Posted on 05/11/2015 10:47:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Absolutely true, and howling non-PC!
Excellent distillation of the issue...
Basically, you can change the upholstery and some of the more obvious furnishings, but the original ‘person’ is still there inside, and has not changed like the exterior.
Common sense --- finally. No matter how many hormones you take, or how radical the surgery; you are the sex you were born. As for the suicide rates, I have been saying for years that if you really cared about these people, you would not allow this surgery to go on. Perhaps those of us who oppose this are the ones who are truly caring about the person involved.
The old joke on Michael Jackson was that ‘Only in America can a handsome young black man grow up to be an ugly old white woman.’
My point is that they’ll find some “expert” from some obscure hole in the wall and parade him as their counterbalance. You’re right, I probably should have said some Masshole or Ivy Lisper.
There is no such thing as “sex-reassignment”. Hormones, chemicals, surgical mutilation and ignoring mental illness is not sex reassignment.
It is nice to see some movement on a subject that has been mired in 1950’s psychology. It is interesting that a such a “disease” that requires such drastic mutilation, has not been researched using post-millennial tools and techniques. When someone is “diagnosed” as transgender where are the CAT scans, MRIs, blood work, DNA work and other diagnostic techniques that would search for biological causation? None.
Where are the psychological diagnostic instruments that would confirm or deny? None.
Where are the trials of antipsychotics, antianxiety agents and psychotherapy to test the contents of the patient’s beliefs? None.
Where is the research about diagnostic decisions trees that include biological paradigms? None.
Where are the men and women running to doctors and psychiatrists upset that they feel like they are of another gender? None
Instead we are told that the patient makes the diagnosis. Because they have felt like the opposite sex from their DNA since they can remember. Not accounting for the fact that in delusional processes, the past is incorporated in the delusions i.e.: when I treat the secretary who thinks she is the Queen of England, although her delusional onset may be recent (within a matter of months or days, at times) her delusions will include memories of being a child-queen, for acute delusional processes are often seamless.
Parents who arrive at schools and clinics with children dressed and raised as their DNA opposites are hailed as brave instead of studied as classic cases of Munchhausen by Proxy where parents seek attention by making up and believing the child is different, ill or diseased and providing symptoms and evidence to back the parent’s need.
McHugh is doing a service by raising these important issues in a world blinded by political correctness that engenders fear
“Soon VA hospitals will perform these surgeries on tax payer dimes...”
I know for a fact that this is already happening.
They no longer perform an addadictome?
Give it 20 years. It will no longer be a mental disorder and some Justice like Anthony Kennedy will demand the disorder be celebrated or else.
+1
“My point is that they’ll find some “expert” from some obscure hole in the wall and parade him as their counterbalance.”
And the evilstream media will laud him as the second coming of Isaac Newton. Isn’t there something that can be done about the constant tsunami of disinformation?
“You’re right, I probably should have said some Masshole or Ivy Lisper.”
No big deal.
I read somewhere that many Americans deduct 15 points from their estimates of a person’s IQ for a Southern accent. This is useful when employing the old “come on and underestimate me” strategy, but allowing people to overestimate their own intelligence has its drawbacks.
America would do better to listen to Southern conservatives and kick the nattering classes to the curb, but the Massholes and Ivy Lispers just *sound* smarter—to people who talk like they do, anyway.
I think there was a Simpsons episode about that.
Bingo.
“It now appears that our long-ago decision was a wise one.”
It amazes me to see an Island of sanity in a Sea of PC. How did this happen?
Look at the articles coming out spring 2015 on “the war on trans-kids”, where they are saying that if your son decides he’s your daughter, gosh, darn it, we need to put him in a dress, change his name, give hormones to inhibit puberty and ignore the 70-80% of kids who have that idea and abandon it for reality.
Source: Paul McHugh’s article in the Wall Street Journal, on why the first hospital to do transgender surgeries stopped
http://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120
Without wading through the article myself, do they address the question I raised about things they did 50 or 60 years ago?
The article doesn’t address the type of therapy they received prior to counseling to prep for sexual changes.
Here it comes—national transgender day or maybe it will be national glbt day. Prepare for it— store adds on tv, greeting cards etc.
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