Posted on 02/18/2021 6:57:36 AM PST by RetiredArmy
As the social media giants continue to crack down on those who violate their trans-activist talking points (see here and here), another perspective has been raised from an unexpected source. I’m talking about a powerful, deeply moving article posted in Newsweek and titled, “We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know.”
The author of the op-ed is Scott Newgent, self-described as “a 48-year-old transgender man.” What Newgent has written is courageous, deeply revealing, poignant, and accurate.
Perhaps others will now heed these urgent warnings, since those of us on the conservative Christian side who have been presenting similar cases have been largely ignored to this day.
Six years ago, Newgent was told by the medical community that she could turn from a woman into a man. But, Newgent adds, “all the negatives were glossed over.”
As a result, “I have suffered tremendously, including seven surgeries, a pulmonary embolism, an induced stress heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, arm reconstructive surgery, lung, heart and bladder damage, insomnia, hallucinations, PTSD, $1 million in medical expenses, and loss of home, car, career and marriage. All this, and yet I cannot sue the surgeon responsible—in part because there is no structured, tested or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care.”
Most of us cannot imagine this kind of trauma, let alone imagine telling a story like this to the whole world.
Yet, because it comes from the mouth of a biological female who now identifies as a male, the author can hardly be called transphobic. Plus, this op-ed was published in Newsweek rather than in a Focus on the Family magazine.
Unfortunately, when Christian conservatives have stated these same facts, we have been branded hateful and bigoted and transphobic. Not only so, but when former transgenders like Walt Heyer or Laura Perry tell their own, agonizing (yet redemptive) stories, they too are branded hateful and bigoted. (To see their stories for yourself, watch this free documentary. You won’t regret taking the time. You can also visit the SexChangeRegret website for more.)
But it is love and truth that caused Newgent to write, not hate. As Newgent states, “It is not transphobic or discriminatory to discuss this—we as a society need to fully understand what we are encouraging our children to do to their bodies.”
That’s why Abigail Shrier wrote her important book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, named a book of the year by The Economist and one of the best books of 2021 by The Times and The Sunday Times.
The alarm must be sounded. The warning must be issued. Not only are adults destroying their bodies and their lives, but our children are doing so as well. Doesn’t love compel us to speak?
Consequently, when Amazon refused to allow Shrier’s publisher to advertise the book on their site (sell it, yes, but advertise it, no), wasn’t it Amazon, not the publisher, that displayed dangerous bias?
Newgent, who previously identified as a lesbian, experienced many doubts about the transitioning process. But rather than the professionals slowing down the transition process, they all encouraged her to keep going. This is just what you need!
To the contrary, the surgeries and drugs took a terrible toll on Newgent, who found no real help in the medical world that was so quick to recommend her transition.
“During my post-operation 17 months of sheer survival,” Newgent writes, “I discovered that transgender health care is experimental and that large swaths of the medical industry encourage minors to transition due, at least in part, to fat profit margins.”
Yet those of us who seek to raise a cautionary flag, those of us who say, “Slow down! Let’s see if you can be helped from the inside out,” are branded the haters and the transphobes. How can this be?
I urge everyone reading this article to take the time to read every word of Newgent’s op-ed. A summary cannot begin to do justice to her journey, from the physical pain to the emotional agony to the devastating losses to the list of negative consequences.
In fact, everyone considering “transitioning” should memorize this list of 13 potential consequences. It begins with “decreased life expectancy” and includes “no improved mental health outcomes.” To call it sobering would be a gross understatement. Remarkably, after citing examples from other countries which are rethinking their approach to sex-change surgery and treatments, Newgent writes, “We now have the obligation to work together to slow trans medicalization of minors until they are adults and have the capacity to truly understand the lifelong consequences of transitioning. As a former lesbian and current trans man, I maintain this is not transphobic. It is actually sensitive and caring to recognize that not just one treatment or pathway is right for all kids.”
But of course. It is love that has motivated many of us to call for this very slow down – in particular, love for the children. (You can see for yourself how my call for this on Tyra Banks was received over 10 years ago.)
Newgent closes with this:
“So, endocrinologists and pediatricians, moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans, radical feminists and evangelicals, lawyers and psychologists, parents and teachers: My hand is out. I will grab yours and turn down no one. Together, we can build a circle around our most precious resource: our children. Help me fulfill the promise I made on the night I almost gave up, to be here for my children—and now yours. Who’s with me?”
As a conservative evangelical, I say to Scott Newgent: for this cause, I am with you. Let’s do something to stop the madness. Let’s put the children first. And if I can be of help to you in any personal level as you work through your own journey, count me in.
“Ah, when they do an Addadicktome operation, where do they get the tissue?”
The logical answer is from an “organ” donor.
But probably not.
I saw the episode. What started out as a good show has turned into a Leftist preach-fest. I'm considering removing it from my DVR lineup.
The rest of the show was about "People of Color" as doctors. The latest fad is to regard Asians as "people of color" and allies against "whiteness".
I have news for Asians: blacks do not regard you as being a "person of color".
Might?
A dangerous, expensive procedure that does not help the patient is the defining example of quackery.
The docotr who pioneered this “treatment” at Johns Hopkins Med Center refuses to do it now. Says pyschiatric care is the only treatment.
Anybody who wants sex-change surgery don’t have a life to begin with.
Actually, I believe the doctor you are talking about was the director of medicine at Johns Hopkins when that institution pioneered sex change surgery in the United States. The evaluation determined that the surgery did not provide any improvement in the mental health of the patients. They were at least as unhappy 20 years after the procedure as they were before, after undergoing surgery at great risk, pain, and cost.
He determined that sex change surgery did not benefit patients. There have been no “advances” in medicine that would change that conclusion.
Agree !
You remember more of the details then I could recall.
Actually, I believe the doctor you are talking about was the director of medicine at Johns Hopkins when that institution pioneered sex change surgery in the United States. The evaluation determined that the surgery did not provide any improvement in the mental health of the patients. They were at least as unhappy 20 years after the procedure as they were before, after undergoing surgery at great risk, pain, and cost.
He determined that sex change surgery did not benefit patients. There have been no “advances” in medicine that would change that conclusion.
1,000,000,000 big ones she/he/IT says here.
So, they take the pecker of a man wanting to be a woman and give it to a woman who wants to be a man??? Do I have this “straight” (probably the wrong word!!!)?????? Does the woman who wants to be a guy get to choose the “size” of the “organ” that she/goneaaa be a guy/IT wants??
You are right. It originally was about a young man struggling to overcome a handicap. That has become a very small part of the show.
The absurdity of the pregnancy overshadowed the racial propaganda in my memory. Thanks for reminding me.
I do wish I could quote a link, but YouTube removes stuff that contradicts “the narrative” (I.e., their pack of lies).
Anyhoo, Joe Rogan had a fascinating podcast that tracked back thru the transitioning “scientific literature”, such as it is, to what was the starting point of serious study, such as there is.
Some dude, called himself a doctor, located a family with new twin boys. For some reason they allowed him to “modify” one — AKA, mutilate. IT was raised as a girl.
Story goes on with psychotherapy, yada, yada. Both kids got into late teens and both committed suicide.
This was termed a success. Yes, a success. It is the “scientific” foundation of gender disphoria, related surgery, psychobabble, etc.
In reality, many of those wanting a sex change of some sort commit suicide at XXrate — they are fundamentally unhappy people. If you look at group who undergo surgery the suicide rate is the same. They are still unhappy.
Trans surgery, etc., accomplishes nothing at the group level. It does, however, create a new victim class that the everpresent parasites can glom onto to make money.
Your right. I read an article some time back that said the suicide rate of sex changers is extremely HIGH. I seem to remember a number like 60 to 70% of them come to regret what they did and end up killing themselves because this great new person they sought to be did not occur. In the end, it is a sad commentary of one’s life. Suicide is a sad end to one’s life. I cannot even begin to think what one’s mind comes to at a time that you want to kill yourself.
And for us - the innocent citizens in a pandemic fighting for jobs against a new flood of immigrants and illegals? We get to PAY for the damn hell surgery... because Biden wants the military to go back into the trans business... do ALL of the above on taxpayers dime.
Truth is hate in an Orwellian universe...
With an assist from the forearm skin.
It's amazing, sort of like the 2-minutes-after-Inauguration approval of HCQ for covid treatment, that an issue like this was published now, when similar concerns have surfaced in conservative media only—for years—and have been branded bigotry, transphobia, nazism, etc.
MSM hypocrisy aside, thankfully it is published in the MSM now, and I hope many other "Ministry of Truth" indoctrinators will now feel "safe" to tell the truth about trans health risks, now that their Bad Orange Boogieman is out of the WH.
As fiction.
A true, mammalian hermaphrodite does not exist.
There are the occasional chimera which is probably what you are referring to but they are not functional as both sexes.
Even with medical and hormonal therapy it just is not possible to be both.
And they have tried, oh how they have tried. But it remains fiction.
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