Posted on 12/18/2018 4:33:18 PM PST by Kaslin
The dominant story on the front page of Tuesday’s USA Today was incredibly one-sided on “transgender equality.” Above and below a picture of trans man Grayson Russo were the headlines “Some Americans are denied ‘lifesaving’ health care / Because they identify as transgender.”
Right under the headline is a large pull quote to add to the theme:
“These are lifesaving procedures, and to deny somebody a lifesaving procedure is malpractice,” announced Johanna Olson-Kennedy, director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Inside the story she added "It's incredibly problematic to put your own feelings and needs and opinions above the needs of the patient." It's ironic that transgender patients -- whose care is entirely based on feelings, not science -- lecture the so-called troglodytes about relying on their opinions.
Reporter Kristin Lam has composed a perfectly propagandistic package of LGBT advocacy. The story began by comparing the psychological “need” to amputate breasts to a cancerous tumor:
LOS ANGELES – Grayson Russo desperately needs a surgery similar to a double mastectomy.
Although someone with a breast tumor is able to promptly schedule such a surgery, Russo fought more than three years simply for approval.
That's because Russo experiences gender dysphoria, a discomfort or distress caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth. Their exhausting battle is not atypical for transgender people, who account for about 1.4 million American adults, according to a 2016 report by a UCLA think tank, and that's despite organizations such as the American Medical Association recognizing treatment for gender dysphoria as medically necessary.
There is not an uncomfortable whisper of disagreement with LGBT orthodoxy. No one questions that amputations of breasts and penises can be medically (or scientifically) defined as "lifesaving." In fact, the word "amputation" is nowhere employed. A caption on 6A uses the trans euphemism: "Grayson Russo, 23, got approval in November for top surgery but will have to wait for about six months. The words "top surgery" aren't even put in quotation marks.
Everyone Lam cited agrees on the urgency of politically correct transgender policy to break down "barriers to accessing health care."
– Grayson Russo, trans man
– Harper Jean Tobin, National Center for Transgender Equality
– Kimberly Zieselman, interACT advocates for “intersex youth”
– Alex Keuroghlian, diredctor of the National LGBT Health Education Center
– Olson-Kennedy
– Hope Jensen, Transgender Health Coordinator at the Feminist Women’s Health Canter in Atlanta
– Aubrey, 16-year-old who “wanted to omit her last name to avoid further conflict with parents,” who obviously don’t matter to USA Today.
PS: In the longer online version, Lam descends into complete PC pronoun dementia by describing a single person as a They:
Shannon McGinty, 25, of Portland, Maine, drives nearly three hours to Fenway about once a month. Transgender and gender nonconforming, they try to stay at their parents’ place in Massachusetts before or after appointments. The time and cost adds up, but they say traveling is worth it.
Three years ago, McGinty wasn't aware of Fenway or its treatment options. Back then, McGinty’s dysphoria took such a visible toll that their primary care doctor asked them what was going on. Once they shared they were struggling with their gender identity, the doctor gave what McGinty describes as a life-altering recommendation.
[PHOTO CAPTION: Shannon McGinty smiles at a waterfall swimming hole in September 2016, three months after they had top surgery.]
After a couple of months of therapy at Fenway, beginning November 2015, McGinty decided they needed top surgery for their mental health and chose the center for primary care. By April, they got a consultation with a surgeon after finishing the approval process for insurance. The surgery was done in June 2016.
Insurance covered two-thirds of the $10,000 procedure, deeming the remainder as cosmetic.
McGinty takes a birth control injection that suppresses their menstrual cycle.
Damn,that’s VERY clever, :-)
.
Needless to say he was drunk
Denial of truth again. So now it is called ‘TOP SURGERY’. I wonder how the medical coders submit the procedure code (CPT) for that? Laf.
I don’t care what these whack jobs want to cut off, long as they pay for it out of their own pockets. Neither insurance nor the taxpayers should have to chip in.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/19/transgender-regret-is-real-even-if-the-media-tell-you-otherwise/
The left thinks it’s totally OK to encourage people to be mentally ill.
So why don’t these supposedly ‘supportive’ TRANS organizations raise money in the TRANS community to fund this bullshit? Why should taxpayers pay for this ELECTIVE surgery?
Don't believe that number for a minute.
So, where do these people stand on Islamic genital mutilation?
He was dorky looking as a man ... He’s butt-ugly as a female impersonator.
It's a fraud, coming from the same pathological liars who claim 10% of people are faggots.
Whatever happened to “two bricks - it doesn’t hurt if you watch your thumbs”
Yup.
Diversity, first step in divide and conquer.
sex is not “assigned at birth”, it’s determined biologically at conception.
If it’s “life saving” surgery, why do so many commit suicide after having it done?
The entire front page was anti-Trump propaganda.
I would not give 2 cents for that rag.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
Control the language
Redefine what words mean
Frame the debate
Sick puppies of all kinds are a big Democrat voter base.
Pandering to them is a no-brainer for the D’s.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.