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."
On the bright side, this makes it easy to identify the nutty ones.
Not silly.
True. Diabolical.
This is the danger of being brainwashed by the cult. You have to go deeper and deeper to be a good person.
I’d have to look it up, but I read a peer-reviewed paper which stated that “in agreement with previous studies,” there was a co-morbidity of other mental illnesses in 62% of cases of gender dysphoria being studied.
Another peer-reviewed paper said in their study, 50% co-morbidity accompanying gender dysphoria.
Great graphic!
[Diabolical]
Absolutely. He makes some gaffes here and there.
He is committed to his real father’s cause (John 8:44).
A normal person would be ashamed or embarrassed at the things he often champions. He is the living embodiment of Isaiah 5:20.
He convinces fools it’s “good” and “normal”. And to make it worse, some churches sing his praises in one form or another.
He is a false prophet; a son of destruction. He sows destruction and lies and poison. And the fools cheer him on.
Some have said that when they encountered him in person it was a spiritual significance (or something like that).
I’m sure it was actually spiritual; I’m sure they came into contact with something rather supernatural, but not from the side of God. He casually and purposely omitted “God” from some things. Under his reign, the Democrats booed God at their convention and they booed Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. These things also fly in the face of God.
All of us have rebelled. But this guy made it a national cause. He made the gay Stonewall Inn a national monument. It’s beyond unbelievable. Baalam knew how to take down Israel. This is pretty much the same thing.
I had the link somewhere. Lost it.
So I had to go find it again.
His girlfriend was another man who transitioned to woman after seeing Bruce do it.
“...commit suicide, and live with regret every day for the rest of their lives.”
In that order?
Maybe.
Depends on where they go.
But seriously, I realized after I posted it that it didn’t make sense in that order.
I thought you might have been referring to the afterlife. It just struck me funny being phrased that way.
This ends with normal people going to the ovens. Guaranteed. If we sit and watch, it’s a matter time.>>
Agreed, Why do you think they want to repeal the 2nd amendment and confiscate all of our firearms and ammunition ?
No worries, my daughter went off to college at the age of 17, got married on her 18 birthday, didn’t tell anyone, both ended up in prison she was 8 months pregnant. It can happen to any kid. True story and there is more... Just sayin....
I’m interested in the rest of the story. If you want to tell it.
One of the important historical incidents of the last century was the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Goldwater, of course, opposed it. This was NOT because Goldwater was a racist. He most certainly was not -- and he was from Arizona, back when Hispanics accounted for three percent of the U.S. population, so when you said "minority," Goldwater thought you were talking about the Navajo. Goldwater fully supported eliminating de jure segregation, i.e. discrimination by government. His objection was that the Civil Rights Act overreached by targeting "places of public accommodation." The objective, of course, was to get rid of segregated restrooms, lunch counters and drinking fountains in the Jim Crow South. Goldwater was concerned, however, that the definition of "places of public accommodation" would prove to be infinitely expandable. The public sphere would inexorably expand, and rights of private association would steadily erode. That is, of course, precisely what has happened.
Since abolishing Jim Crow was a self-evidently moral objective, the battering ram was unstoppable regarding matters of race. And most people cheered. The problem was that open-ended precedents were being established. The feminists jumped onto the bandwagon, hitching their agenda to the now-established principle that there can be no "discrimination" in "places of public accommodation." Since women weren't being massively discriminated against in the 1960's -- we were sending them to college in ever-increasing numbers and encouraging them to make careers -- a lot of this was symbolic and/or incidental. All-male social organizations took a battering, even as all-female social organizations were applauded as acts of affirmation and empowerment. A lot of us started muttering about the double standard, but there it was.
What has happened now is that every agitated minority group, including the various sexually confused groups, has a ready-made, virtually unstoppable body of law and precedent on their side the moment they assert that they are the victims of "discrimination." Social shunning and ordinary prudent business judgment in personnel matters have been criminalized. This drives both the grievance culture and the freak show circus of people with mental illnesses demanding affirmation. Claim discrimination, and you've won.
Much of this could have been avoided had Congress listened to Goldwater in 1964 and more carefully drafted the relevant sections of the Civil Rights Act. By now, however, judges have constitutionalized the comedy of errors. What has to be recovered is a robust, constitutionally and legally defensible understanding of the wall between the public and private sector and the rights of free association. People with various mental maladies, including the current sexually non-conforming crowd, could do what they wanted in their own private lives and among their own groups, but they would lose their standing to force others to play their games. How to do that, I don't know.
Yep. Saul Alinsky dedicated his book Rules for Radicals to Satan. Over the Hill and Obama are Alinsky fanatics.
Me too. Prophecy before our very eyes. I always wondered as a kid how the US would ever be fooled into all this stuff that was prophecised. Just pray we stay strong to the end. We’re not alone, but the devil wants us to feel that way.
Probably because they think they could do a better job of it than *real* men. (I know, I don't understand it either.)
Sooooo, women are more easily deceived?
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