Posted on 06/21/2014 1:50:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
While some might find the story laughable, I personally find it tragic: Don Ennis, an experienced TV news producer was fired from his job, allegedly for performance-related issues, after reappearing as Dawn Stacey Ennis, marking his third gender change since last year.
With little sympathy, one website reported, “A television producer who has changed his gender three times has now more time on his hands to know who she or he is.”
Worse still, the New York Daily News, apparently forgetting that Ennis had lived almost all of his life as a male, announced, “Dawn Ennis was canned weeks after her latest transition from her male persona, Don Ennis.”
What? It was not Don Ennis who was the “male persona”; it was Dawn Ennis who was the “female persona.” And Don is a he, not a she. In fact, before his wife left him when he became Dawn the first time around, they had been married for 17 years and had three kids.
It would appear that Ennis is quite troubled and in need of serious help, but even to suggest such a thing is to be branded transphobic and hateful.
To all who pull the “transphobia” card, I urge you to reconsider your rhetoric. Sometimes compassion causes us to ask the hard questions rather than simply to affirm someone in their gender confusion.
Let’s not forget that in May, 2013, when Don suddenly appeared at work in a black dress as Dawn, he claimed to have “an unusual hormone imbalance.”
And he wrote: “Please understand this is not a game of dress-up, or make-believe, it is my affirmation of who I now am and what I must do to be happy, in response to a soul-crushing secret that my wife and I have been dealing with for more than seven years, mostly in secret.”
Three months later, when he reverted back to Don, “He said that he had amnesia, claiming his wife dressed him in a wig and created a fake ID card bearing the name ‘Dawn.’
“‘I am now totally, completely, unabashedly male in my mind, despite my physical attributes,’ he said in an email to colleagues.
“Ennis said that while his memories of the past 14 years had returned, his female identity did not.”
And now he has reverted to Dawn.
Is it transphobic to say that this man needs help?
There was also the tragic story of sports columnist Mike Penner, who became Christine Daniels, only to revert back to Mike Penner, before taking his own life.
You can be assured that any coworker who did not welcome him as Christine would have been lectured or even disciplined, and yet questioning his new identity, with love and sensitivity, might have been the most compassionate thing to do.
Yet to do so would be to swim against the tide of political correctness. And it would be a dangerous swim at that. Just yesterday (June 18th), “the White House announced Obama will sign an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Back in 2012, Brad (aka Ria) Cooper, was set to be Britain’s youngest sex-change patient at the tender age of 18. An October 28, 2012 headline in the Mirror read: “‘I was a boy.. then a girl.. now I want to be a boy again’: Agony of teen who is Britain's youngest sex-swap patient.”
The article, which still insisted on identifying Brad as Ria, noted that, “Her decision, which comes after two suicide attempts, calls into question whether she was too young to be allowed to swap sexes in the first place.”
Yet it appears that we have learned nothing from stories like this, stories which I cite not to demean or mock those who identify as transgender, nor to suggest that these experiences are the norm. Instead I cite them to urge us to seriously reconsider the direction in which we are heading as a society.
In recent days, in Canada, a 12-year old girl has received a new birth certificate identifying her as a boy, based entirely on her self-perceptions, while here in the States, millions have watched a viral video in which a family shares how they have embraced their daughter’s identity as a boy, despite the child being just 6 years old.
When Dr. Keith Ablow expressed a dissenting view regarding this little one, he was roundly condemned for his comments and labelled “a serial misinformer on LGBT issues.” Is there really no possibility that this girl actually is a girl and that she could be helped to embrace her female identity with proper treatment? Is this really a transphobic position?
Earlier this week, Dr. Paul McHugh, formerly chair of the Johns Hopkins psychiatric department and a longtime opponent of sex-change surgery, penned an Op Ed piece for the Wall Street Journal, arguing that “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered” by not treating transgender “confusions ... as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
He cited a 2011 study from Sweden that followed the lives of 324 “sex-reassigned” persons over a 30-year period (from 1973-2003), noting that “beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population.”
This confirmed a similar study McHugh had commissioned decades earlier at Johns Hopkins, and for opposing sex-change surgery, he is vilified to this day.
Is it possible that something other than transphobia is driving him?
Walt Heyer has lived through this himself, undergoing years of hormone treatments and then sex-change surgery to become a woman, only to realize over a period of years that he was, in fact, a man and that there were other issues he needed to address in his life.
To help others, he has launched the SexChangeRegret.com website, featuring articles like, “The insanity of hormone blockers for kids,” and “1,500 Sex Changers Request Surgical Reversals” (this was in one center in Belgrade alone), and “Regret Is Real—and Transgenders Are Going Back.”
And he too is vilified for his courageous and compassionate stance.
Is it too much to ask that we stop and reconsider our ways before embracing such radical societal change?
Is it only transphobia and ignorance that drives such a request?
“transphobic”
This is the first time I have run across that neologism.
I reject it in all ways.
Let’s see, now...depression or rage?
Rage.
To everyone who uses this term without irony: get the hell off my planet. You are no longer welcome here.
Perhaps a new use for snap-on parts.
Snap on - snap off. What ever you’re in the mode for today.
mode = mood
Grrrr
Indeed. A real life Mr. Garrison (South Park) except real life isn't a cartoon so no one can give him his junk back. These surgeons are exploiting the mentally ill, that sick genital mutilation surgery should not be allowed.
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Transgender is the ‘T’ in LGBT.
You will no longer keep us trapped in the chains of a body with sex that we don't feel like being today, its like the slaves that were chained in the South in the 1800s,
We need to change the constitution to make a sex change a right, the founding fathers were obviously bigots not recognizing this, making Americans live with the sex they were born in,
As Rand Paul said, we must ‘evolve’ EVOLVE cavemen!
I wonder if race could be changed what that would do to elections.
Much like Kyle Broflovski, I feel I am a 6'9 Black NBA star trapped in a scrawny Caucasian body. Obamacare should fund my hoop dreams.
I know one. She was a teen and wanted to be a boy. After dressing like a male and insisting on a male name, for a couple years, she started to beg her Beverly Hills parents to have her breasts removed. These parents are smart and kind people. They were great parents. They did the family shrink thing, they went over it a lot. Some might not do what they did, but some might: they ok’ed the operation. She became he, and took hormones and grew a wispy beard, and had the double mastectomy. She looked like a thin pretty teen boy.
Guess what? “He” wasn’t happy still. Found friends among the fringes of society. Stayed home a lot. Still needed all the shrinks and antidepressants. Didn’t feel complete and ready to go out, get a job or go to college, and make something of him/herself. Parents were distraught and felt they had been led in the wrong direction by the LBGT community. A few years of this and their “boy” never seeming happy or content or productive. Then “he” wanted to go back to being a girl. I think she is about 21 now and is having implants put into her chest. First they have to stretch out her new flat chest to get ready for the implants.
This whole thing is messed up. I really do feel for the young people whose gender identity is making them unhappy. I do believe that something in our environment is causing these sexual differences. Maybe plastics, maybe some other kind of neurotoxin. I don’t think we know best how to treat these people. Right now they are being treated like there is nothing wrong. Neither should they be treated as freaks. We need to see this as a brain / sex dysfunction in children and pubescents and HELP THEM but I don’t know the answer.
I saw a Maryland Dem governors primary commercial from a candidate saying that she wants to legalize pot here in Maryland.
Now think about this:
35 tax increases, speed and red light cams, more gun regulations,.....
But in return we get legalized (and highly taxed) gambling, same with pot and abortion, and same sex marriage, expanded all week voting in minority areas and a flood of immigrants, legal and illegal.
Keep the masses docile in serfdom or what?
I am a millionaire trapped into a non-millionaire's body. It is very hurtful to me when people won't let me into exclusive clubs or serve me Kobe Beef or provide me with a limo equipped with a swimming pool, simply because of physical income. I didn't choose not to be born a millionaire. It simply the way I am.
We need to stop discrimination and hate against unfortunate trans-income people like myself. If people want to respect the feelings of the trans-income community, they need to look beyond the surface and accept my true identity. No doubt progressives can help aide in this cause by always referring to me as "the millionaire" in publications and treating me as such whenever I go out in public. Eventually I hope to be able to have limousine liberals like Michael Moore provide income-reassignment treatments so I no longer have to live in shame knowing I can't be the person I've always seen myself as on the inside.
Part of being an NBA star is being rich so I know exactly how you feel. Everyday that I go without a hot tub full of floozies, I die a little inside.
“Keep the masses docile in serfdom or what?”
More like watch your standard of living crash below that of the illegals that are being given super-rights with your tax dollars.
I’m in MA, I know the playbook...
Do I have to say it? Yeah, it’s been a few days: EINSATZGRUPPEN!
All credit to Billyboy though for founding the male lesbian rights association, of which I am also a member.
It seems no matter what “form” they take - they can’t accept themselves as they are
PSA:
This Tuesday, June 24, on the Spike channel from 9-10:30 PM is a new documentary, “I Am Steve McQueen”. Directly followed by “Bullitt” from 10:30-1:30 AM.
This is interesting:
Tony Gwynn had one three-strikeout game in his 2,440-game career. Gwynn, who died June 16, struck out three times on April 14, 1986, against Bob Welch of the Dodgers, who died June 9.
It could be that your friend’s brother is trying to distance himself from his past actions by becoming someone else. And, since he sees his gender as a fundamental part of himself, becoming another person is as simple (to his pathological way of thinking) as having his genitals mutilated.
I see the same thing happening with traitor Bradley Manning. He was profoundly unhappy prior to joining the Army; he did not find happiness in the Army, and rather than seeking help, he committed treason. And now he is unhappy in prison, and seeking to distance himself from who he is. I wouldn’t be surprised if sometime in the future, after he has been allowed to indulge in “reassignment”, he finds a way to suicide. (Don’t get me wrong—I have no sympathy for him—I like to understand the factors that make people behave the way they do, that’s all.)
No one who humors the mentally ill by going along with their delusions is doing them any favors. Yes, it takes time to treat the illness, and success is very tenuous in these cases. But treatment is far better than using their condition for profit.
Affluenznot?
Affluence-Polar?
I am sure we can come up with something better than transincome...
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