state sponsored child abuse... nothing more
Posted on 12/11/2008 8:29:00 PM PST by history_48
by Gina L. Diorio, M.A.
The age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” has just taken on a whole new meaning. Forget the myriad options ranging from teacher and engineer to actor or electrician. Now, the biggest decision may be down to two choices: boy or girl.
Yes, seriously.
This week, the near-century-old Endocrine Society recommended that children suffering from gender identity disorders be given hormones to block puberty in order to give the kids time to decide which gender they prefer. Specifically, the BBC reports that the guidelines state: “We recommend that adolescents who fulfil [sic] eligibility and readiness criteria for gender reassignment initially undergo treatment to suppress pubertal development.”
Folks, you just can’t make this stuff up.
So, what will constitute an “eligibility and readiness” criterion? Will it be the first time Johnny picks up a doll? Or maybe when little Suzie holds her best friend’s hand and tells her she loves her?
The guidelines stem from research done at a clinic where 70 “teenagers” were treated – well, that is if you consider 11 years old a “teenager.” In reality, according to the BBC, while most of the patients were 12 and older, the youngest was 11.
Eleven-year-olds can’t pick out their own clothes let alone their gender!
If you believe Leiden University Medical Centre’s Henriette Delemarre-van de Waal, who helped treat children, the drug actually helps kids facing coping difficulties. “They self-harm, they develop an enormous aversion to their bodies, they isolate themselves and their school performance suffers,” she says.
Isolation … poor school performance … body image difficulties. Sounds like half the kids I know! While these things can, indeed, be traumatic for children, they are hardly unheard of. And there are ways to treat confused and potentially self-destructive attitudes and mindsets. Proper treatments involve bringing the child’s thinking in line with the truth of his or her gender identity – not trying to change that identity to fit the child’s confused mindset.
For crying out loud, I seem to recall that when my girlfriends and I played “house” as children, I ended up being the dad – thank God no endocrinologist grabbed me as Exhibit A of a gender-disoriented child!
Unfortunately, children in several countries today are not nearly as safe, and clinics in countries including Canada, Australia, German, and the United States have already started offering the drug. While Delemarre-van de Waal claims, “We don’t have any patient who has regretted their decision on the treatment,” the truth is, as ABC News reports, “there have been few trials exploring the long-term effects of delaying puberty in this way.”
In reality, then, long-term studies haven’t even been done to determine if these kids down the road will regret their decision – let alone to evaluate the lasting psychological and emotional impacts of the “treatment.”
The Endocrine Society’s Code of Ethics states, “The Society shall actively promote a climate that values and fosters ethical conduct in research and clinical practice.”
How any definition of “ethics” can possibly include stopping puberty to put kids on the road towards “gender reassignment” is beyond explanation – except in a world in which ethics is defined not by objective standards but by self-concocted philosophies.
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Gina L. Diorio, M.A. is a full-time freelance writer. Please visit her website at www.LibertyWritingSolutions.com.
Diorio being an ignorant twit aside, under no circumstances could it be considered responsible to hinder a child’s natural body development.
how about anyone who agrees with this proposal be given such a large dose of hormones that they won’t be able to breed?
One of the questions on the federal background check that must be filled out is on gender.
They give three options.
Male
Female
Both
Just for the record, they are disqualified if they list the third option.
The WHOLE BODY is either a male body with male genes, or else a female body with female genes.
Since every cell carries the male or female gene mix,
EVERY CELL in a male body is specifically a male cell and EVERY CELL in a female body is specifically a female cell.
A few hormones one way or the other is never going to change that.
“Gender identity problems” used to be considered a psychological disorder that was cured through going to a psychiatrist.
(IE, most gays were terrorized as children and did not develop psychologically into “adults”, but remain at the “terrified children” level. Once they “grow” psychologically into adults, they become “normal” and no longer in need of a protective male father figure.)
There are rare cases where one body can have a mixture of male and female chromosomes and thus be a genuine hermaphrodite. And there are likewise endocrinal and other physical maladies (such as AIS, which Jaime Lee Curtis allegedly has) that makes the person “intersexed”. This is separate and apart completely from so-called transgender issues. One is biological, the other is mental.
And no, it usually can't be "cured" by going to a psychologist. There is no "cure" for clinical gender dysphoria.
You should lean a little about biology before you caps lock about it.
state sponsored child abuse... nothing more
Hormonal and surgical mutilation are also not a cure for true psychological disorders. I also question how many people actually have this order, and how much is created as a fad and as society messing with vulnerable teens.
I was born a man, but I identify as a Fire Engine. And if you obstruct me from functioning in my role as a Fire Engine, you sir are worse than Hitler.
OK by me, but its ma’am Hitler to you. I was born a girl and am not a sir! ;-)
Seriously, I identify as a supermodel and billionaire. So bring on the contract and the money — I’m owed!
I believe I said that.
all I saw was your statement that genetic disorders cannot be cured by a psychologist.
I personally think the best treatment for true identity disorders (which are also very rare, most of what we see today is caused by pressure groups attacking vulnerable individuals)
is therapy to help the individual involved deal with the situation
No therapy will not cure it, but neither will anything else, and one needs to make the best of the situation.
You're correct about the rest of it. There are many groups with ulterior motives pressuring vulnerable people into things they shouldn't be doing. I've seen some real wrecks come out the other side. I certainly didn't trust the motivations of the psychologist who signed the diagnosis letter for my doctor. But, on the other hand, she knew I was using her for a last-ditch medical reason.
The only rational decision to make is to find out who He made us to be.
The rest is self-deification - a process that is intrinsic to our original, sinful natures.
Question: What is wrong with the world?
GK Chesterton’s answer: It is I.
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