The idea that someone can change their gender by changing their name or getting hormone treatment or surgery is self-evidently absurd. Nothing can alter DNA.
Yet men are allowed to play in women’s sports and boys are allowed into girls’ locker rooms on as little as a declaration that they “identify” as female.
The movement behind the fantasy is responsible for possibly irreversible operations performed on minors.
No wonder there’s so much rage here. Transgenderism provided the motivation for at least two school shootings and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Illusions can be deadly.
— Don Feder, Oct. 14 WorldNetDaily column
A breath of fresh air is blowing through America’s zeitgeist – its intellectual, moral and cultural climate. Wokeness is under siege, in no small measure to the left’s transgender overreach.
The trans issue was never just about sex. It’s about whether Americans will be forced to lie by their own government, including mandatory use of false pronouns.
Now, widespread rebellion indicates that we are in sort of a 1960s in reverse.
[…]More than 20 states enacted laws criminalizing counseling that does not affirm homosexual, bisexual, or transgender behavior. You can take your child to a licensed counselor only to reinforce sexual confusion, not to steer them away from it.
For years, this tyrannical system faced no serious challenge until some states began banning what is euphemistically called “gender affirming care.”
It’s part of an overall recovery of common sense and sanity. So far, 25 states – all governed by Republicans – have moved to protect minors from chemical and hormonal experimentation and the surgical mutilation of body parts.
— Robert Knight, Oct. 14 WND column
For his years in the Oval Office, one of Joe Biden’s focal points was to promote transgenderism. He wanted tax funding for body-mutilating surgeries on children, his bureaucracy demanded that nude boys and men be allowed to mingle in the showers and locker rooms of private areas for women. He even promoted the extremist administration of chemicals to children.
He made it fashionable. But he’s now out of office.
And a new report says the transgender identification among young people is in a “free-fall.”
The professor of politics who assembled the details explained, “The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health played a role.”
— Bob Unruh, Oct. 15 WND article
Ironically, the most extreme of all these conditions – at least in terms of its preferred treatment, which often involves the amputation of healthy body parts, and whose sufferers have one of the highest suicide-attempt rates of any population on earth – has for some strange reason been de-pathologized, that is, reclassified as perfectly normal.
Indeed, the 2013 renaming of “gender identity disorder” as “gender dysphoria,” thanks to relentless pressure from the powerful and epically intimidating LGBT lobby, means the condition itself is no longer considered abnormal or “disordered” at all, but only the anxiety (“dysphoria”) one may feel over it – anxiety that LGBT apologists blame almost entirely on public ignorance, intolerance and bigotry.
“Transgender” is, after all, the T in the LGBT coalition, which represents itself as a minority community exactly like blacks and Jews – so, no room for mental illness in the mix.
Ironically, criticism has been directed toward the most recent edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual” among mental health professionals, who claim the manual makes it too easy to diagnose people as “disordered.”
[…]Translation: If you think there’s something wrong with people who want to amputate healthy parts of their body, it’s only because you are biased in favor of oppressive Western culture, and hung up on the outdated notion that there are just two genders. If you were more multiculturally enlightened, you would realize it is just your own prejudice, bigotry and narrow frame of reference that is the real problem here.
But back in the world of reality, transgenderism (or transsexualism) is not normal. In fact, it’s so abnormal and unnatural that a staggeringly tragic 41% of all transgender individuals living in the United States have reportedly attempted to commit suicide, according to one widely cited study.
In fact, the former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Paul R. McHugh, M.D., confirms what virtually everyone knows, but cannot admit – that transgenderism is indeed a serious “mental disorder.”
[…]Yet while the “transabled” (who want to cut off various healthy body parts so they can feel whole) are considered seriously mentally ill, the transgendered (who likewise want to cut off various healthy body parts so they can feel whole) are being lionized not only as normal, but as a protected and courageous minority.
It turns out, there are no outer limits to today’s explosion of fluid, you-are-what-you-feel reality
[…]Americans are in desperate need of some serious self-reflection and a radical course correction. Perhaps more than ever before, we need to take a good, long, hard, uncompromisingly honest look at ourselves in the mirror.
But what will we see staring back at us?
Will we – like the starving and emaciated anorexic girl who sees in the mirror only “disgusting fat,” or the man with transgender feelings who sees the reflection of a woman beckoning – continue to be drawn into a dark and delusional world where intense emotions of mysterious origin drown out obvious reality?
Or, will we finally be able to see past all the seductive illusions and catch a glimpse of our true selves once again – human beings, made by a great Creator God in His image – “male and female He created them”? Will we realize that this amazing life is ultimately a war zone, whose battlefields are every human mind, where forces of truth and deception, light and darkness, good and evil vie daily for our embrace and our loyalty?
— David Kupelian, Oct. 15 WND column