Posted on 08/02/2018 12:30:55 PM PDT by fwdude
July 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Indications that our culture is on its last legs, rationally speaking, are in abundance these days. Earlier this month, for example, we’ve been exposed to the delightful new term “theybies”—which, if you’re wondering, is what you call a baby when you decide to raise the child “gender-neutral” so that they can choose their own gender at around four years old. In Ireland, which has been gleefully offloading its Christian heritage since they repealed the right to life for pre-born children in May, the social protection minister lauded a report on “Ireland’s gender identity laws…that recommended extending the right to self-identity and non-binary people” by allowing them to change their gender “from birth.”
But in 2018, things can always get crazier. Consider this trending story from the BBC:
A reality television programme kicked off a debate about whether it's discriminatory or transphobic to refuse to date a transsexual person. The argument started on UK reality television show Celebrity Big Brother, where minor celebrities are locked into a studio made to look like a house, then filmed 24/7.As might be expected in such a situation, tensions run high and conversations can be fractious. One of the housemates is India Willoughby, a TV journalist who had an established career as a man before transitioning to become a woman.
Willoughby asked her housemates about their dating preferences, and the resulting conversation kicked off a social media storm.
"Would you go out with a transsexual woman?" she queried.
"I believe it's your choice... I would choose not to," replied the R'n'B singer Ginuwine. "That doesn't make me scared."
"You would go out with a woman?" Willoughby asked.
"Yes."
"But you wouldn't go out with a transsexual woman?"
"No."
The conversation rumbled on. When Willoughby suggested "Let's have a kiss," Ginuwine replied "no" and leaned away from her.
India was later seen telling another guest that "all this superficial stuff that you are a woman and all that sounds great and is the right thing to say. But it makes no difference if people don't believe it - that's the problem."
While some housemates defended Ginuwine's refusal to date a transsexual woman as a "preference", the issue divided the audience on Twitter.
Twitter promptly exploded with LGBT activists accusing this fellow of being “transphobic” for declining to be sexually interested in a biological-male-turned-female, along with a discussion about whether sexual preference outweighed the plight of transgender people who have a rough time getting a date.
Let that sink in for a moment. We are apparently at the point where someone is not only “transphobic” for finding the tenets of gender ideology scientifically and philosophically dubious, but can also find themselves guilty of this recently-invented sin for failing to display sexual interest in a transgender person. It is difficult to find anything to say that can emphasize how bizarre, perverse, and utterly surreal this is. I’d like to say that this is rock bottom, but unfortunately there does not seem to be a floor to this madness.
As I’ve written many times before in this space, we will pay dearly for accepting the ideology of gender fluidity. Some researchers are already cautiously sounding the alarm—a recent study reviewed in the Research Digest of the British Psychological Society warns that “early transition” can come with some severe risks:
Clinicians treating teenagers with gender dysphoria, the teens themselves, and their parents, are faced with a dilemma – puberty suppressing drugs and hormonal treatments will likely make it easier for the adolescent to gender transition in due course, and the earlier that process begins, the more effective it is likely to be. However, intervening earlier comes with a greater risk that the teen may later de-transition (that is, change their mind about wanting to transition to the other gender), leaving them with potentially irreversible bodily changes caused by the hormonal treatment.According to a systematic review published recently in the journal Pediatrics, adding to this clinical dilemma is a dearth of quality data on the physical and psychosocial effects of hormonal treatments on gender dysphoric teenagers and young adults. The limited evidence that is available provides only “qualified support” for these treatments, the review concludes, and while puberty suppressors have some benefits, they do not actually alleviate gender dysphoria.
The new findings – based on an exhaustive search of any and all relevant studies published between 1946 and 2017 – are published at a time when the medical and allied professions have shifted toward an increasingly “affirmative” approach toward gender dysphoria, one that at the extreme involves encouraging the process of transition at the very first signs of the condition… the new review reveals how this advice is based on extremely limited evidence. When it comes to teens and young adults aged under 25, we simply do not yet know much about the psychosocial effects of pubertal suppressors (including gonadotropin-releasing analogs which suppress the development of secondary sexual characteristics) and hormonal treatments (both gender-affirming hormones and cross-hormonal treatments, such as anti-androgens, which counter the effects of testosterone, and progestins, which suppress the menses).
The study goes on to warn that there is virtually no data on the trend of “detransitioning,” when young people attempt to reverse the physical and hormonal changes they have embarked on—and that much caution and more research are needed to determine the way forward. These findings, of course, are dismissed by the ideologues who find these scientific heresies unwelcome and inconvenient—if not “transphobic.” Jesse Singal of The Atlantic got crucified for merely raising these questions earlier this summer.
The single silver lining in all of this is that increasingly, many liberals are growing suspicious of the totalitarian instincts displayed by the trans movement. The fact that scientific findings—or even questions—can be promptly suppressed by a few rounds of highly public name-calling and social ostracization are causing concern and even suspicion among many who accepted same-sex “marriage” without qualms. And then, of course, there is the growing ridiculousness that defies parody—demands that straight men demonstrate their lack of transphobia by showing sexual interest in transgender people, for example.
It will be interesting to find out if there will be a straw that breaks the camel’s back in the transgender debate. Most people simply ignore these trends, and many ordinary people disregard these cultural discussions as ridiculous and unworthy of their time. In fact, trans activists are counting on many parents remaining ignorant while they insert their ideologies into public school curriculums across North America, and some parents have already discovered, to their horror, that the ideology they had ignored has resulted in their children requesting physical transition. Many of these parents are now pushing back, only to find themselves presented as a threat to the well-being of their own children.
Our culture will face a reckoning for indoctrinating children into these ideologies, and it will not be pretty.
Liberals have graduated from “anyone can have sex with whoever they want” to “if I want it, you can’t say no”.
I have a sister who is trans gendenderd….you know how to tell if something is mental illness. It becomes real important that other people indulge what ever belief that you have about your sexuality. Ff being trans this is just a birth physical birth defect awhy is it important that you get to sleep with someone who can’t get past the defect. Why is the control of someone else’s sexual practices that exclude you important. Why do you want to control that practice. why is it important that you are not up front about being trans when you go out on a date. why is it when ever I have encountered a person who had the trans disorder there were other sever mental disorders going on with the person.
because Of my interest in people that suffer from sexual body dysphoria. I have gotten to know Quite a few trans individual and when you dig nto them there was for most other dysfunction that impacted there life and behavior that had nothing to do with being trans and everything to do with mental illness or drug and alcohol abuse.
I love my sister but she is not a he physically. just because you wish something to be does not make it so and does not give her the right to force others to except her sexually.
The TERF or trans-exclusionary radical feminists range include women upset that biologically intact men who say they’re women are deliberately interfering in women’s retreats. (80% of trans are men, fewer than 1/4 have the organs removed, so the issue is overwhelmingly intact men saying I’m a woman and demanding access.)
Another faction are lesbians, women attracted to women. What is tragicomic about any of these “transgenders” is that they are delusional heterosexual men. They want to have the balls chopped off but are still sexually attracted to women. So they say they’re women and, viola, are now lesbians. And they demand to be recognized as lesbians and dated by lesbians.
Lesbians who refuse are getting bullied by liberals, you’re privileged because you’re cisgender, you’re privileged because there are more people like you.
The transgender nuts bash lesbians who date them but won’t have sex with them as having a cotton ceiling.
That lesbians are bad for not having sex with a crazy dude.
Hillary needs that outfit ASAP.
In my dating days I walked away from liberal, “ciswomyn” just because I have always made it a rule never to date anyone with more psychological issues than I have.
Transsexuals have more issues than National Geographic and Reader’s digest put together.
I have a sister who is trans gendenderd….you know how to tell if something is mental illness. It becomes real important that other people indulge what ever belief that they have about there sexuality. if being trans is just a birth physical birth defect why is it important that they get to sleep with someone who can’t get past the defect.
Why is the control of someone else’s sexual practices that exclude them important. Why do they want to control that practice. why is it that you think it is appropriate to lie about being trans when most go out on dates. why is it when ever I have encountered a person who has the trans disorder there are other sever mental disorders going on with the person.
Because Of my interest in people that suffer from sexual body dysphoria. I have gotten to know Quite a few trans individual and when you dig nto them there is for most part other dysfunction that impacted there life and behavior that had nothing to do with being trans and everything to do with mental illness or drug and alcohol abuse.
I love my sister but she is not a he physically. just because you wish something to be does not make it so and does not give her the right to force others to except her sexually.
WTF happened to “MY BODY MY CHOICE”????????????
HMMMMMMMMMMMM?????
Controlling other people is very important to leftists. Securing that control and ‘by any means necessary’ is just one of their tactics.
We need to see this for what it is and that is yet another assault on personal liberty by the wannabe dictators of the left.
Best part is that these tranny freaks have an extremely high suicide rate.
I will gladly donat a box of straight razors to that end.
The fact that a transwoman can’t get a date with a hetero male causes them to throw accusations out from their anger.
Dating is much more than a mechanical process to prove one’s openness, which many of the confused seem to make it out to be.
Not too long ago, in the last year I believe, an obese female was interviewed and said that males who rejected her based on her looks were discriminatory. I don’t think that got too much traction either. But the crazies are out there and getting crazier by the minute.
bkmk
The “transgender” fad will be self-exterminating.
The real problem is that no one wants to be called Mentally Ill. This is a mental disorder, like homosexuality. Sex is a choice. To what level of deviancy you take it too, determines the level of illness.
If everyone recalls, a certain fairly popular (because it was “ground breaking”) movie came out a couple of decades ago about this exact issue: The Crying Game. The main character, an IRA activist, had to “reconcile” his aversion to female pretenders with his initial attraction to one.
He redeemed himself at the end. One has to wonder if he would have been lauded had he said “no thanks.”
To quote Tone Loc in Funky Cold Medina... ain’t got no plans with a man.
These filthy sodomites make us all sick
I am a realist not a delutionist. We are either XX or XY.
These people all need a good blanket party...
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