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.
At the place where I work, a man and his two sons occasionally come in to shop. The man looks and acts like a lefty newcomer, unlike tough manly local men. The older boy seems quite normal and boyish. The younger boy also looks, acts, and sounds like a normal, energetic boy—except for his long flowing golden hair. This boy explained to me that he’s “going to be a girl” because his mother has enough males in the family. The other one chimed in, “Yeah, she’s sick of men.” Dad says nothing, just refers to the younger boy by a girl name.
I’ve quietly inquired, but this terrible abuse is no longer considered abuse, and authorities won’t step in.
OMG.
That is a great, well written article, thank you for posting it.
And which media outlet or public figure will be the first to canonize this person as a brave pioneer?
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The US government never pretended Blacks were not human.
What are you talking about? Slavery was legal in the United States from ratification of the Constitution to the passage of the 13th Amendment after the end of the Civil War.
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Since childhood I’ve identified as the King of Spain.But,curiously enough,on each of the dozens of occasions that I’ve knocked on the door of the Royal Palace in Madrid the police show up and take me away in handcuffs.
The institution of slavery was not instituted by the United States. It was practiced universally throughout human existance, and was codified by some of the states. The states were allowed to continue with slavery because otherwise the Constitution would never have been ratified. So the claim that the US “pretended Blacks were not human “is ridiculous.
Well, 3/5 human according to the wishes of northern states.
It has been stated as 42% of “transgenders” eventually commit suicide. I am not good at googling, though. A lot of folks on FR could have it up in a minute if they want it.
That ignorant 3/5 statement is the staple of leftists but is contrary to facts known to the average 8th grader. That was NOT a diminution of the inherent worth of blacks, although ignorant and or dishonest race baiters present it as such, but a tactic to prevent slave states from using their large slave population for electoral power. I suggest you try reading books.
I suspect I’ve read more upon the subject than you. That aside, declaring black people to only be 3/5 of a human being really was dehumanizing no matter what the purpose of doing so might have been. I’d like to see you explain this to a black person: “Oh, declaring you not fully human was a good thing you see, because it maintained our political power. You should be grateful.”
I identify as an attack helicopter!
Yep. 41% attempt suicide. The article I got it from of course tried to blame normal people.
Bull shit. They did no such thing. They only allowed the slave states to utilize 3/5 of a slave's electoral clout. The slave states refused to sign the Constitution without being allowed to continue slavery, so the northern states insisted on the 3/5 rule to prevent the slave states from counting their slaves when determining electoral votes and representatives.
Perhaps you should stop reading Noam Chomsky.
The U.S. government pretended that black people aren’t people and the result was slavery.
I suspect I’ve read more upon the subject than you. That aside, declaring black people to only be 3/5 of a human being really was dehumanizing no matter what the purpose of doing so might have been. I’d like to see you explain this to a black person: “Oh, declaring you not fully human was a good thing you see, because it maintained our political power. You should be grateful.”
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