Posted on 07/22/2023 2:33:46 PM PDT by simpson96
When I was a boy there were occasionally lurid stories in the news that fascinated us about Japanese soldiers found on deserted Pacific islands, still fighting World War II decades after the war ended.
These were sad, embittered and deranged individuals who had cut themselves off from the world and prosecuted their war alone. They lived furtively, rather like mole rats in caves, like some gollum from a Tolkien story, half starving, hysterical, half mad.
And then came adolescence and girls and competitive sport into my life with the faint promise of learning to drive a powerful V-8.
So the half-mad warriors of Imperial Japan, however nobel they may have been to us at Kolmar School, were left far behind and forgotten.
Until the other day, as I listened to Dan Proft’s “The Morning Answer” radio program on AM 560 and finished some minor editing for a column for johnkassnews.com.
It was a column by Dr. Greg Ganske, a former Iowa congressman and retired plastic surgeon who is raising important questions with his latest piece: “Is it Science or Child Abuse Part II.”
Of course it is child abuse.
America clings to the delusion it is not child abuse even as we commit mass cultural suicide, as we engage in castration of young minor boys and other irreversible tortures inflicted on young pubescent girls via puberty blockers–on the whims of terribly delusional and tortured parents.
Monstrously evil Nazi doctor Josef Mengele would be proud of such doctors, medical associations, journalists and politicians who are carrying the fight for torturing our young people, and shielding themselves from moral outrage by invoking modern scientific man’s arguments in pursuit of pure science.
What does this do? We already know it is guaranteed to stoke a special kind of inevitable anger that will lead to mass shootings and rage, as we commit cultural suicide on those who survive.
Europe is tossing such gruesome notions of “gender assignment surgery and “treatment” where they belong, in the garbage. Recently, Norway has joined other politically progressive European nations–including Finland, the U.K. and Sweden in imposing limits on such treatments for minors.
The Olympics have moved to banning transgender athletes from competition pending testosterone testing, but here in the U.S. we hold fast to the idiotic notions of the left lest we be accused of the sin of “transphobia.”
And the high priests of culture tell us to point us to “gender affirming care” and transgender biological males competing with females, and we grab at it like drowning victims thrown overboard in a storm.
We grab whatever floats knowing that we’re dead men if we don’t. And all the while a few of us sigh and lament the passing of the fools.
But why?
Why are those who stand up in support of women in women’s sports are targeted for obliteration? It isn’t just a difference of opinion, it is a power trip of angry wasps determined to sting you and other objectors to death.
You’ve seen them egged on in a frenzy against “Harry Potter” novelist J.K. Rowling, against women’s tennis champion Martina Navratalova and so on.
And champion female swimmer Riley Gaines was attacked by enraged transgender activists over Gaines’ legitimate opposition to Lia Thomas, a biological male who calls herself a trans female although she was once a mediocre at best swimmer against men, but since calling herself a woman she scored victory after victory and preened in glory.
What glory? It was false. It was phony. There was no true glory. But Thomas preened and basked in it anyway. As did all those who preened with her.
Thomas denied other biological women their true victories. And chattering fools of journalism and politics heaped praise upon Thomas, and scorned upon those like Riley Gaines and others who stood up for women.
The Democrats have already made fools of themselves applauding Thomas’ “courage” while hissing at any of her naysayers. They can’t tell you what a woman is. Hint: It’s not Lia Thomas in a pool.
But why?
Helen Joyce, the brave Irish journalist, editor of The Economist and also advocate with the group “Sex Matters” that supports women in athletic competition, not men pretending to be women.
Joyce was interviewed by Peter Boghossian about the differences between men and women.
And here we’re reminded of the Japanese soldier lost on his Pacific Island decades after the war. The parents who participated in the monstrous behavior have nowhere to go.
Helen Joyce is an Irish journalist, bestselling author, and director of advocacy at Sex Matters.
She spoke to Peter Boghossian about the differences between men and women. This clip discusses how the parents of transgender children will not be able to face what they have done. I hope you listen to the whole thing.
What I like and admire about Dan Proft is the intellectual heft he brings to the important issues of the day.
Context is important. Rigor is important. And reason.
Insipid foolishness is not important, thank God.
In a Chicago broadcast sea of hacks, simpletons and drooling sentimental barbarians, Proft stands alone. We are lucky to have him.
From the Helen Joyce interview:
JOYCE: “Something you may not have thought of is that there are a lot of people who can’t move on from this. And that’s the people who have transitioned their own children. So those people are going to be like the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific islands and didn’t know the war was over. They’ve got to fight forever. This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we’ll ever have experienced.
“A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity, and for their own self-respect. So they’ll still be fighting, and each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups.
“Like, I’ve lost count of the number of times that somebody has said to me of a specific organization that has been turned upside down on this, “Oh, the deputy director has a trans child.” Or, oh, the journalist on that paper who does special investigations has a trans child. Or whatever. The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can’t talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can’t, because what you’re saying is: “You as a parent have done a truly, like, a human rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that can not be fixed.
“There are specific individuals who are actively against women’s rights here and it is not known why they are, but I happen to know through the back channels that it is because they’ve transed their child.
“So those people will do anything for the entire rest of their lives to destroy me and people like me because people like me are standing in reproach to them. I don’t want to be, I’m not talking directly to them, and I don’t spend my time bitching to them.
“But the fact is that just simply by saying we will never accept natural males in women’s spaces, well it is their son that we’re talking about. And they’ve told their son that he can get himself sterilized and destroy his own basic sexual function and women will accept him as a woman. And if we don’t, there’s no way back for them and that child.
“They’ve sold their child a bill of goods that they can’t deliver on.
“And I’m the one that has to be bullied to try to force me to deliver on it.
“So those people are going to be the people who will keep this bloody movement going, I’m sorry to say, because they’ve everything to lose, and it is a fight to the death as far as they are concerned.”
Joyce argues that because of what they’ve done to their children, there is no way back for them. As GK Chesterton said many years ago, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they become capable of believing in anything.”
And those who participate in these tortures are desperate to rationalize their behavior. They are perfectly modern. And in their pride, they fashion themselves as their own gods. They strike out at all who dare say otherwise and continue striking because they must. All they leave behind is chaos and pain.
They can live in sorrow until their last day.
These parents had ONE JOB
Their kids will hate them for what they allowed to happen. They will never be grandparents
But the worst is what is coming later, the Bible warned them in no uncertain terms
Andrew Klavan (there is no “e” in “Klavan”) played a portion of this interview yesterday. I hadn’t thought of it before. When we overthrow the fraud of transgenderism, even the simpletons who just knew their boy was a girl because he reached for a pink blanket when he was two, will know the atrocity they have wrought on their own children. They deserve every bit of suffering that lies in their future
This applies to women (and men) who abort a baby without understanding exactly what they are doing.
When they realize what they’ve done it’s too late.
This is one reason why we have many women with mental illness in our country.
I promise this is relevant. It’s about how people think.
Everyone thinks because we’re alive today we’re somehow better than the people of yesterday. The easiest place to see this is how people think about say, Neanderthals or people who lived two hundred years ago. I guarantee we wouldn’t live a week if we swapped places with a Neanderthal. Probably two weeks if we swapped places with an AMerican colonist.
Peeple today look at those who lived twenty years ago as heteronormative, patriarchists, white male racist transphobes. That’s because people today are smarter, better educated, sensitive, and, above all, not toxic. The things that the younger generation think today are okay and normal are wildly out of tune with what people of their age thought twenty years ago. And the way people of twenty years ago thought about things like child abuse, probably hadn’t changed much for a very long time. Cutting your boy’s testicles off would be child abuse until about five years ago, when it suddenly became just fine. Nothing to see here. A doctor will do it for you. And, he’ll create a wound that would heal if it weren’t filled with a plug every night...for the rest of the former boy’s life. And, yet, the young parents of today think they’re doing the right thing? Have they all gone mad?!
Everybody needs to take a step back and think in broader terms. My suggestion is that we immediately close down all the colleges that are not teaching STEM. They are the root cause of this madness. Take the pink haired gender studies “professors” out and shoot them. No more student loans to study stuff as dangerous to humanity as this bullarky.
Interesting article.
“A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity, and for their own self-respect. So they’ll still be fighting, and each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups.”
Same can be applied to the covid BS. This is what makes the left so dangerous. They’re never going to budge.
These parents are guilty of Munchausen by Proxy. Damn sick Liberal Virtue Signaling Perverts. They deserve to be in prison for life.
Women in women’s sports is a minor issue.
Calling a man a woman is for all the marbles.
Prison is too good for them. Stoning on the other hand…
Ah yes I was reading right along, it was all making sense, until Leah Thomas was a she. I think the author is afraid to use the wrong pronouns in a piece that needs to have the wrong pronouns. If you don’t want to use the wrong pronouns use the nouns instead. I don’t have a problem with Leah Thomas being called Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas is just doing what Leah Thomas wants to do and Leah Thomas doesn’t care about anyone else but Leah Thomas.
Any “conservative “ journalist who uses the left’s fake pronouns is a HUGE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
This makes sense, explaining why parents of trans kids can’t move on. But why can’t the American Medical Association move on?
Good point
For a similar reason. The doctors who do this think they are doing something beneficial for these kids. They will never be convinced that it is torture and abuse.
Thank you.
If I had to guess, I’d say $$$$$$$.
Because of all the money
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My theory -
The US is far worse affected by this because this, along with many other symbolic matters, is caught up in the bitter US social war. The US is far more intensely split between social factions than anywhere I have seen. It’s that “cold civil war”.
These differences are seized upon as symbols, consider them like battle flags. Their defense, or advance, are seen as markers of victory or defeat for the tribe or faction. The content of these symbols actually doesn’t matter much, no matter how much they are debated.
It’s all about us against them.
There is some of this in Europe, the most probably in the UK, but much less so. Reason and empiricism still works.
For some of these parents, “having a transgender child” is a badge of honor. THAT’S why they can’t move on.
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