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THE SINISTER CREEP OF

GENDER-IDENTITY
IDEOLOGY
by Madeleine Kearns
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Desmond Berg
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 08, 2019, 12:14 PM

11 MINS

With debate over the Equality Act looming, two groups held events in Washington
D.C. last weekend. The first, “Women Stand Up,” was organized by members of
Standing for Women, along with other bipartisan women’s- and lesbian-rights groups
across Britain and North America. The second, “The Inequality of the Equality Act:
Concerns from the Left,” was put on by the Heritage Foundation and featured an all-
liberal panel.

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Jennifer Chavez, a liberal lawyer on the Heritage panel, pointed out an irony:

One of the significant differences between here and the U.K. is that there are
journalists in the U.K. speaking out about [the issue]. And here there are journalists
speaking out but not with the sort of national reach and name recognition that the
journalists who are speaking in the U.K. have had and I think that has made a
humongous difference. So, we need journalists to speaking about this and covering
both sides of the story at least.

Ironically, Chavez was later misquoted (and a correction was issued) by Tim
Fitzsimons of NBC News. Fitzsimons’s piece focused on the conservative politics of
the Heritage Foundation and ignored the progressive parents’ testimony.

This is particularly striking, since the host at the Heritage Foundation, Ryan T.
Anderson, explained that the event had only come about once a progressive mother,
whose autistic daughter has identified as a boy for the past four years, contacted him
saying she’d been ignored by liberal organizations and media.

“As a lifelong Democrat I am outraged by my former party and find it ironic that only
conservative news outlets have reported my story without bias or censorship,” the
mother, who wished to remain anonymous to protect her daughter’s privacy but is
known to National Review, wrote.

Anderson introduced the event by acknowledging that while he and the panel and
audience likely disagreed on a range of issues from abortion to taxes, “If ‘gender
identity’ becomes a protected class in federal civil-rights law, there will be serious
negative consequences. That’s where we agree. And that’s where we can work
together.”

On the panel, she was joined by Kara Dansky of the Women’s Liberation Front
(WoLF), Hacsi Horvath, a lecturer in the department of epidemiology and
biostatistics at the University of California (who identified as transgender for more
than a dozen years), and Julia Beck, a lesbian writer and producer of Women’s
Liberation Radio News, who was kicked off Baltimore’s “LGBTQ Commission” for
stating that only females can be lesbians.

“When a child says they’re transgender, we as a society have been taught to accept
and celebrate this announcement,” Chavez said. She then showed a clip of Jazz
Jennings, star of the American TV series I am Jazz, as he had a “farewell to penis”
party to celebrate his upcoming surgery at age 17.

“But there are many parents who are not celebrating,” Chavez said after the clip.
“They are suffering in silence. They know their children were not ‘born in the wrong
bodies.”

Chavez then shared four stories, seen by National Review, from parents who wished
to remain anonymous. The first was of a 13-year-old autistic child who believed
herself to be transgender after watching a school presentation. Without evaluation or
therapy, the mother was told by a “gender therapist” to buy her child a breast binder
and put her on puberty-blocking drugs. If she didn’t comply, she was told, her child
would face a high risk of suicide. She only realized later how inaccurate and
baseless this clinical advice had been.

“Why are physicians medicalizing children in the name of an unproven, malleable

gender identity? Why are lawmakers enshrining gender identity into state and federal
laws?” this liberal mother wrote.
Next was the story of a 14-year-old girl with a history of trauma, who, out of the blue,
announced that she was male. She accused her parents of child abuse when they
refused to call her a male name and use male pronouns. Though they were
investigated and found to be supportive, they were forced by the Department of
Child Services to meet with a transgender adult who could “educate” them on these
issues.

“Without my knowledge, a pediatric endocrinologist taught my daughter, a minor, to

inject herself with testosterone. She then ran away to Oregon where state law at the
age of 17 allowed her . . . to undergo a double mastectomy and radical
hysterectomy. . . . The level of outrage and rage I’m experiencing as a mother is
indescribable. Why does Oregon law allow children to make life-altering medical
decisions? . . . Why are doctors who took an oath to first do no harm allowed to
sterilize and surgically mutilate mentally ill, delusional children?” the mother wrote.

Another story was about a lesbian couple whose seventh-grade daughter came
home from sleepaway camp and announced she was male. “We may be lesbians,
but we are not confused about biology,” the mother wrote.

A common theme in all the stories was how “gender identity” laws and policies had
tied parents’ hands behind their backs, demonized them, and destroyed their
relationship with their child. The media have played a part in this, too, as Fitzsimons
demonstrated.

Major health organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, are

moving in the direction of a surface-level, activist-driven “medical consensus” that is
anything but — and many doctors who know better are afraid to speak out.

Though Americans enjoy free speech rights, speaking out can still have serious
professional and parental consequences. The state of New Jersey, for instance,
encourages children to report their parents to child services if they refused to use
male pronouns and names. Meanwhile “conversion therapy” — an activist invented
term which was initially used to oppose voluntary therapies for adult homosexuals
and is now applied to children with gender dysphoria — have been banned for
minors in New Jersey, California, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii, Delaware, Maryland, New
Hampshire, and New York. I explain more on so-called “conversion therapy” and the
euphemism of “gender-affirmation” in another piece:

Broadly speaking, there are three main approaches for youth with gender dysphoria:
1) a range of treatments from psychotherapy to peer relations, which attempt to
resolve root causes; 2) an intermediary therapeutic approach known as “watchful
waiting”; and 3) gender affirmation (which involves social or medical transition). In
recent years, however, activists have been increasing the pressure to make gender-
affirming treatment the only treatment.

While gender dysphoria, a marked feeling of incongruence with one’s biological sex,
may have a biological component — it does not explain 100 percent of
the variance. Moreover, the suggestion that gender dysphoria is the symptom of
some quasi-mystical immaterial reality — a transgender identity — is unsupported,
leading to the fiction that a human being can be literally “trapped in the wrong body.”
Certainly, a human being might feel that way. But what might be causing these
feelings? This is the question in desperate need of inquiry.

The Center for Disease Control reports that 2 percent of schools’ populations
nationwide identify as transgender. A U.K. government investigation is looking into
why there has been an increase of 4000 percent among adolescent females being
referred for transition treatment in the last eight years.

One important factor could be “peer and social contagion”, which Lisa Littman, a
doctor at Brown University, identified in a PLOS One study. Heritage panelist Hacsi
Horvath, an expert in systematic review methods who himself presented as a woman
for over ten years, suggested that for females, a transgender identity can stem from
internalized misogyny and response to trauma, while for males, it can stem from
internalized homophobia or a fetish known as auto-gynephilia.

Might Horvath be right? The overarching and unproven theory of “gender identity”
leaves no room to explore.

Gender-identity ideology is not a debate between Left and Right, secular and
religious. It is being deployed by transgender activists who aren’t prepared to have
their arguments scrutinized or tested. Unquestioning acceptance of gender-identity
ideology blurs the lines between science and ideology, justice and injustice,
women’s rights and oppression, and child protection and abuse. These feminists and
liberals are absolutely right — it must be resisted.

via National Review

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politics ideology LGBTQ male men sex transgender women
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