Transgender Frankenstein

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Once, in America, we recognized mental illnesses as what they were; mental illnesses.  Now, we have a segment of political opportunists who have decided to embrace a mental illness as a potential voting block, while trying to label their political opposition as being mentally ill, instead.

Democrats wish you to believe that your desire for individuality is psychotic, and your belief in natural rights such as to own a firearm means you are somehow mentally disturbed.

If homosexuality and transgenderism must be forced upon society (through educating our children on it without our approval, and through legal actions), and if we must be indoctrinated to believe the same as the leftists on the issue, how does the issue fit into a model of liberty?

How about the white guy who thinks he's a Filipino woman?



Is the white guy who thinks he's a Filipino woman suffering from a mental affliction?

Liberal leftism states it is the ideology that believes in science.  If that's the case, how is it that they were so willing to toss aside basic biology?

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, says that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.

A couple years ago the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his remarks in a commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer from a mental illness that leaves them wondering that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.

As a result of the sickness, the suicide rate among "transgendered people" after they go through with the surgery to mutilate their genitals is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”

The Democrat Party, however, has been working on normalizing the concept of transgenderism (the next progression of the slippery slope after they worked to normalize homosexuality. . . either polygamy or pedophilia is next).  The liberal left, from the politicians down to the media and academia are feeding the madness, and are actually harming these people, and society as a whole, with their selfish demand for more votes. . . and power.

Dr. McHugh states what the people caught up in transgenderism really needs is "understanding, treatment and prevention."

“This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken – it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”

Dr. McHugh compared the misassumption of what sex a person is with anorexia, where the person misassumes how they look and become obsessed with losing weight.  The view of themselves has nothing to do with anatomical reality.

In truth, the liberal left is enabling the sickness, and if anything, they are encouraging more people to wander into the madness, and they are feeding the illness all for votes and power - and to encourage the destruction of our moral compass as a society.

What we are seeing now is “misguided doctors” working with very young children who seem to imitate the opposite sex and administering “puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous – even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.”

Dr. McHugh calls such actions "child abuse," especially when considering that studies have shown that close to 80% of those kids will “abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated….”

“’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”

While reality dictates that normalizing the mental illness of gender dysphoria is complete insanity, and is child abuse when applied to children, how do we address the issue when an entire society buys into the madness and embraces that daring to oppose them is abuse, and daring to disagree puts you at odds with the law?

In Canada the Province of Ontario has passed Bill 89, which criminalizes disagreeing with the government's viewpoint regarding transgenderism if the disagreement with the gender of the child is considered to be a part of "a pattern of abuse, neglect or serious emotional harm".  In short, if disagreeing with the child's self-perceived gender is considered to be a part of a list of government defined pattern abuses, the new law gives the provincial government the authority to remove the child from the home.

Specifically, the law says that “gender identity” and “gender expression” are factors to be considered “in the best interests of the child.”

Meanwhile, it deletes the religious faith of the parents, mandating that child protection services consider only the child’s own “creed” or “religion” when assessing the best interests of the child.

In America, the godless Democrats are also chasing the same kind of anti-religious freedom mandates to force the younger generation into the liberal left's opinion of what should be considered normal.  In fact, U.S. Academia believes it to be their duty to change children into homosexuals.

A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) recently argued in favor of using art education to help “kids turn out queer.”

Complaining that “heteronormativity” is pervasive in school curricula, Adam Greteman suggests that “we can, and perhaps should, help our kids turn out queer” through "queer affirmation" strategies in class.

The target ages?  Greteman teaches aspiring K-12 art teachers, so his target age is any age.

Imagine, if you will, walking into your child's kindergarten class, and noticing the teacher using art to try and turn your kid into a homosexual, and then when you look close the art being shown to your child are depictions of homosexual sex.

“This article explores the possibilities of queer theory in art education, and I playfully, perhaps provocatively, ask how art education can help kids turn out queer,” he writes, adding that there is a “need” for art educators to “challenge fears around queer topics.”

Greteman, who identifies as a “queer scholar,” lists a few ways teachers could achieve this, such as implementing “queer art lessons,” embracing a “queerer agenda” in class, and using “queer affirmation” strategies to help gay students feel more included.

He argues that schools have a duty to speak frankly with students about queer sex.

In 2013, Greteman published an article on how bareback sex (male homosexual intercourse) should be taught in sex education programs, to create a “theory of risky (sex) education. He has also written other articles about the role that queer theory can play in education.

The patients are running the asylum, and they are fashioning a societal Frankenstein monster that in the end, because it is an aberration, will be a part of what sends our current civilization into the dustbin of history - unless the villagers with any sense of a moral compass does something about it.

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