“What about Caster’s own mind - if she believes within herself that she’s female, then she is.”
And if I “believe within myself” that I am a salamander, then I am?
WereSalamander
So true.
I’ve heard the story of David before. I can’t tell you how much it disgusts me. That he was injured during a pointless medical procedure but more so what his parents did to him. I can’t believe his father said “ok doc cut my sons b@llz off”. Thank goodness they didn’t go ahead with the full scale Doctor Frankenstein treatment that they tragically gave to many unfortunate boys born with malformed peni.
If it’s any scant consolation, most of the modern “scientific” dogma (egged on by gay advocates) goes the other way: sexual identity is supposedly fixed.
This is a “north/south” question when the answer is “west”
What amazes me is that Dr. Money, actually had enough business to make ends meet...Pardon the pun...
Maybe this crap wasn’t a large part of his pratice, but sometimes you just have to wonder how rediculous shams, and the people who believe this type of therapy actually work and continue to function these days...
Wait... It was “charred?”. WTH?
Since when is fire involved? (I haven’t seen the procedure personally)
This is a horrible story, lost in the details is the fact that David’s whole nightmare that resulted ultimately in suicide began with a botched operation that is commonly practiced but totally unnecessary and unjustified. Circumcision is a barbaric practice that would be eliminated in a sane world. Unfortunately the evidence grows daily that we are descending farther into the rabbit hole of insanity by the minute.
Any mohel worth his payess knows it's a shanda to do it with a blowtorch.
On the plus side, there are going to be some really great social satires made about our times by the film industry of the 22nd century, after all this horse sh1t passes out of fashion. Think Monty Python meets Flash Gordon, as written and directed by Rush Limbaugh. Wish I could be there to see them.
The Past Is Not Quite Past [Victor Davis Hanson on Japan in 1941, Russia now, and more]
Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More Dreams is becoming required reading for schoolkids!
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Several articles lately about children in the UK one day coming to school in dresses and calling themselves girls names.
This is not much different than what this article said is a dead idea. As a matter idea this whole “transgender” thing follows those sorts of theories. Its aimed at the kids.
What a profound essay. This is a keeper.
They’re doing all these test on Caster Semenya, when they should have started by having him/her drop his/her drawers to see if he/she had junk. If not, then one could test further to identify the specific syndrome she labored under. But, having a visual inspection would be mean, invasive, insensitive and all that other hoopla (and all these tests aren’t???).
Since I’m still being bitched at for bad aim when peeing, I’m assuming I’m still male.
Liberalism is irrational.
This stuff just boggles the mind. If truly sound science were being applied to these conditions, scientists would be trying to isolate the root causes of these disorders so that they could find cures, or proper courses of therapy in lieu of actual cures.
Which implies that one has free reign to manipulate and control the world. In other words, Marxism, be it economic, cultural, or environmental. Small minds acting outside of natural laws in this way perpetrate great atrocities, be it to children or whole societies.