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 left would simply call this "trans-phobic hate speech" and would probably love to have the author arrested and executed.
It was about slavery, not race. Read the actual documents.
It was not at the behest of northern interests, it was a diminution of the power of the slave owners.
Slaves were black and forces opposing southern slaveholder political interests were northern, so pardon me for regarding your reply as a misleading quibble intended to yet again sugarcoat the situation.
Except the Catholic Church in the 16th Century..
Per Wiki:
Galileo’s championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system.[4] He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax.[4] The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was “foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture.”[4][5][6] Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point.[4] He was tried by the Inquisition, found “vehemently suspect of heresy”, and forced to recant.
And free blacks were counted 100%.
forces opposing southern slaveholder political interests were northern
Ah, so abolitionists were representing Northern interests against the slaveholders who were upholding the humanity of their slaves.
Got it.
Heliocentrism is not flat earth theory.
In the future you might want to consult a dictionary before posting.
Please allow me to clarify.
Heliocentrism is a distinct issue from the flat earth controversy. By the time of Galileo, the spherical nature of Earth had been an accepted fact for two millennia.
Hey, anyone want to guess what Galileo was convicted of?
Anybody?
Bueller?
There you go, emoting over intent again. The end result, however, of declaring back slaves to be 3/5 human for purposes of apportionment was dehumanizing. Next thing you know, you’re going to be claiming that the Union entered the war to free the slaves when that is objectively untrue as well.
“I would not believe my own words were they not based upon first hand experience and then scientific understanding to ground it in reality.”
Again, zero Scripture to back your strange teachings up. Using the Pharisees to forestall disagreement ain’t gonna cut it.
LOL... Neuroscience and anatomy & physiology are rather scant in the Bible...
Maybe you don’t believe in current medicine as it is not in the bible, but it still saves lives!
That was never the debate or the phrase “3/5 of a human.” There was never, ever any phrase or thinking in ANY state that blacks were not human. That’s why the Constitution referred not to slaves but to “unfree PERSONS.” Even in slave states like MD and MO, slaves could SUE for their freedom on grounds of illegal imprisonment. Only a person can sue.
The “3/5s” was a numerical compromise over population of unfree PERSONS: how do you count unfree PERSONS for representation and taxation? The compromise was to count three out of five of the unfree PERSONS for each category.
Thank you, LS.
RegulatorCountry: I don’t suppose you are going to insist you have “read more about the subject”.
My goodness, what sort of PERSONS are not human? What is 3/5 of a PERSON? A cow? No, it was how an enslaved black human being was counted for purposes of apportionment. This idiotic hairsplitting of yours is far more befitting a Clinton than a FReeper, Jeff. Dragging a minor political blogger into it was a pretty lame appeal to authority, too.
“PERSON” means what to you? Cow? Pig? Come on, dig out a thesaurus, stop parsing.
3/5 means three out of five. They counted three out of every five. They didn’t say black people were three fifths of a person. That is a modern leftist race baiting interpretation.
Go back to DU with your fellow America-haters.
Oh, so two out of five weren’t even PERSONS? You really have a problem with history as it actually was rather than the sanitized storybook version. As far as supposedly hating America that’s ridiculous, you’re completely out of rejoinders and are now just pounding the table.
I’m done with this back and forth. Please do not reply further.
As you wish.
transgenderism is a bunch of malarkey and child abuse in my book...parents are ruining their children for life!!
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