Posted on 05/16/2023 7:59:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Medical journals are ranked by prestige, like universities and restaurants, based on criteria that might be more in the eye of the beholder than based on objective criteria. In the medical world, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are ranked number one and two, respectively, despite both having had to retract shoddy published COVID papers over “data integrity questions.”
JAMA, or the Journal of the American Medical Association, is number five on the “best medicine journals” list. It would be reasonable to expect such journals to be publishing cutting-edge medical research papers rather than nonsense better suited for supermarket tabloids.
JAMA, a few weeks ago, published a research letter stating the obvious about males and females. The title of the letter sounded innocuous: “Prostate cancer in transgender women in the Veterans Affairs Health System, 2000-2022.”
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It’s a surprise that transgender veterans were much of a thing 23 years ago. Then again, there was Corporal Max Klinger, the cross-dressing medic in the movie and TV series M*A*S*H.
The first sentence of the letter—“Transgender women retain their prostate even after gender-affirmation surgery and thus remain at risk of prostate cancer”—shows the study authors to be masters of the obvious. What did they expect? That men who declare themselves to be women, take estrogen, possibly receive breast implants, and undergo surgical castration are suddenly no longer biological males? As another military veteran character, Gomer Pyle, would say, “Shazam!”
The rationale for the study is that there are only 10 case reports of prostate cancer in transgender women. So what? These are biological males with prostates and are lumped into males with prostate cancer, the most common non-skin cancer in America, affecting 1 in 8 men.
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What are the basics here? These are concepts taught in middle school biology and, one hopes, within the grasp of one of the top medical journals.
We are all born either male, with an X and Y chromosome, or female, with two X chromosomes. Everything beyond that is window dressing, ignoring the reality of what is, not what one wants it to be.
Note the word “reality,” which the Cambridge Dictionary defines as, “The state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined to be.” This sums up the transgender movement. Human beings imagine themselves to be all sorts of things—smart, witty, attractive, successful, and often the opposite attributes—when reality may be far different.
Carried to the extreme, this type of delusional thinking becomes pathologic. Do we indulge anorexic individuals by agreeing with them that they are too overweight and letting them continue to starve to death? Or do we get them the necessary help to regain a sense of reality? If it’s just a “lifestyle choice,” why are there numerous eating disorder centers and programs?
Disconnection from reality is the basis of psychosis. The definition of “psychosis,” according to the National Institute of Mental Health, says the term “refers to a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality.”
If the brilliant mind of a Supreme Court justice cannot define what a woman is, how can we mere mortals know what a man is or what a woman is?
And what of the 50 plus gender identities discovered so far? How do they fit into the mix?
Men and women are different? This is an amazing discovery for biologists and medical personnel to learn about.
sarcasm.........
BTTT
What was their first clue?
I love the Cambridge Dictionary definition for reality. Somebody there ain’t woke. Did you get that definition online? My mom had a huge Oxford dictionary, and I constantly looked words up. Plus, lots of extra stuff in there.
Whoa! Fake women taking estrogen get the most aggressive prostate cancer. Is that info supplied to fake women, especially the ones getting lopitoffames, while keeping their prostates.
Why in heck would a man cut of his whizzler, and keep his prostate?
I want to read that.
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