‘Transgender’ conditioning is ‘child abuse’
George Orwell
famously wrote, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act.”
For
those tethered to biological reality, the self-evident truth that, prior to
birth, people develop either “XY” or “XX” genetic markers and, as such, are
objectively, and shall forever remain, either male or female, is as plain as
blue is blue or pink is pink.
Indeed,
notwithstanding the politically driven “LGBT” agenda that pretends otherwise,
those who suffer with “gender dysphoria” disorder will stay, as born, either
male or female, whether or not they play dress up, sterilize themselves and
destroy healthy reproductive organs.
Hence,
it’s of little surprise that, tragically, of those who put themselves through
this imaginary “transition,” 41 percent will subsequently attempt suicide.
Still,
this “progressive” socio-political scheme moves quickly from merely pitiable
and delusional to ghastly and abusive when children are the targets – when
selfish adults exploit sexually confused young people by feeding their “gender”
delusion and pumping them full of dangerous hormones, or otherwise surgically
mutilating and sterilizing them for life via so-called “gender reassignment
surgery.”
In
order to address the growing momentum of this harmful, gender-bending,
pseudo-scientific quackery, a number of America’s leading medical experts on
the subject have finally weighed in. “The American College of Pediatricians
(ACPeds) urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition
children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of
the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality,” they warn.
This
child-health advocacy group has released a report that
determines, among other things:
1. Human
sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic
markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder.
“The
norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality
is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and
flourishing of our species,” they observe. “This principle is self-evident. The
exceedingly rare disorders of sexual differentiation (DSDs), including but not
limited to testicular feminization and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, are all
medically identifiable deviations from the sexual binary norm, and are rightly
recognized as disorders of human design. Individuals with DSDs do not
constitute a third sex.”
2. No
one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an
awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and
psychological concept; not an objective biological one.
Let’s
take it a step further. The “gender” phenomenon is, in the larger sense, an
artificial and anti-theist-tainted social construct. It’s an overt act of
fist-shaking rebellion against the laws of nature and nature’s God.
And
it’s dangerous.
Johns
Hopkins Hospital was the pioneer in “gender reassignment surgery.” It now
refuses to perform these discredited cosmetic procedures. Dr. Paul R. McHugh,
the hospital’s former psychiatrist-in-chief and current distinguished service
professor of psychiatry, is among those who participated in the ACPeds report.
He has noted in the past that, as even the left-leaning APA reluctantly
acknowledges, transgenderism is a “mental disorder” and that the idea of a “sex
change” is “biologically impossible.” “People who identify as ‘feeling like the
opposite sex’ or ‘somewhere in between’ do not comprise a third sex. They
remain biological men or biological women,” determines ACPeds.
3. A
person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of
confused thinking.
“When
an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise
healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological
problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as
such,” notes the report. “These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender
dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a
recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V). The psychodynamic
and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.”
4. Puberty
is not a disease, and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous.
“Reversible
or not, puberty-blocking hormones induce a state of disease – the absence of
puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously biologically healthy
child,” notes ACPeds.
5. According
to the DSM-V, as many as 98 percent of gender confused boys and 88 percent of
gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally
passing through puberty.
And
so what do we call a physician or a parent who takes a gender-confused boy,
with a 98 percent chance of full recovery, and severely and irrevocably harms
that child with dangerous hormones or sterilization surgery?
We
should be calling them what they are: criminals.
To
its credit, the ACPeds report goes on to identify this so-called “gender
ideology” for exactly what it is: “Child abuse.”
6. Children
who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex
hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex hormones are associated with dangerous
health risks including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots,
stroke and cancer.
So
much for the Hippocratic Oath: “Practice two things in your dealings with disease:
either help or do not harm the patient.”
Gender
ideology is anathema to good medicine and sound science.
7. Rates
of suicide are 20 times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and
undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most
LGBQT–affirming countries.
“What
compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate
knowing that after puberty as many as 88 percent of girls and 98 percent of
boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical
health?” the report asks.
8. Conditioning
children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of
the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.
“Endorsing
gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will
confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to ‘gender
clinics’ where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn,
virtually ensures that they will ‘choose’ a lifetime of carcinogenic and
otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical
mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.”
There
you have it. “Gender ideology” is child abuse – empirically and irrefutably.
Isn’t it high time, at least where minors are concerned and as a matter of
public policy, that we begin treating it as such?
If
such abuse were associated with anything other than the “LGBQT” political
special interests, we already would have.
Reprinted with
permission from Barb Wire.
