There has been a meteoric rise in the acceptance of transgenderism as a human right. It has garnered enough support from the Left that to question transgenderism is to be ‘transphobic’ and disqualified from the discussion.
The tragic fact is transgenderism is worse than unscientific. It produces substantial harm to individuals and the general public. The Left has adopted this to further a cultural narrative, regardless of the tragic consequences.
A Man Becomes a Woman and a Dragon
There is actually a man who ‘transitioned’ to appear female and went on to ‘transition’ to appear as if he were a dragon. This man’s name is Eva Tiamat.
He is featured in an article from the left-wing publication, “Vice.” The author also has ‘transitioned’ from male to the appearance of a female.
The author spent a day with the dragon lady and came away impressed. Eva revealed that he had been abandoned and brutalized as a child and young adult.
Eva had also fathered a child and recently contracted HIV. He decided to attempt becoming a ‘she,’ but found that didn’t ease his trauma.
So, he chose to attempt to become other than human.
Tiamat has undergone extreme body modification to become a dragon. Her ears and nostrils have been removed, her eyes are stained green, and she is covered in implanted horns and tattooed scales. Tiamat no longer looks human.
I have seen a photo of Eva Tiamat and there is one thing the interviewer got right, he no longer looks human. Worse, this is becoming mainstream and has been elevated to the status of legally protected human rights.
Transgender ‘Rights’ Are Becoming Legal Rights
The ‘transgender rights movement’ has gained widespread acceptance in popular culture. In fact, it is now routinely claimed that transgenderism is a basic human right.
Transgenderism rocketed to social popularity with the ‘transition’ of Bruce Jenner from a male to appearing as the ‘female’ Caitlyn Jenner. He appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine’s, July 2015, issue.
He was also celebrated on ESPN’s Espy Awards later in 2015. Since then he has greatly enhanced the cultural status of the transgender movement.
Another key to cultural acceptance has been the rapid affirmation by social media on the internet. Perhaps the most infamous has been the 56 new gender categories offered by Facebook in recent years.
More alarming is the swift enshrinement of transgenderism as a legal right. This has been a trend first seen in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
On several occasions dating back to 1986 (Rees v UK), the European Court of Human Rights declined to get involved, but this changed in 2002 when the court held that there was a legal right to transgenderism that nation states had to recognise (Goodwin v UK).
Since then, nations in Europe, South America and recently Canada have joined the legalization train. Full legalization of transgender ‘rights’ began in Argentina.
Argentina broke ground in 2012 with a law that is considered the gold standard for legal gender recognition: anyone over the age of 18 can choose their gender identity, undergo gender reassignment, and revise official documents without any prior judicial or medical approval, and children can do so with the consent of their legal representatives or through summary proceedings before a judge.
There are more than 20 nations with such laws that allow legal recognition of anyone who claims to be a transsexual, even if there has been no surgical alteration. The United States has seen this movement gain legal approval in various states, beginning with Oregon.
…the state of Oregon is now giving out ID at birth with an ‘x’ in addition to a mark for ‘boy’ or ‘girl.’ It is called a non-binary identification. In other words, biological reality can be ignored by the parents and the government.
Transgenderism Is Unscientific and Delusional
Until the year 2013, it was understood that a person who wanted to attempt changing from one sex to another was mentally ill.
The Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, is the “bible” for psychiatric diagnosis. In the pre-2013 DSM-IV, anyone “identifying” as other than their biological gender had Gender Identity Disorder. As a disorder, it was a mental illness.
The current designation in the newest DSM classifies this sexual identity crisis as Gender Dysphoria. Thus is insanity normalized to start a new human rights movement.
As a disorder, it was diagnosed that those asserting they were ‘trapped in the wrong sex’ were ill. Why? Because it meant denying a basic reality of existence.
Biology tells us that sexual identity is determined at the start of gestation in the womb. We are simply male or female at the genetic level, and that doesn’t change.
DNA doesn’t lie and isn’t malleable. You are what you are and it is delusional to believe otherwise.
Of course, we didn’t need science to tell us who was who a thousand years before science was formalized. We haven’t required genetics to determine what sex our child is since humanity came to be.
Yet today it is risky to enlighten transgender proponents about reality. As those who have publically dared to do so can attest, it quickly invites the wrath of the Left.
However, it is far riskier not to assert reality for that submits substance to the whim of emotion and feeling. That factor makes transgenderism very dangerous to a free society.
Transgenderism Is Dangerous to Free Society
One of the nations named above, Canada, has begun to experience significant resistance to its law favoring transgenderism. It requires referring to a transgendered person by the gender pronoun of their choice.
This resistance has come primarily from one man, Jordan Peterson. He resists this law because it requires him to use “gender-neutral” pronouns when referring to transgendered people.
Dr. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Ontario. He is a bestselling author and has become an internet sensation accumulating 1.4 million subscribers to his YouTube channel.
Peterson’s argument centers on the issue of free speech. He believes the Canadian legislation is a case of government suppressing speech it doesn’t agree with.
Canada’s new gender-neutral language requirement is spreading to their southern neighbor, the United States. Peterson has a warning for America concerning this.
If you are wondering, reasonably, why any of this might be relevant to Americans, you might note that legislation very similar to Bill C-16 has already been passed in New York City. Authorities there now fine citizens up to $250,000 for the novel crime of “mis-gendering” — referring to people by any words other than their pronouns of choice (including newly constructed words such as zie/hir, ey/em/eir and co).
The ‘trans’ agenda seeks to legislate liberty away, beginning with free speech. This is patently lethal to a free society.
In public education, the Obama regime sought to normalize this by removing the distinction between the sexes in bathrooms and locker rooms. Some businesses, most famously Target stores, have embraced this with public bathrooms.
Incidents of pre-surgical males claiming the transgender mantle invading women’s and girls public bathrooms have occurred. Their claim is really all that is needed and we are to be certain that none of these are waiting to prey on children.
But we don’t have to envision that scenario. So-called authorities in the field are already using transgenderism to devastate little children.
Transgenderism Is Destructive to Children
The most disturbing aspect of the transgender movement is the targeting of children. This has now invaded our public education system at the level of grade school.
Grade school indoctrination is but the first step. As pre-pubescent children accept the ‘gender fluidity’ fairy tale, they become naturally curious.
The curiosity of these toddlers is encouraged toward transgender expression by the teachers and school administrators. Inevitably, as they grow a portion of those children will mimic what seems to please the adults in charge.
Transgender proponents wait for this moment and are prepared to exploit it. The next step is encouraging whatever children are curious and assuring them they are indeed transgender and should begin the process of ‘transitioning.’
Then shameless adults move the child toward ‘modifying’ their bodies to become the opposite sex. There are at least 45 clinics that specialize in transitioning pre-teen children through puberty.
The clinics function both as specialists in the physical procedure and as cells to recruit likely candidates among the children and their parents. Author Ryan T. Anderson gives a description of this horrifying truth.
Inside the clinic parents are presented with a Trans for Tots regime where one size fits all. A three–year–old that just finished toddling, but is sexually wise beyond his years will begin “social transitioning.” The child gets a new name, new gender and starts playing for a new team as he lives as the opposite sex. As the child approaches puberty… the child is given a drug cocktail for life that blocks the onset of puberty and as Anderson terms it, “traps the child in a prepubescent body.” …Then as early as the freshman year of high school the process of producing the right body begins. Puberty blockers are traded for hormone treatment. As the 18th birthday approaches — earlier for some particularly zealous surgeons — surgical reassignment is possible. Although the new euphemism for this is irreversible body vandalism is “gender affirmation surgery.”
The drugs administered to these children have not been well-studied and evaluated for probable harmful effects that will result. The side-effects of puberty blockers are almost wholly unknown, and it is worth noting that these are not drugs tested and approved by the FDA.
There Is No Turning Back for the Children
By the time the drugs are administered, it is too late to back out. Deceitful physician advocates assure the faint-hearted that these blockers are reversible.
The truth is these doctors don’t know what will happen if the child stops taking these drugs. However, that fact doesn’t even slow down the tragic process.
Nor has the process stood still. For example, to bolster the false claims of a ‘safe’ gender ‘reassignment,’ doctors in the U.S. are performing medically unnecessary double mastectomies on teen girls. Moreover, American tax dollars are paying for these actions under the rubric of scientific study.
The National Institutes of Health granted multiple millions of dollars for a very slanted and flawed study of the effects of puberty blockers by one Dr. Johanna Olson of Children’ Hospital of Los Angeles. She decided to go further in this experiment.
Olson decided to see how dysphoric girls felt about mastectomies. Referring to “chest dysphoria” and “chest reconstruction,” apparently avoiding the word “breast” because it connotes the stubborn biological reality of being female …Olson had 68 surgically diminished girls fill out her “novel” scale (which she acknowledged could be bogus) between one and five years after their surgery. Thirty-three of these girls were under 18 at the time of surgery. Two were only 13 years old, and five were only 14.
Olson claimed that almost none of these girls regretted their mastectomies. However, since they were all interviewed only five years or less afterward, long-term regret and harm were disregarded.
Moreover, a cardinal rule of scientific studies is that a control group must be part of such research. Without a control group, a study will only reveal one side of the equation and give a manipulated result.
Olson did not use a control group in the studies on puberty blockers or the effects of slicing off female breasts. This is unscientific and any results garnered from it are false and harmful and potentially destructive to all children in America and around the globe.
This Tragic Evil Can Be Combatted
Just when activist pseudo-science seems to have the upper hand, new research has brought additional ammunition against this tragic agenda. Researcher Lisa Littman has identified a phenomenon named “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” in a 2018 scientific study.
The research was concerned with a rapid increase in numbers of teens and young adults who were identifying as transgender without any history of such desires. There were even groups of people declaring trans-status together.
The conclusion? ROGD seems to occur more because of “social and peer contagion,” than some early gender confusion.
Other scientific facts can also be marshaled to the fight.
…the American Psychological Association’s Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology admits that prior to the widespread promotion of transition affirmation, 75 to 95 percent of pre-pubertal children who were distressed by their biological sex eventually outgrew that distress.
This reveals it is far likelier a child who is gender-confused is experiencing a temporary condition. If left to natural processes of growth, the normal behavior will return.
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27 [NASB]