Popular culture vs Science Herd mentality

[Newt]

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Idea of sex change, starkly false

LINK http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/paul- ... sex-change


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The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery. For forty years as the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School—twenty-six of which were also spent as Psychiatrist in Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital—I’ve been studying people who claim to be transgender. Over that time, I’ve watched the phenomenon change and expand in remarkable ways.




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The champions of this meme, encouraged by their alliance with the broader LGBT movement, claim that whether you are a man or a woman, a boy or a girl, is more of a disposition or feeling about yourself than a fact of nature. And, much like any other feeling, it can change at any time, and for all sorts of reasons. Therefore, no one could predict who would swap this fact of their makeup, nor could one justifiably criticize such a decision. At Johns Hopkins, after pioneering sex-change surgery, we demonstrated that the practice brought no important benefits. As a result, we stopped offering that form of treatment in the 1970s. Our efforts, though, had little influence on the emergence of this new idea about sex, or upon the expansion of the number of “transgendered” among young and old.



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First, though, let us address the basic assumption of the contemporary parade: the idea that exchange of one’s sex is possible. It, like the storied Emperor, is starkly, nakedly false. Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men. All (including Bruce Jenner) become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they “identify.” In that lies their problematic future.




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The central issue with all transgender subjects is one of assumption—the assumption that one’s sexual nature is misaligned with one’s biological sex. This problematic assumption comes about in several different ways, and these distinctions in its generation determine how to manage and treat it.




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There are several reasons for this absence of coherence in our mental health system. Important among them is the fact that both the state and federal governments are actively seeking to block any treatments that can be construed as challenging the assumptions and choices of transgendered youngsters. “As part of our dedication to protecting America’s youth, this administration supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for minors,” said Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama. In two states, a doctor who would look into the psychological history of a transgendered boy or girl in search of a resolvable conflict could lose his or her license to practice medicine. By contrast, such a physician would not be penalized if he or she started such a patient on hormones that would block puberty and might stunt growth.



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The larger issue is the meme itself. The idea that one’s sex is fluid and a matter open to choice runs unquestioned through our culture and is reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and in many medical clinics. It has taken on cult-like features: its own special lingo, internet chat rooms providing slick answers to new recruits, and clubs for easy access to dresses and styles supporting the sex change. It is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges.




We are doing a damaging disservice to these individuals by encouraging this behavior and not treating it for what it is. And the media creating shows glamorizing this physiological disorder are part of the problem.

I'm confident that MO5000 and PM, both proponents of science, would agree with the scientist. NOT!

[littlewoody]

So there no hope for reddog 1 or pm !

[Mr.Glock]

Genesis 1:27 nuff said.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

I think Tolerance is Killing Religion in this Country,,,,


The Bible tells us that God not only condemned Sodom and Gomorra for tolerating evil, but also condemned Babylon, Gibeah, Egypt, and other nations for the same reason (Judges 19:15-30, Genesis 19).

Therefore, tolerating evil is not a virtue, no matter how hard Satan wants you to believe that it is. The same God that condemned Eli, because he was tolerant of the vile behavior of his sons, still condemns those who are tolerant of evil. We are not to tolerate it, nor are we to be intolerant of those who condemn it (1Samuel 3:12-13, Jeremiah 23:14, Ezekiel 3:18 and 33:8, Isaiah 5:20).

[bluegrass]

I think Tolerance is Killing Religion in this Country,,,,


The Bible tells us that God not only condemned Sodom and Gomorra for tolerating evil, but also condemned Babylon, Gibeah, Egypt, and other nations for the same reason (Judges 19:15-30, Genesis 19).

Therefore, tolerating evil is not a virtue, no matter how hard Satan wants you to believe that it is. The same God that condemned Eli, because he was tolerant of the vile behavior of his sons, still condemns those who are tolerant of evil. We are not to tolerate it, nor are we to be intolerant of those who condemn it (1Samuel 3:12-13, Jeremiah 23:14, Ezekiel 3:18 and 33:8, Isaiah 5:20).

Um....

Huh?

Rufus...YOUR PARTY is the party of abortion, partial birth abortion, assisted suicide, homosexual marriage, sodomy...the people YOU vote for. You remember, the party that booed GOD and had to vote three times to get HIM included in their platform, even though the nays definitely had the clear majority. Yet you will vote for them no matter what they say or do...


Are you taking your pain meds again??

[Pine Mt Beagles]

My Party,,,is Not for Abortion,,,we are a For A Women's Rights,,,I Believe Women are Not Slaves,,and Do Have A Soul ,,I know that is Contrary to Republican Teaching,but that is How I believe.

As for Gays,,there are many More Gay Republicans,,,such as GOProud,,and Log Cabin Republicans,,I am for Equal rights,,what A Person does is their choice ever since God gave Man free will.

Churches all over the World are Recruiting Gay and Lesbian Members,,Does that make Gay Sexual acts Right ,,not in my opinion.

[bluegrass]

Okay...let's see...NOT for abortion but FOR a woman's RIGHT to have an ABORTION...I guess the only thing you are definitively against would be the rights of the baby to be born. Oh, your party most definitely DOES include ABORTION on DEMAND as one of its platforms...you are woefully uninformed.

I notice you didn't tackle the part about the Democratic party BOOING GOD...easy to go to YouTube and see it so sort of hard to deny huh?

[bluemouse]

Being a sick liberal clown pinemooch maybe you hope planned parenthood sells enough body parts so you could get a raise in your check.