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Gay British actor warns against sex change for children

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British homosexual actor Rupert Everett has warned parents and clinicians against encouraging children who believe they should be the opposite sex. Speaking from his own experience as a boy, Everett said, “I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn’t then, because I’d be on hormones and I’d be a woman. After I was 15, I never wanted to be a woman again.” Everett’s comments support not only medical evidence but also the psychotherapeutic theories that got Toronto child psychologist Dr. Kenneth Zucker fired last December from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. They also go against the LGBT lobby that insists gender dysphoria is an inherent, medically neutral condition, not a mental illness. Everett made his comments to the   Sunday Times , acknowledging that in his own childhood he wanted to be a girl and dressed as such all the time. Had the medical-therapeutic community’s current support for transgenderism prevailed then, along with its willi...

State senator’s comments cause transgender backlash

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Recent comments from a group of Republican South Dakota legislators on proposed legislation in the state have caused controversy among the transgender movement. In a discussion on a bill that would limit bathroom and shower facility use in South Dakota schools to students sharing the same gender, State Senator David Omdahl referred to individuals suffering from gender dysphoria as "twisted" due to their identity confusion and said they would benefit from psychological treatment. "I'm sorry if you're so twisted you don't even know who you are," said Omdahl, explaining the intent behind   HB 1008   at a legislative coffee this past Saturday. Omdahl first praised the bill, stressing that it was about protecting the state's children, before indicating that gender dysphoria would be better served by psychological treatment. "They're treating the wrong part of the anatomy. They ought to be treating it up here," he said, pointi...