Posted on 06/04/2011 4:14:02 AM PDT by massmike
The public hearing for the Massachusetts "Transgender Rights and Hate Crimes Bill" H502 will be held in the State House next Wednesday, June 8.
The transgender movement has been flooding the legislators with their emotional stories and their general disinformation, including bitter complaints about "discrimination" and demands for transgender "civil rights".
But there's another side - the truth - that needs to be heard. It's about what this unfortunate and tragic disorder is really about, and how it harms the people engaging in it and the people around them.
The following testimony was sent to MassResistance from Denise Shick in North Carolina, who runs the valuable website Help 4 Families about transgenderism and its effects on people.
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Denise Shick
http://www.help4families.com/
Author of “My Daddy’s Secret,” “When Hope Seems Lost,”
and “Families with Gender Identity”
Testimony in Opposition to House Bill H502
for Massachusetts Joint Judiciary Committee
June 8, 2011
At the age of nine my dad shared with me his desire to become a woman. He stated he had been sexually molested as a young child and continued sharing several sordid sexual details that no child should hear.
My dad told me that I would know if he was feeling like a woman when I would see him sitting with his legs crossed over as women do when they wear a dress. I believed I was to blame for his problem because I was a girl. I had great concern for my dad and at the same time I had lost my security. I was confused and hurt.
I had discovered my dad had a peek hole through the bathroom wall. Because of my dad’s behavior I had lost my privacy in the bathroom. He watched me as I showered, dressed, did my hair and make up. There was no privacy when I would go to the bathroom at times. This was insane to me as he lived his desires through my very steps. As a child and young teenager I struggled with my own sexuality and questioned my own gender as I lived in this environment.
My dad’s struggle had truly become my struggle as I fought for my freedom and my sanity. My dad caused emotional and physical pain when he started fondling my breasts. He would tackle me to the ground and grasp my breasts so tightly that it hurt. I remember thinking how wrong this was while he lay on top of me. My dad desired breasts so badly that he seemed to think by laying his body on top of my body he could fantasize that my breasts were his.
As a result of my personal experience I had struggled at times if life was worth living. I also struggled with prolonged and unresolved grief, Sadness, Shame of being a girl, Difficulties with intimacy and trust in relationships as well a sense of not belonging.
I found some relief as a teenager by becoming involved with drinking alcohol. I needed a way to escape and feel accepted by my peers, especially boys, since I had not felt accepted by my dad as his daughter or as a girl.
My father, although employed chose to spend his money on women’s clothing. As a result, my siblings and I often had to pour water over our cereal instead of milk. There were times when I was hungry and could only find a raw potato to eat.
During a radio interview I was asked, “In what way was your life different then any other teenage daughter”? I replied “Most Teenage daughters do not need to worry if their dad had worn their bras and underwear while they were at school!!!
Because of my personal experience I have written a book titled “My Daddy’s Secret” in order to bring a broader understanding of how the children are impacted. I have written the book When Hope Seems Lost to bring another step of understanding to families and leaders.
I also have a ministry that reaches out to the families affected by this issue. If you give special rights to special interest groups, there will be an increase in the harassment that is already occurring against the ex-transsexual, their families, and the ministries like mine. Who will be protecting our rights?
I ask that you do not approve House Bill H502 as this will be harmful to innocent children and young people who are most impressionable, just as I was. The unexpected consequences of this bill will affect children.
I ask that you consider the following reasons:
1) Bill H502 will put children at risk with sexual and gender confusion.
2) Bill H502 will open the door for pedophiles causing physical and emotional harm in young lives.
3) My dad violated my privacy until I was 18 and moved out of our home. No woman deserves that. This bill would violate women’s privacy in restrooms lockers and shower just like my dad violated mine but now it would government mandated. Please vote no to H502.
Instead, I ask you to speak for therapy and alternative programs that would benefit people, like my dad and their families.
If you approve Bill H502 you will be encouraging this behavior at the children’s expense.
Thank you.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO
the Transgender Rights STOP
Bill #H502/S764.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt11/tranny_bill/TransRightsBillFlyer.pdf
Text of Bill H502
http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/House/H00502
Those with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) a neurological and psychological disorder that makes sufferers feel they would be happier living as an amputee, typically accompanied by the desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs to achieve that end have exactly the same problem as transgender people. If it weren't for the fact that libs would take it seriously, I'd like to link the two desires politically. There is no mental health difference between wanting to amputate your leg and wanting to amputate your genitals.
Don’t we already have enough discrimination and “hate” crimes laws?
Wouldn’t this come under civil rights law?
Enough with singling people out. This is just crazy.
And there have always been those who would mutilate others sexually for various reasons.
The biblical term is “eunuch”.
The surgery is better now, but the ancient problem is still with us.
Are there any “mis-gendered” people in third-world countries? Or is this merely a phenomenon of first-world people who have the luxury and time to dither in this nonsense? I’d say some people have too much time on their hands.
A society that cherishes its children does not applaud the sordid and the licentious. A society that loves its children does not murder them in the womb. As a society we do not love and cherish our children.
The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. If we persist in the ways of evil this will be the final stand of holiness. God will not be mocked, nor will unrighteous men or their country be saved.
At least 35 years ago, Truman Capote wrote about a fascinating episode from his childhood which ended with him telling an unsympathetic listener that he believed he was a little girl. Luckily for Mr. Capote, there were no doctors willing to mutilate a little boy. He grew up and poured his frustrations and unhappiness into his literature and we are better for it. There are many ways to channel unhappiness.
For those who don’t know or remember, Truman Capote was the author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He was also the prototype of Dill, the eccentric little boy in the novel and movie To Kill a Mockingbird.
Yes. Indonesia and Thailand are particularly noted for men who want to be women, but the disorder is found in other societies as well.
There are mentally ill people in all countries.
Until they can ‘change’ chromosomes, there is _no such thing_ as “transgender”.
If you are born a man or woman, you will die as the same, regardless of what you get cut off, sewn on or medically altered.
Period.
Go out one day dressed as a chicken, expecting to be “recognized and treated legally” as a chicken and see how long it takes for somebody to throw a well deserved net over you.
Asia is full of them.
In Thailand they are leagally a third sex.
Are these second- or third- world countries? Because where people are scraping for subsistence, I wonder if they have the time to worry about their gender. I believe it’s an obsession of the “idle”, for one thing. I’m not necessarily talking about races of people, but their economies.
The medical profession there balked, so they have outsourced the surgeries to Thailand.
The dark side of the “transgender” movement?!?!
Huh? Is this a joke. Can’t imagine a bright and light side. Just unspeakably sad and tragic.
I always thought civil rights apply to everyone. Why, then, are so many people wanting to carve out special “civil” rights that apply only to them?
Go out one day dressed as a chicken, and whoever throws a net over you might be working for KFC and you could wind up as
“Try Our Colonel Sanders Xtra Jumbo All White Meat Bucket-o-Loser Special!”
(sorry....)
Anyway, the chromosomes you’re conceived with are the ones you will die with. How can this `transgender’ nonsense be thought of as anything other than serious mental illness?
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