Posted on 12/13/2017 6:10:58 AM PST by Heartlander
“Congratulations, it’s a boy!” Or, “Congratulations, it’s a girl!”
As a pediatrician for nearly 20 years, that’s how many of my patient relationships began. Our bodies declare our sex.
Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary. You either have a normal Y chromosome, and develop into a male, or you don’t, and you will develop into a female. There are at least 6,500 genetic differences between men and women. Hormones and surgery cannot change this.
An identity is not biological, it is psychological. It has to do with thinking and feeling. Thoughts and feelings are not biologically hardwired. Our thinking and feeling may be factually right or factually wrong.
If I walk into my doctor’s office today and say, “Hi, I’m Margaret Thatcher,” my physician will say I am delusional and give me an anti-psychotic. Yet, if instead, I walked in and said, “I’m a man,” he would say, “Congratulations, you’re transgender.”
If I were to say, “Doc, I am suicidal because I’m an amputee trapped in a normal body, please cut off my leg,” I will be diagnosed with body identity integrity disorder. But if I walk into that doctor’s office and say, “I am a man, sign me up for a double mastectomy,” my physician will. See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.
No one is born transgender. If gender identity were hardwired in the brain before birth, identical twins would have the same gender identity 100 percent of the time. But they don’t.
I had one patient we’ll call Andy. Between the ages of 3 and 5, he increasingly played with girls and “girl toys” and said he was a girl. I referred the parents and Andy to a therapist. Sometimes mental illness of a parent or abuse of the child are factors, but more commonly, the child has misperceived family dynamics and internalized a false belief.
In the middle of one session, Andy put down the toy truck, held onto a Barbie, and said, “Mommy and Daddy, you don’t love me when I’m a boy.” When Andy was 3, his sister with special needs was born, and required significantly more of his parents’ attention. Andy misperceived this as “Mommy and Daddy love girls. If I want them to love me, I have to be a girl.” With family therapy Andy got better.
Today, Andy’s parents would be told, “This is who Andy really is. You must ensure that everyone treats him as a girl, or else he will commit suicide.”
As Andy approaches puberty, the experts would put him on puberty blockers so he can continue to impersonate a girl.
It doesn’t matter that we’ve never tested puberty blockers in biologically normal children. It doesn’t matter that when blockers are used to treat prostate cancer in men, and gynecological problems in women, they cause problems with memory. We don’t need testing. We need to arrest his physical development now, or he will kill himself.
But this is not true. Instead, when supported in their biological sex through natural puberty, the vast majority of gender-confused children get better. Yet, we chemically castrate gender-confused children with puberty blockers. Then we permanently sterilize many of them by adding cross-sex hormones, which also put them at risk for heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancers, and even the very emotional problems that the gender experts claim to be treating.
P.S. If a girl who insists she is male has been on testosterone daily for one year, she is cleared to get a bilateral mastectomy at age 16. Mind you, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently came out with a report that urges pediatricians to caution teenagers about getting tattoos because they are essentially permanent and can cause scarring. But this same AAP is 110 percent in support of 16-year-old girls getting a double mastectomy, even without parental consent, so long as the girl insists that she is a man, and has been taking testosterone daily for one year.
To indoctrinate all children from preschool forward with the lie that they could be trapped in the wrong body disrupts the very foundation of a child’s reality testing. If they can’t trust the reality of their physical bodies, who or what can they trust? Transgender ideology in schools is psychological abuse that often leads to chemical castration, sterilization, and surgical mutilation.
The entire mess of transgenderism is fraught with dangers.
It is quite possible that there is NO viable treatment for some individuals and that they will be better off taking their chances with transition.
It’s also quite possible that some children are led into this by well-meaning parents and can be rescued by therapy.
What must NOT be allowed to happen is to let a child decide before they are old enough to understand the ramifications.
In some instances a delay of puberty might be appropriate...this is fixable later if need be. It can result in a girl that is a bit too tall or a boy that is a bit too short and slight... but that is better than surgery or the risk from going through an unwanted puberty.
I feel that many M2F trans people actually have a psychological condition known as autogynephilia. It is a mental condition but IMO is often untreatable.
People with these problem deserve our prayers, not our scorn. Prayer is IMO the only hope some of these unfortunates have.
I post this over and over but it’s still true that horrible things happen when governments pretend things to be true that aren’t true. Some examples:
The local government in Salem, MA. pretended that witchcraft was real and some people were executed because of it.
The U.S. government pretended that black people aren’t people and the result was slavery.
The German government pretended that Jewish people aren’t people and the result was the Holocaust.
Many governments pretend that pre-born people aren’t people and the result is multi-million abortions.
And now we have governments pretending that homosexuality is normal and the problems are just beginning.
Tangent point: who’ll be the first male to play on the Women’s Olympic team?
A good thumbnail sketch why America is being severely damaged by rampant, delusional narcissism instead of real virtue.
Child abuse, pure & simple.
Is it 42%, or 42% greater than average people? 42% is really high. Like no instinct for self - preservation high.
If I was this doctor and this little boy walked in and said he was a girl and his parents were insistent that thier child was/is actually a girk in a boys body then I would give him a local and slice it off and throw it in the garbage and say “Next.
Why isn’t this a joke thread like most science articles posted to FR?
So you’re a girl, young fellow? Here’s a tampon for you.
Explains a lot.
Sometimes all we have to do is pay attention.
PFL
You are either XX or XY. God determined that and there's no changing it. PERIOD!
“THIS is not psychic, it is science just as x rays are to bones.”
That which must be PROVED, cannot be used as proof. As Paul told Timothy:
“...avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Tim. 6:20). KJV says “science”, others say “knowledge”.
Can I prove the above? NO. It’s based on FAITH, backed up by Scripture. The surrealities you post are based on faith, but NOT on Scripture. Please don’t drag GOD into your bizarre imaginations.
His version of the human sexuality story is so much simpler than yours:
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
That’s Jesus speaking in Matthew 19. The context is divorce and God’s original intention. Divorce makes no sense except in a fallen world. Same for sexual perversions. The LORD made man upright, but he went in search of many schemes.
I would include your embellishments in these schemes. It’s not hard to push your stuff on vulnerable people who are desperate for some kind of fix to their brokenness. They need Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross. Period. Your occult teaching—and that is EXACTLY what it is—is just another blind alley they’ll go down.
Sounds like Science Fiction.
When a very young mother, I read Bowlby, and he shaped my approach to parenting my babies. If I think the title was “Child Care and the Growth of Love”.
That was over 50 years ago! He was excellent. I wish all new mothers could read this book!
Your other posts on this thread are really interesting. What is your profession?
I truly don’t understand why the AMA hasn’t stepped up & said these surgeries are wrong. The Hippocratic oath is ‘first do no harm’. This is obvious catering to a mental illness instead of trying to cure the mental illness. Anyone willingly doing these surgeries should lose their medical license. The medical community should be ashamed of themselves.
Destroy the West. Destroy capitalism. Bring on the commies and Sharia.
“Human consciousness is in a field that at a minimum is 15 feet from the physical body in all directions.”
Um...okay. Your theories are mixed up with some rather bizarre, occult-based ideas. You keep replying to yourself as well, to keep your conversation going. Are you about to plug a book or something?
Excellent article.
I went out and punched his mother and father.
Bump .
The best article I have read on this subject.
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