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.
NOPE
A twisted freak
No. Just no.
You can’t rearrange your DNA once the die is cast.
I’m starting to wonder if we need to find that alternate parallel universe all these mentally ill freaks are coming from so we can usher them back into their 62 gender world because in our world there are only 2 genders. Even a hermaphrodite has to pick one or the other at some point.
It is not now nor will it ever be normal for a person to attempt to change genders. Since they can’t actually change genders; all they can really do is play act at being the other gender.
I don’t know whether to dread or pray for science to one day literally change the gender of a person. It would mean a complete chromosomal overhaul of their root being. If these people are that confused about what gender they are, maybe in their cases it wouldn’t be such a bad thing but for now, it’s just play acting.
Um, no. Just no.
Don’t Let the Doctor Do This to Your Newborn
by Christin Scarlett MilloyImagine you are in recovery from labor, lying in bed, holding your infant. In your arms you cradle a stunningly beautiful, perfect little being. Completely innocent and totally vulnerable, your baby is entirely dependent on you to make all the choices that will define their life for many years to come. They are wholly unaware (at least, for now) that you would do anything and everything in your power to protect them from harm and keep them safe. You are calm, at peace.
Suddenly, the doctor comes in. He looks at you sternly, gloved hands reaching for your baby insistently. “It’s time for your child’s treatment,” he explains from beneath a white breathing mask, shattering your calm. Clutching your baby protectively, you eye the doctor with suspicion...
It's a strange hypothetical scenario to imagine. Pressure to accept a medical treatment, no tangible proof of its necessity, its only benefits conferred by the fact that everyone else already has it, and coming at a terrible expense to those 1 or 2 percent who have a bad reaction. It seems unlikely that doctors, hospitals, parents, or society in general would tolerate a standard practice like this.
Except they already do. The imaginary treatment I described above is real. Obstetricians, doctors, and midwives commit this procedure on infants every single day, in every single country. In reality, this treatment is performed almost universally without even asking for the parents' consent, making this practice all the more insidious. It's called infant gender assignment...
Infant gender assignment is a wilful decision, and as a maturing society we need to judge whether it might be a wrong action. Why must we force this on kids at birth?...What could be the harm in letting a child wait to declare for themself who they are...?
Circa 1966 as a straight heterosexual male I would have been delighted to claim myself as female (provided I did not necessitate surgery or estrogen given). If such was the case at 17 years of age I could have showered with the delicious Rowena of which each and every male in my high school lusted for.
Unfortunately this did not occur. Also, to the best of my knowledge not one of us ever had but a scent of Rowena. She was smoking hot and to our loss extremely intelligent.
Circa 1966 as a straight heterosexual male I would have been delighted to claim myself as female (provided I did not necessitate surgery or estrogen given). If such was the case at 17 years of age I could have showered with the delicious Rowena of which each and every male in my high school lusted for.
Unfortunately this did not occur. Also, to the best of my knowledge not one of us ever had but a scent of Rowena. She was smoking hot and to our loss extremely intelligent.
Mutilating your genitals doesn’t change your sex.
Back in December (just in time for the Christmas break), Retriever High School in Golden, Colorado held a school assembly with a special guest speaker. Washington Post columnist, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Princess Nutty arrived to lecture the children on a number of subjects, particularly transpecies issues. That’s not surprising since she’s still pushing her 2015 book, Becoming Princess: The Ruff Transformation of an American Family.
Spot 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 Nutty is far off base on some of her “science.”)
Nutty’s lecture hit all the usual notes. Your species is “assigned at birth” by people who might get it wrong. Toddlers can be transgender or trans-species. Moray eels change sex and because we don’t track every fish in the sea we have no idea how common species transitions may be
“Species is a spectrum,” everyone must get “comfortable” with new species language that is “changing every day.” This is every bit as scientific as Global Warming. Asking a biological child who identifies otherwise to use a human restroom rather than a tree, fire hydrant, or litter box is “bullying.”
Not by everyone...
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
It is only a matter of degree to accept trans-dragon, some reconstructive surgery, a bit of prosthesis, and then an ignition and fuel source.
Amen!
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Public school child abuse.
Especially by having fathered 6 children. (you know who I am talking about.)
Like parents of public school kids never abuse them, eh?
Those people aren’t homeschoolers. They are abusers who game the system like so many others.
They were homeschooling the kids, but not for the reason most parents home school their kids. I am sure you have heard the report that the 29 year old adult, which was the oldest one only weight 80 pounds.
Speaking of being wrong, this is. Your gender is determined by God at the moment of conception.
The whole idea of "sex change" is ridiculous. Your sex/gender is determined by your chromosomes, XX for female and XY for male. Your chromosomes, and therefore your gender, cannot be changed.
Your appearance can be changed via plastic surgery. Your sex hormones can be suppressed by medicine. Your genitals can be mutilated and changed via surgery. But your gender, determined by your chromosomes as chosen by God, cannot. PERIOD!
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