Posted on 12/15/2020 10:42:22 PM PST by xomething
December 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The debate about transgender persons has been transformed in the U.K. by a ruling of the High Court that children of 13 or less are very unlikely to be capable to giving consent to “puberty-blocker” drugs, and consent from older children is also fraught with difficulty. As the homosexual newspaper Pink News put it:
Puberty blockers are widely deemed safe, reversible and medically necessary, lawyers for the Tavistock [medical clinic] maintained. Lawyers for [plaintiffs] Bell and Mrs A argued that trans teens should have to go before a court before being able to access the medication.
Since the ruling, the consensus that puberty-blockers are “safe, reversible, and medically necessary” has vanished like snow on the desert. The U.K.’s National Health Service, and also the BBC, has systematically removed links to the radical transgender-affirming charity Mermaids, which represents the view condemned by the High Court. The two entities have also edited out the suggestion that the extremely powerful drugs used to prevent puberty taking place can be reversed; as a matter of fact, the scant research done on the subject suggests the opposite. Even more significantly, they have removed emotive references to suicide. It is the link to suicide that is the basis for the claim that interventions with the aim of gender transitioning can be “medically necessary.”
More fundamentally, though, the NHS has been removing descriptions of “gender” in terms of crude stereotypes and claims that people can change sex. I have discussed the question of stereotypes and the attempt to destroy the concept of biological sex on LifeSite here.
In a parallel move, the left-wing weekly newspaper The Observer, the sister title to The Guardian whose staff forced the resignation of “gender critical” feminist Suzanne Moore only a few weeks ago, published an editorial welcoming the Bell judgement, saying: “It will ensure that children will now receive the protection to which they are legally entitled.” Protection from what? From doctors and their allies in the worlds of education and social work, who have been pushing some of the most vulnerable people in society down a pathway to treatment which takes years of their lives away from normal emotional and physical development and leads to irreversible infertility.
It is interesting to see in the trans debate a phenomenon I have noted in relation to under-age consent: that the courts are more concerned about outcomes, while social workers, doctors, and teachers can be dazzled by the idea that children should be allowed to consent, whatever this may lead to, despite the fact that consent is not really possible in the circumstances.
The Bell judgment is not going to put a stop to people “transitioning,” but it, and the reaction to it, is a hugely significant development. It is too soon to say that it represents the turning of the tide, although there are other indications that we may have passed “peak trans,” such as the growing reaction against letting males compete in women’s sports (this has now reached the organizers of the Olympics). What we can see right away, in the meantime, is the fragility of the trans-affirming consensus Pink News referred to.
It has been obvious for some time that there are many people in the medical profession, as well as elsewhere, who are deeply worried about the issue, but they have been shouted down and hounded from their jobs. What was always obvious was that many of the people going along with the mob attacking dissent against transgender ideology, do not actually believe the ideology themselves. In many cases, they are terrified of the consequences of opposing; in other cases, they may be motivated with hatred against whoever the victim happens to be this time, or by a more general desire to prove their virtue. This desire on the part of so many people to go along with the majority has created a situation in a tiny number of aggressive true believers find that they can lead a lynch mob in almost any direction. It is a scary situation, reminiscent of the French Revolution, and also very unstable. As the list of victims grows ever longer, and the ideological contortions necessary to prove oneself part on the virtuous elite ever more demanding, ordinary people swept along by this ideology have started to look for a way out. This is what happens in a “purity spiral”: these things have a limited lifespan. After a while, given half a chance, a lot of people long to turn around and attack their erstwhile leaders.
This is what has happened here. Perhaps there’ll be a couple more reversals before we are finished, but the dynamic has changed. There is something to be frightened of in supporting extreme trans ideology now, as well as in opposing it.
I have a tranny “half” brother.
He demands for me to call him Eliza. I told him if I call him that I would be lying to him.
He then responded that he will not commit to a relationship where I won’t support him as a women.
Fuque him. I won’t support a person who doesn’t respect my belief in God.
As stated in the article...
“It is interesting to see in the trans debate a phenomenon I have noted in relation to under-age consent:.... that the courts are more concerned about outcomes, while social workers, doctors, and teachers can be dazzled by the idea that children should be allowed to consent, whatever this may lead to, despite the fact that consent is not really possible in the circumstances.”
Regardless of how tis is viewed constraints are being taken again and again regarding the safety all around of children......This perverted and debased generation of freaks are going after our children full throttle.
I also know a couple who refuse to call their son the female name he wants to be called. They will not do so because ‘it will validate’ what his sick mind is telling him and they will not do that.
Good on you!...continue to refuse.
The Committee of Public Sexual Degradation Safety
He goes on Facebook with his skirts and dresses. Wearing make up. I haven’t friended him, just other family told me. I only took Facebook for my martial arts classes.
Don’t ever give in. I know it hurts badly, but they are asking you to lie to them. I won’t lie to my “half” “brother”.
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
In the tidal destruction, the moral melee
I read a book where the girl’s grandfather refused to use her boy name, etc. Everyone else in the family did, her friends, etc.
Five or six years later she realized her error, and returned to acting/looking as a girl the best she could. She said after realizing her error, she could only trust her grandfather. He was the only one that told her the truth.
Tavistock was involved in MK Ultra and other mind control type projects during WWII and later including mass pychosis of the public. Their “research” and pushing of the trans-cult is a powerful example of their success. The number of girls wanting to “become” boys has exploded in the last 10 years. It used to be perhaps 1 or 2 boys a month at a clinic wanting to change, and 0 to 1 girls wanting to change.
Now it is 6 to 7 boys, and 100+ girls a month or something crazy.
He is not, nor will he ever be a woman. He is just a man without a penis.
Sexual deviant perverts in government and high places want this
“1984” was required high school reading. It hit me like a brick. Every time someone talked about “trans” or any of the other artificial LGBTQ constructs I had thoughts about the book’s nebulous antagonists changing the language on the fly.
Mom was mortified, but I said leave her alone. It was a stage she was going through. She followed Dad around like a little shadow, wanted a tool belt and wanted to help me fix and build things. I enjoyed it while it lasted and told her it was handy to have a daughter who helped me with guy things. And it was, since I had only girls.
A little over a year later, some elderly man commented on what a cute little guy I had. She took off her baseball cap, stomped on it and declared "I'm a girl!" I knew the day would come, I just didn't think it would be that soon.
Today, she is a super mama of two precious grandsons. Since she can act like a lady and think like a man, she makes more than my son-in-law.
“Since she can act like a lady and think like a man, she makes more than my son-in-law.”
Good for her! Girls should not be pharmaceutically assaulted because they go through a tom boy phase.
In the hospital I work in we had one of these perverts. This little faggot wore more make up than a super model, sashayed his butt all over in a way that would make Cardi B jealous and generally made himself insufferable.
Yet in the interest(or tyranny of) ‘’diversity’’ and
‘’inclusion’’ this one little piss ant had an entire hospital full of people scared to death of ‘’offending’’ him/her/it. Once he/she/it became aware of the power he/she/it had over everyone he/she /it became a veritable little tyrant.
Eventually this little freak went too far and mouthed off to a charge nurse (charge nurses are big shots). When you work in a hospital mouthing off to nurses is the fastest way to be shown the door. When this nurse complained to our department head the freak mouthed off to her.
Well, that was the end of he/she/ it.
A few months later the freak was found stabbed to death inside a cruddy old van in a supermarket parking lot in a seedy side of town.
He/she/it was probably out trolling for sex and things went south.
Transgenderism is a mental illness.
My daughter has been sucked into the trans-cult. Amazingly, she is still VERY conservative!?
We are still looking forward to the day when she will say “I’m a girl!”
Interesting your comment on acting like a girl but thinking like a man.
I was with my daughter for quite a well a month ago in her new town. She’s been at her job for about a year and a half and moved from part-time work in the shipping zone to being a supervisor in the on-line ordering department.
We were walking through the place and she was talking to everyone by name.
“Yeah - I make a point of knowing everyone by name, although there are 3 people that were just hired that I need to get to. But I have to work with all the departments, so I need to know everyone.”
We are looking forward to the day when she sees that she is a woman that is equal to any man.
You are lucky she grew up when she did. Nowadays she would have been railroaded down the path of puberty blockers and irreversible surgery by the trans cultists who can only grow through conversion.
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