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Playing a role in the sudden rise of transgender children may be "transhausen by proxy," a term coined for narcissistic parents who push so-called "gender transitioning" on their children, some experts say. Celebrities are increasingly in the limelight with announcements about their children who come out as transgender or nonbinary. Nonbinary individuals identify as neither male nor female. "Transhausen by proxy" isn't an officially recognized psychological condition. It's a play on an official condition known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP). MSBP is a mental illness that's also sometimes called medical child abuse or factitious disorder imposed on others. It's...

In Canada Free Press writer Milt Harris asks the question “Is A Liberal Strain Of “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy” Responsible For The Transgender Social Contagion?”

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida are considering moving their families to another state over concerns that a new Florida education law – known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – stigmatizes LGBTQ identities and creates a hostile learning environment for LGBTQ children or students with LGBTQ family members. In a report issued Tuesday by the Williams Institute, a public policy research institute based at the UCLA of Law, and Clark University in Massachusetts, 56 percent of LGBTQ parents surveyed said they were considering leaving Florida over concerns about how the new law may impact...

Gad Saad on Hysteria and “Collective Munchausen” around Donald Trump, Speaking Out as an Academic, and Evolutionary Psychology 101 Interviews, Religion | Politics January 23, 2017 | by Malhar Mali | “As somebody who escaped Lebanon and actually hid under desks to avoid death squads, I don’t take well to these idiots from Wellesley College who say, ‘I’m scared to go and buy my hamburgers now that Trump won,’ because it trivializes what true trauma is.” — Gad Saad Gad Saad (@GadSaad) is an outspoken social critic of the lunacies found in the extremes of both political sides. A controversial...

Justina Pelletier finally went home today. Justina is the 16-year-old Connecticut girl who has been held against her will by child welfare officials in Massachusetts for the past 16 months. Her story has resulted in a firestorm of controversy about the treatment of children with rare diseases and parental rights to make medical decisions for their children. The best coverage of the story has probably been provided by The Boston Globe, which did a series of stories a few months ago that can be found here: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/15/justina/vnwzbbNdiodSD7WDTh6xZI/story.html A story about the girl's homecoming can be found here: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/17/judge-orders-custody-justina-pelletier-returned-parents/mDWtuGURNawSuObO0pDX4J/story.html As the...

I was home sick yesterday, so I got to see some of Fox’s daytime coverage. Cavuto had some Tea Party folks on who condemned attacks on others, and then played some of the death threats that they have received. This is nothing new; the left has been doing this sort of thing for years. It has NEVER been fully covered by the MSM. For my next thoughts, let me say that this is 100% conjecture on my part. With disclaimer done, I believe that these attacks on the Democrats could very well have been done by folks on their side....

Austin police have charged a woman with injury to a child after they said she repeatedly fed her 3-year-old daughter human waste, causing her potentially life-threatening infections. An arrest affidavit said that a surveillance video at Dell Children’s Medical Center captured Emily Beth McDonald, 23, on Sunday placing feces in her daughter’s feeding tube. The child had been hospitalized so doctors could treat “serious infections” caused by organisms consistent with those found in feces. The affidavit said that hospital staff decided, based on that information, to place a camera in the child’s room and that it recorded McDonald taking “fecal...

BEAR, Del. -- A former pediatric nurse has been charged with trying to poison her toddler son by injecting human feces into his bloodstream. Stephanie McMullen, 29, was charged Thursday with assault and reckless endangerment counts and released on bail. Doctors at the hospital where McMullen worked alerted police that her 22-month-old son had been hospitalized six times since he was four months old for "serious, potentially life-threatening illnesses," acting police chief Lt. Col. Scott McLaren said. During one examination, doctors found E. coli, a bacteria found in feces, in the boy's bloodstream, and said the only way it could...

Woman pleads guilty to making daughter sick Indianapolis, Feb. 14 - A mother accused of making her daughter sick to get attention pleaded guilty Monday. Doctors at Riley Children's Hospital say they caught 33-year-old Tracie Fleck putting toxins in her daughter's IV. Fleck later confessed to IPD detectives. She entered a guilty plea to charges of felony battery. A judge ordered Fleck to stay away from her 21-month-old daughter. Doctors suspect she suffers from Munchausen by Proxy. That's when a care giver falsifies or induces a patient's illness to gain attention. Fleck faces sentencing on March 2.

Hillary Clinton is running in 2008. This much is certain. Here's the question. What is she going to do about Bill? If you thought the Kerry campaign had trouble getting Teresa to put a sock in it, what do you think Hillary's team is going to have to contend with dealing with the former president, with all the charisma you can pack into a frame that is physically incapable of telling the truth. If she has a chance at winning, she has to be in the limelight. The problem is, he still sucks all the oxygen out of the room....