Posted on 01/12/2017 12:03:23 PM PST by rickmichaels
Has the transgender movement gone too far?
It began, commendably, as activism for the rights of that very small number of people who experience persisting discomfort with their biological gender. But it has evolved into an ideological movement to normalize the practice of changing genders — and in the process is crossing ethical lines with a particularly vulnerable subset of young people struggling with issues of gender identity.
A recent article by Elise Ehrhard in Crisis Magazine, a Catholic periodical, addresses the aggressive approach by adult trans activists in recruiting adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome or other types of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to their cause.
Ehrhard has Asperger’s. As is typical among Asperger’s girls in their adolescence, she preferred the company of boys, with whom she identified cerebrally, a tendency encouraged by the bullying she experienced from other girls.
Ehrhard is not transgender — she doesn’t see herself as a male — but, citing a social media campaign featuring the hashtag #AutisticTransPride, she can see why Asperger’s and other ASD adolescents nowadays come to believe they are. This disturbs her. Adolescents struggling to deal with their quirky cerebral wiring do not need to be told they are “a girl trapped in a boy’s body” or vice versa, she says. Nevertheless, Ehrhard notes, many parents are buying into this completely unscientific hypothesis.
As a child psychiatrist with experience in both ASD and gender discomfort, I share Ehrhard’s concern and can substantiate her claim. In her account I see a familiar story of a youth with ASD who feels socially isolated, and confused about sexual feelings as she moves into adolescence.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
They’re vulnerable. The left will stop at nothing to advance its agenda.
Child abuse.
For a scholarly survey of females who stopped the process of transitioning, many of whom were found to be autistic, Asperger’s, ADD or OCD, click the link below and go to the link in the article that says, “Analysis of the results can be found here”
And I don't agree with that in the least either.
Character is more important.
Good response.
Yes, character is what matters, and morality.
Placemark.
LOL!
I don’t classify myself as such, but even as someone diagnosed as such, when I was a kid, the last thing you would ever want to try doing with me was call me a girl instead of a boy.
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