Posted on 01/21/2018 6:06:23 PM PST by Kaslin
Back in December (just in time for the Christmas break), George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia held a school assembly with a special guest speaker. Washington Post columnist, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Ellis Nutt arrived to lecture the children on a number of subjects, particularly transgender issues. That’s not surprising since she’s still pushing her 2015 book, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.
Cathy Ruse at The Daily Signal has a long, well developed breakdown of the speech given at the assembly as well as the question and answer session which followed. (Be warned in advance that some of this is extremely disturbing and Nutt is far off base on some of her “science.”)
Nutt’s lecture hit all the usual notes. Your gender is “assigned at birth” by people who might get it wrong. Toddlers can be transgender. Moray eels change sex and female reef fish produce sperm when there are no males.
“Gender is a spectrum,” everyone must get “comfortable” with new gender language that is “changing every day.” Asking a biological boy to use the teachers’ rather than the girls’ restroom is “bullying.”
Did the school make plain to the students that they could decline to attend? That’s not clear. In her presentation, Nutt quipped: “Thank you for coming, although I know you’re probably required to be here.”
Nor is it clear whether parents were fully informed about the assembly in advance. At least one shocked George Mason teacher, who remains anonymous, says parents were not.
If you want to invest the time you can watch the full presentation via YouTube.
Becoming Nicole with Amy Ellis Nutt
We’ve done enough of these gender dysphoria stories by now, particularly when it involves the potential abuse of children, that we don’t need to go through it all again here. But Nutt adds a new layer to an already unbalanced cake when she begins veering off into various scientific fields. Nutt *covers* health and science for the Washington Post, but none of the bio blurbs I’ve found thus far indicate precisely what her educational background entails. One thing seems to be for sure, however… it probably wasn’t biology.
Handing out blatantly incorrect information like this to vulnerable children in a school setting where they’re ostensibly sent to learn and respect the authority figures instructing them isn’t just poor policy. It’s dangerous. Telling children that sex change is “perfectly normal” because moray eels and reef fish do it is a disingenuous, partisan mixture of science and fantasy. It’s true that a significant number of creatures are classified as sequential hermaphrodites (that’s the actual name for it, by the way), but they are found exclusively among fish, a few frogs and gastropods. In the absence of one gender in a given population, these creatures evolved to be able to switch from male to female (protandry) or from female to male (protogyny) in order to continue procreation. Some, like the clownfish, do it as a matter of course based on dominance in a breeding group.
But here’s the thing. This trait doesn’t exist in human beings. It doesn’t exist in the great apes or virtually any animal on the land. Calling that out as an example of something that’s “perfectly natural” for people is damaging, fake science. If Ms. Nutt wants to offer us an example of a single human being who demonstrates these tendencies in the real world I’ll be happy to take up the discussion anew.
I haven’t read Nutt’s book, Becoming Nicole, and only know it from reviews and reader descriptions, but it’s worse than the lecture. The family in question decided that a toddler was able to make a determination about being “born to the wrong gender” and went the full, medical route. The poor boy was given hormones to stop the natural onset of puberty and by the age of 17 he underwent irreversible surgery. This isn’t enlightenment or even “choice” in any form. It’s child abuse. The doctor they found to do this shouldn’t just lose their license. They need to be in jail and Nicole’s parents should be in the next cell. But people like Nutt are going around the country trying to normalize this behavior and they’re being allowed to do it in schools.
This is a big problem. If you’re an adult, do what you wish with your own body and live with the consequences as best you can. But when you begin abusing children in this fashion a line has been crossed and the authorities need to step in.
I was presuming the latter. I’m a bully.
not children with strong families and two parents at home to keep them away from these public school brain washing machines.
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I’d have to actually read the whole article to be sure.
I’m just not that motivated ...
They wouldn't even address me as Your Majesty.
Me either.
Teddy Roosevelt, who actually refused to shoot a captive bear for a photo-op. This famous incident resulted in the Teddy Bear as we know it today.
Very rarely, a baby is born with a problem - but otherwise, l see sex assignment or change operations as pure mutilations by overly- greedy medics on patients who need psychological help instead. It’s tragic, imho. Tragic.
It’s another atrocity that we can hope will pass.
[School assembly: Sex changes are “perfectly normal}
No they’re not !!!
My own theory (and it’s strictly speculation):
The sexual revolution put so many hormones into the drinking water that children get exposed to high levels of female hormones during their growth years.
Also, aspirin gets a bad rap and now doctors overprescribe ibuprofen to children and ibuprofen greatly reduces testosterone production, so children don’t get the testosterone nature intended.
Result: Boys either think they are gay or think that they are female trapped in a body of the wrong sex.
All of that can’t hold a candle to a spiritual problem.
Almost nobody knows what being a godly man or woman is like anymore.
Isn’t it interesting that it’s OK to change your sex back and forth, but NOT your sexual orientation. Once you go gay, you will be persecuted if you try to go back to straight.
Amy Nutt was outed by James O’Keefe a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkp32YMoHbQ
To catch a journalist....
Johns Hopkins no longer does choppadickoffames or addadicktomes for a reason. Medical ethics? Or do they see the writing on the wall? If the transgender remorse doesn’t get to them first how many of these “frozen vegetables” will end up with serious life threatening health problems from these procedures? Being pumped up with more testosterone and/or estrogen than their bodies were NATURALLY designed to handle. Not to mention the meds used have potentially dangerous carcinogenic properties. I can just see, within the next 10-15yrs from now “A very special Lifetime presentation “, “Remembering Jazz”. And I predict class actions filed against the hospitals Drs and shrinks by these lost souls and their families that’ll make the tobacco and asbestos suits look like child’s play. And the same shysters making the big bucks fighting tooth and nail for transgendered rights will be the same ones making even more $$$$ filing these suits. What an effing racket. Follow the money. ALWAYS follow the money.
Not to worry, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public. There’s none of this at YOUR fine local public school.
Have you tried speaking to them in Spanish?
Reason #2,459,875,000,000,543 to homeschool...
The saddest part is that these individuals are so strident and militant because they are desperately trying to convince themselves that they are normal. They can’t allow dissent because it threatens to collapse the unreal narrative in which they have cloaked themselves.
We cannot allow them to make use of our children to hide from reality. The damage to the children, in so doing, is completely unacceptable. People like Miss Nutt should not be allowed to approach children or adolescents in a school setting as a person of authority.
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