6 posted on 08/23/2013 7:26:29 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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He is NOT a woman, but we could ease his pain by hanging him as a traitor.


7 posted on 08/23/2013 7:27:59 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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Right and to marginalize ‘normalcy’ altogether. What the he&^... it worked to marginalize Conservatism, didn't it?!!
8 posted on 08/23/2013 7:28:24 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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Maybe that’s the real issue... Manning just doesn’t want to be hung.


9 posted on 08/23/2013 7:32:38 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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Agree 2000%.

Here is a thought experiment, what would happen to an individual who went to a doctor and claimed that inside they were really a goat instead of a person, and wanted to be surgically altered to reflect their "true self" ?

10 posted on 08/23/2013 7:34:02 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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Thinking they are a person of another gender trapped inside is a common psychotic fantasy. They are mentally ill. Do you really think Manning is a normal individual?


11 posted on 08/23/2013 7:34:37 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Vlad the Impaler proposed no path to citizenhip. Consider that.)
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He talks in the article, about some poor soul who wanted to be a tiger.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 7:34:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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Self loathing humans


13 posted on 08/23/2013 7:34:58 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: Oberon
Manning just doesn’t want to be hung.

Pun intended?

14 posted on 08/23/2013 7:34:58 AM PDT by glorgau
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“The insane agenda is to eliminate the concept of gender.”

Yep. And the concept of the difference in species is also threatened. A boy is a pig is a dog is a frog or whatever PETA says. Because it is so much easier to treat us as cattle or rats when there is alledgedly no difference.


15 posted on 08/23/2013 7:37:10 AM PDT by rey
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he’ll be someone’s “woman” after a few weeks in jail


16 posted on 08/23/2013 7:38:17 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: glorgau

Oh, you know it!


17 posted on 08/23/2013 7:40:47 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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Excellent article ... somebody with the courage to speak truth to fiction.


18 posted on 08/23/2013 7:43:00 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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It is a measure of the intellectual degradation of our times that the physical reality of these cases is considered, if it is considered at all, a distant second to the subjective impressions of people who are, not to put too fine a point on it, mentally ill and in need of treatment.

It is an excellent article.

19 posted on 08/23/2013 7:51:10 AM PDT by ecomcon
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I wonder what happens when genetic technology gets good enough to have something like a ‘perfect sex change.’ I mean actually altering things on a cellular/dna/chromosomes level and growing all the different stuff so it actually would work naturally. Would that be a whole new person? I mean if you look at the level of medical ability 500 years ago compared to today, I don’t see how that would be beyond the realm of possibility 500 years from now or sooner.

Freegards


20 posted on 08/23/2013 7:52:13 AM PDT by Ransomed
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