Posted on 04/25/2015 1:52:32 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Washington (CNN)Rep. Mike Honda this week became one of the first lawmakers in Congress to support the idea of a gender spectrum and publicly announce a family member, his granddaughter, is transgender.
The California Democrat urged acceptance of transgender individuals in a profile of his 8-year-old granddaughter Malisa, who was born a boy, in the San Jose Mercury News.
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People may say, "It's just a phase or they'll grow out of it," Honda told the paper.
"But we have to be a little bit more in tune with what youngsters are telling us. From there we can develop better solutions, be more thoughtful," he added.
The congressman, who is a member of the House LGBTQ caucus, hadn't publicly spoken about his granddaughter's transition until recently.
He had the family take a new photo for his campaign materials last cycle to reflect his granddaughter's new identity, telling Malisa that "we need you to be who you are in the campaign photos."
On Wednesday, he brought it to wider attention with a tweet saying he's the "proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild."
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You pretty much have to relegate yourself to watching old movies and tv-shows to encounter displays of masculinity and manliness nowadays.
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No, I just have to watch my dear, dear husband.
Would you know the ratio of boys who become females to girls who become males? I don’t know but it seems that there are more boys who want to become females?
It’s just awful — and I agree with all three of your posts (and thank you).
Watching old westerns right now, with real men in them ...
considering that we have become somewhat used to the feminization..of America...most of the time...it slips by almost unoticed..
then we get news of a Brucie Jenner incident...and are forced scratch our heads for a moment
You really said it.
There was a children’s book that came out a few years ago that was about a boy who liked to wear dresses.
I remember reading an article/s about that crazy couple in Sweden, several years ago. And the same thing has been going on in this country too. Now, it is more "profitable" for the whole "transgendered" codswallop! This is CHILD ABUSE, pure and simple !
I think he should be hung by the neck until dead.
It's up to us and the rest of the sane people to raise sane, intelligent, well informed, NORMAL kids and grandkids by exposing them to good old movies, great old books, and allow them to learn by our example.
Sometimes I believe western society has too much free time on its hand.
If this woman was a little more stressed and having to work hard for a living, she wouldn’t have the time to conjure up all this silly garbage.
I believe that. However, even if I were an atheistic Darwinist, I could look at mammalian biology and say, "There is male and female for reproductive purposes. Anything else is a counter-evolutionary error."
I wonder if some of these doctors and psychiatrists who support transgenderism are not suffering from a form of Munchhausens themselves.
I don't care WHAT the parents/grandparents claim....no 2 or 3 year old knows what the word "transgender" means, nor understands the concept! Little kids LOVE to play "dress-up" and don't usually care what the "costume" they devise actually is.
OTOH....there are grownups who want to be "animals" and wear costumes and pretend that they are dogs, cats, whatever; they even hold conventions. They're nuts too !
Maybe it’s the hormones fed to the cows causing the uptrend? I don’t believe it, but it makes a good story.
Hillary has a grand kid now, and you can bet her campaign team is weighing the pros and cons as we speak.
Extremely Extreme Extremist and whoever else said it’s cultural is absolutely correct, especially the one of you who mentioned the goals of the Communists.
This particular attack was from the Theodor Adorno and Wilhelm Reich side of the Frankfurt School. Herbert Marcuse was the tactician who was able to take the philosophy and weaponize it into the psychological attacks that the Left uses to shut opponents up.
Marcuse’s disciples Alinsky, Marshall Kirk, and Hunter Madsen further refined the techniques, and now the Internet is able to amplify the attacks to nuclear-bomb level.
Tumblr is the website where practically all of this poison is coming from. It is manufactured there and propagated mainly by Twitter (though other sites are used as well, but not as strongly).
Just Google any of the names I’ve mentioned, and you’ll see where this all originates. Gyorgy Lukacs and Antonio Gramsci are two more you can search for, but they are the master architects of the entire culture war, not tacticians.
Historically, the mutilated are eunuchs.
You cannot talk sense to a fool.
Today’s movies are generally simply awful, dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, rude, crude, nasty. When I see some of the previews... just non-stop explosions and perversion. Love the TCM channel and my old videos/DVDs.
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