Posted on 01/14/2019 6:50:17 PM PST by rickmichaels
As society continues to evolve – and some critics might argue 'devolve' – into a more progressive understanding of gender and sexuality, the stakes couldn't be higher. To the dismay of many parents, this societal tug-of-war over transgenderism is playing out on today's college campuses like never before – and is hitting young women particularly hard.
One mother, Katherine Cave, recently called attention to the issue, telling The College Fix, "I am writing to you on behalf of parents who have lost their kids at college to the transgender craze."
"Many liberal colleges have significant percentages of students suddenly identifying as transgender," Cave writes. "And as you may know, all it takes is a simple visit to an informed consent clinic where girls get testosterone injections to help them look like males."
One such case involved a 19-year-old girl named Pam who, according to her mother, "fits the typical description of a young woman affected by this craze – very bright, extreme social justice warrior, highly creative, socially awkward/ADHD/Asperger spectrum, OCD/obsessive interests."
"While she was not a super girly-girl, she had never any masculine interests (not one) and has all the stereotypical feminine interests and traits (cooking, knitting, babysitting little kids, etc)," Pam's mother explained. "She went from being a feminist/pro women's rights to hating white males to now wanting to become one and wanting to chemically and surgically mutilate her body."
In yet another example of 'transmania,' The Wall Street Journal's Abigail Shrier shares the story of an attorney whose daughter left for college a "girly-girl" only to return having undergone a shocking transformation.
"The young woman went off to college—which began, as it often does these days, with an invitation to state her name, sexual orientation and 'pronouns.' When her anxiety flared during her first semester, she and several of her friends decided their angst had a fashionable cause: 'gender dysphoria. "Within a year, the lawyer's daughter had begun a course of testosterone," Shrier recounts.
Shrier argues that the "real drug" that reeled in the young woman "was the promise of a new identity," noting that a "shaved head, boys' clothes and a new name formed the baptismal waters of a female-to-male rebirth."
Brown University public health researcher Lisa Littman labels this disturbing new phenomenon as "rapid onset gender dysphoria." Unlike gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder which takes hold in early childhood, Shirer describes ROGD as a "social contagion" that sets in during adolescence "afflicting teens who'd never exhibited any confusion about their sex."
The Fix reports that this "contagion" has blindsided an increasing number of mothers "who are shocked when their formerly feminine daughters suddenly come from home college with mustaches, acne, different demeanors — even their breasts removed."
Critics lay the blame on liberal ideology being peddled at college campuses across the country. According to The Wall Street Journal, 86 schools offer health plans that cover everything from cross-sex hormones to surgery.
Meanwhile, this new movement is also drawing some unlikely critics, ones who warn the implications of gender fluid ideology could carry far-reaching societal implications.
"I've always been fascinated, attracted to the subject of androgyny... but the more I explored it I realized that historically the movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture as a civilization is starting to unravel," explained left-wing feminist Camille Paglia.
"And the people who live in such late phases of culture – whether it's the Hellenistic era, whether it's the Roman Empire – feel they're very sophisticated, very cosmopolitan. But from the perspective of historical distance, you can see it's a culture that no longer believes in itself."
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama was doing the work of the Devil.
I know that sounds silly. But he has left several examples.
Look at the chaos inside America now.
This false prophet of Satan has led many fools down the path to bizarre behavior.
Now we see the effects of a generation of liberal sex education in our leftist NEA controlled schools.
Ones sexual orientation is a matter opf ‘choice” rather than biology.
Give a collective of confused individuals a “choice” when they have not processed puberty in a natural way, and the current leftist resexualization of America is what you get.
Really , these poor kids have become twisted and sick, without the ability to participate in or create civil society.
Their job is to destroy Americas traditional institutions of culture , politics and economy. They are the expendable cannon fodder of the left. And they may die by the thousands in the debacle that might come.
Gillette wants men to lose “masculinity” and women want to grow mustaches, hair and scratch their balls....
It’s a mental illness hysteria involving lots of impressionable young people who will regret this later and possibly commit suicide because they can’t undo this mutilation and be whole again. They are scarred for life by their own choice.
Anyone who suffers from gender dysphoria should be on a suicide watch. It’s not about if they will deep dive; it’s about when. Very sad for sure.
The Unraveling of a Culture.
.
Yeah, I see it.
I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime.
Madness and lies. It’s the new norm for some of these people.
Absolutely!
Bet the left is okay with this.
Ditto That!
"And the people who live in such late phases of culture – whether it's the Hellenistic era, whether it's the Roman Empire – feel they're very sophisticated, very cosmopolitan. But from the perspective of historical distance, you can see it's a culture that no longer believes in itself."
Spot on.
My folks swallowed Gold Fish,
I got a Tattoo.
My Son and Daughter,,,???
I’m moving to a Desert Island.
Great meme!
I know the Democrats laugh. Their disaster made a complete mockery of God on not only a national stage, but an international stage. And they STILL don’t see any problem with him about ANYTHING.
I say the Strong Delusion may have already started, in some small way. Of course THE Strong Delusion is associated with the rise of Antichrist (I still believe that man arises in Europe).
Regardless, throw anything at an Obama supporter: Facts, logic, reason, economic numbers, unemployment numbers, crimes by illegals, and finally, worst of all, Scripture. None of it works. They are immune to any of it and have bought his lies.
Girls mature earlier we are told.
Who are we to second guess women and the choices they make with their bodies?
Honestly I know they are nuts, who in america today would give up the most privileged position to go down to third class adult male status?
And they still do not see the irony.
If they hate men so much, WHY on God's green earth, do they want to become one?
[”And the people who live in such late phases of culture – whether it’s the Hellenistic era, whether it’s the Roman Empire – feel they’re very sophisticated, very cosmopolitan”]
Witness the Huffington Post liberals at Yahoo. They are very proud of what they have “accomplished” and “are accomplishing”. And, BTW, they’re smarter than you or I. Much smarter, much more modern-thinking, much more sophisticated and more hip to social trends.
BTW, for several of them, that whole “God” and “Jesus” thing is just a myth and the Bible is an ancient relic of mythology.
Like sheep to the slaughter.
Liberals feel morally superior to us because we still believe in right and wrong, good and evil. We have become the bad people because we don’t accept their perversions as normal, therefore in a liberal’s eyes we are quaint, old fashioned and not nice. They accept everything and are therefore morally superior and more enlightened than the rest of us- so they think.
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