Posted on 01/10/2019 2:16:37 PM PST by tjd1454
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has awarded the Trump administration a victory by staying a lower court decision which blocked the administration’s attempts to restrict the military service of transgender people who suffer from a condition known as gender dysphoria.
The court found that Trump’s new policy, which was based upon the findings of former Secretary of State Jim Mattis (see below), was in fact a more nuanced version of the original policy and should not have been summarily blocked by District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on its attempts to place restrictions upon transgenders serving in the military.
Hanging in the balance are the last vestiges of Christian culture, and the marginalization of those who hold to the words of Jesus: “At the beginning of creation God made them male and female.”
We see this already in Canada, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is requiring employers to attest that they respect transgender “rights” in order to receive summer job grants. In the United Kingdom, the Labour Party LGBT+ adviser has argued for the right of children as young as 8 years old to choose their gender and begin transitioning to embrace their “true selves.” And in America, Christian parents in Hamilton County, Ohio, have lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter after they refused to support her “transition” to male.
LGBTQ groups, celebrities and politicians have expressed outrage over the administration’s proposal to define gender as biological and fixed. This self-evident understanding, unquestioned for millennia, was overturned by former President Barack Obama, who enshrined subjective feeling – not the genitalia a person is born with – as determining one’s gender.
Thus, a man may decide that his “true gender” is female, and a woman may decide she is masculine. Further complicating this absurd notion, which would have left our forefathers aghast, are those who refuse to consider themselves either male or female, and inhabit the bizarre realm of “gender fluid” intersexuality.
The field of battle for the determination of the meaning of “gender” is none other than the several branches of the U.S. military, which of necessity have strict standards for those charged with the vital role of defending the nation.
In his memorandum to the President regarding transgenders in the military, former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis concluded: “Based on the work of the Panel and the Department’s best military judgement, the Department of Defense concludes that there are substantial risks associated with allowing the accession and retention of individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria and require, or have already undertaken, a course of treatment to change their gender.”
That this studied judgment angers those who reject biological gender defies comprehension, for it should come as no surprise that the military, which turns away diabetics, should decline those who may require major surgery and continuous hormonal replacement therapy. This is recognized by the service members themselves, only 39% of which approve of transgender troops.
Transgender Jamie Shupe, former Sergeant First Class has had second thoughts, and now feels he has “a duty to speak about the problems with transgender military service,” which “can seriously affect their duty performance. While they’re obsessing about their gender identity, they don’t have their head in the game.”
The military is all about maximum combat effectiveness. Soldiers do not serve in isolation, but work, eat, shower, and sleep together. No female unit should be required to sleep next to or bare themselves in front of an obvious male who insists that he is a female.
As one commentator notes: “We can’t even agree on which bathrooms trans people can use, but somehow we’re safer if we’re all in the shower together? No distraction there.”
Author Walt Heyer lived as a woman for nearly a decade and suffered medical surgeries and treatments before transitioning back to his true male gender. His book “Trans Life Survivors” tells the stories of 30 people gleaned from many hundreds of cases who “shared their lonely, surreal experiences falling down the trans rabbit hole, hoping to escape as he did.”
Sadly, our society will suffer dire consequences if it rejects the inborn nature of male and female, as designed by our Creator, which will result in a frightful descent into the “rabbit hole” of sexual anarchy.
Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D.
Preach it.
Are they male or female?
Why are you demanding an explanation of something from tjd1454 that even medical science has a hard time defining?
What is your point?
Are herms male or female? What are they? If there is only male and female, what are they?
My horse thinks he’s a bird.
Nearly every morning I tell him to get out of that tree.
God’s Design will survive.
Those who uphold God’s Design may not.
What’s your point?
My point is to learn something. I’m asking what they are. Male or female. FReepers know stuff. Since they share both traits, what are they classified as, or is there another gender.
Yes: arguing from the exception.
By that reasoning, an assembly-line engine defect that prevents one cylinder block from operating as an internal combustion engine means that internal combustion itself is a myth and that engine blocks exist on a nebulous continuum without any functional norm.
Yup, He did.
He created one man, Adam, and one woman, Eve, and from that one male and female couple the human race was brought forth. God did not create Adam and Eve as hermaphrodites.
What are hermaphrodites? God created them. Male, female?
Your question is nonsense.
By definition they are neither male nor female.
If you are going to classify them as male or female, they they are, by definition, not hermaphrodites.
Sure.....
Here. Read this.
Hermaphroditehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
Your patience is commendable.
Indeed Jim. Females have two XX chromosomes. Males have an X and a Y chromosome. Nothing on this Earth or in mans science can ever change that.
Ok, fine.
My understanding is:
They do not change actual sex, which is genetic; they change sexual function, which is an adaptation.
This does not happen naturally in humans. It happens unnaturally through exogenous hormone treatment. The rare instances in utero without external engineering are due to some unusual circumstance (e.g., excessive testosterone exposure at a key developmental stage); it manifestly is not just another human sexual result from insemination, producing some fluidly multifarious gamut of so-called genders. The exceptions are exceptions, not normal variations.
Some lower species have both organs partially developed; some change due to population dynamics through endogenous hormone secretion - or being exposed to the many xeno-estrogens humans are producing (resulting in quasi-females from actual males).
This phenomenon is used as propaganda to ostensibly prove the gender spectrum dogma.
It does not. It proves adaptation (versus evolution). It does not apply to humans, any more than reptilian oviparous (external egg laying) reproduction does.
Certain urban male frogs are turning “female” as a result of human artificial estrogenic fertilizers and pesticides.
These same artificial chemicals are indeed affecting human males: Sperm counts have been falling steadily since the introduction of such products into the environment after WWII. Think Soy [phyto-estrogenic] Boy on steroids - synthetic estrogenic steroids.
If they were classified as male or female, they wouldn’t be hermaphrodites.
Think through what you are asking cause your question is not logical.
Not female or male. That is illogical. male, female, and other?
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