Posted on 04/01/2022 5:56:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Biden’s HHS has gone all-in on radical transgender ideology, encouraging early body-changing medical interventions as “gender-affirming” care. From the HHS Office of Population Affairs publication:
Gender-affirming care is a supportive form of healthcare. It consists of an array of services that may include medical, surgical, mental health, and non-medical services for transgender and nonbinary people.
For transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender-affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being as it allows the child or adolescent to focus on social transitions and can increase their confidence while navigating the healthcare system.
And it can ruin their lives, too.
What kind of interventions constitute “early gender-affirming care”?
Social Affirmation: Adopting gender-affirming hairstyles, clothing, name, gender pronouns, and restrooms and other facilities When: At any age or stage. Reversible
Puberty Blockers: Using certain types of hormones to pause pubertal development. When: During puberty. Reversible.
Hormone Therapy: Testosterone hormones for those who were assigned female at birth Estrogen hormones for those who were assigned male at birth. When: Early adolescence onward. Partially reversible
Gender-Affirming Surgeries: “Top” surgery – to create male-typicalchest shape or enhance breasts “Bottom” surgery – surgery on genitalsor reproductive organs Facial feminization or other procedures. When: Typically used in adulthood or case-by-case in adolescence. Not reversible.
This is awful. Children and adolescents with gender dysphoria certainly need proper care and support. But puberty blocking is not benign and can lead to adverse medical issues such as reduced bone density — which is why it is no longer recommended in the U.K. and Finland, for example.
Mutilating surgeries on genitals and breasts of minors should be off the table altogether. They are irreversible, result in sterilization when of the genitals, and remove healthy organs.
At the very least the government should acknowledge that these drastic interventions are controversial, remain experimental — puberty blockers are “off label” uses of medicines approved to treat pathologies in adolescence — and indeed, sometimes leave patients permanently harmed. This is particularly true in cases where they “detransition” — that is, regain acceptance that they are, indeed, the sex they were born.
Expect the usual suspects to accuse those opposing this drastic recommendation as being motivated by hate as a means of stifling reasoned discourse. Indeed, President Unity has already called state laws to protect transgender minors from such interventions “hateful.”
The reality is exactly the opposite. Love requires that we defend the procreational futures of children and their bodily integrity, particularly in a time of raging moral panic when emotions rule the day. Adults can do what they please. But minors need protection, sometimes, even from themselves.
https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RandAyn-The-Comprachicos.pdf
The comprachicos. As described by Victor Hugo.
“Where God had put a straight glance, this art put a squint. Where God had put harmony, they put deformity. Where God had put perfection, they brought back a botched attempt. And, in the eyes of connoisseurs, it is the botched that was perfect...”
“One takes a child two or three years old, one puts him into a porcelain vase...the child expands without growing, slowly filling the contours of the vase with his compressed flesh and twisted bones. This bottled development continues for several years. At a certain point, it becomes irreparable. When one judges that this has occurred and that the monster is made, one breaks the vase, the child comes out, and one has a man in the shape of a pot.”
Agree 100%
attacks on reality are a necessary component of tyranny
Well that certainly will “fundamentally change America” now won’t it.
Damn I’m glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
SMH
What the hell happened to my country? When I was in college I took Psychology 101. Way back then they talked about a “homosexual phase” all children went through. Boys play with boys, girls play with girls. The other sex had cooties. Rarely do they mingle at play time. It was a stage kids grew out of. But now they want to disfigure children in ways they will never recover from. And news flash, you can not change your sex……ever.
The Deep State goes pure evil.
This is horrible, but more horrible is thinking about how we do nothing when these people do horrible things.
It has become that way in the US. This is not a place I recognize anymore. This kind of thing makes me very sad.
Butt, smoking and tattoos are still a NO NO! Nice. The clockwise swirl continues inside the porcelain throne.
And the same Big Med that is insisting kids get vaxxed and stay muzzled is just fine with drugging and mutilating them.
More proof - the Biden administration is owned by SATAN!
The figure that I’ve seen is 0.05% of the population. Not sure what the percentage of red heads is.
Encouraging children to mutilate themselves will cause them to commit suicide later in life.
I predict Ellen Page will be among them.
“For those thinking intersex rarely happens..just saw an article that it happens as much as people born with red hair.”
About 2% of humans are born with red hair - 2 in 100.
“Intersex” can be defined loosely or strictly. If you take the looser definitions, where there are “inconsistencies” in various traits associated with sex, the frequency might be as high as 1.6 in 100.
However, these loose definitions border on the absurd - you can include males with less body hair, less muscular definition, etc., and claim they are intersex. Females with larger clitorises or males with smaller penises might be included.
These definitions are far too subjective - and are only useful in promoting political and social agendas.
Using the strict definition - humans born with true ambiguous genitalia - the frequency is about 1 in 4500.
Our government permits the slaughter of infants-in-utero. Why would anyone think the PTB would stop at that.
The trans rights debacle is shaping up to be the new tchotchke for the PTB. I hate to see what will happen when these children are abandoned to the next ‘new thing.’
There should be a special place in hell for those pushing this on unformed little children.
And the Left thinks “climate change” will end humanity.
Remember when “gay conversation” was considered barbaric to the point of being banned on many states?
The same people support this gentitalia mutilation for teens.
Intersex is a medical condition due to a birth defect. That is not the same as transgender. Intersex is also known to occur in other animals, whereas transgender is not.
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