Posted on 05/03/2023 2:20:47 PM PDT by MtnClimber
--With apologies to Jonathan Swift--
Given the recent cutting edge advocacy for Gender Affirming Care and Surgery (GACS) for transgenders(sic), including minor children, why not expand this coveted GACS to the pet world, and then to the entire animal kingdom? Starting with pets, this therapy could be expanded to other owned animals (beef cattle, chicken flocks, Budweiser Clydesdales), and then to feral animals in the wild. The main benefit of expanding GACS is the massive new revenue stream to veterinarians, doctors, hospitals, and big pharma.
The number of Americans who dote over pets is enormous. Pet owners spare no expense ensuring their beloved pets are treated like royalty. The number of species that serve as pets is virtually unlimited, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, snakes, pot bellied pigs, and horses.
A plethora of random controlled studies could keep academia focused on this topic for decades. Medical and veterinary school deans would dole out vast sums of taxpayer money to support such studies, including but not limited to the following:
1. Measuring the impact of GACS on different pet species. Is GACS more effective in horses, dogs or fish?
2. Given the connection between mental illness and GACS, what is the effect that there are no participation trophies awarded to the losers in major animal competitions like the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness and the National Dog Show? Could those animals who consistently fail to succeed in such prestigious events benefit from post--loss GACS? How could such trauma be identified to predict the best candidates for GACS from all the losers? What are the true equity issues and unconscious biases in animal sports?
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Didn’t think a sarcasm tag was necessary...
it’s in the genes...
Hard to tell these days.
But at least you gave me the opening to express a big, personal bugaboo.
Up to now, there have been no cases of insanity among horses, rabbits, dogs, cats or elephants. Therefore it’s unlikely that any of them is unhappy with its sex and is going to look in the mirror and think it would be happier as the other sex.
Only humans are afflicted with this mental disorder.
Animals definitely go insane sometimes. Ever heard of rabies?
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