Posted on 07/21/2023 3:11:35 PM PDT by Prospero
Off topic but I remember years ago a mother and father had a severely handicapped daughter who was bed bound her entire life and would remain so. Her parents wanted physicians to perform a mastectomy and hysterectomy because they were elderly and knew taking care of her would be much easier with cleanliness and turning her.
It was a news story that made talk radio shows.
I've always believed everything should be decided by the parents. Vaccines, surgeries, school choice, everything. But they need all of the scientific information and so much seems agenda driven.
It was a painful road.
I’m deeply concerned that people like my child are now at great risk due to the sheer number of wackjobs claiming the trans mantle.
Where before, I could explain her condition and people would be compassionate or pray for her, now everyone presumes the worst about her, me, our family, because this issue has been pushed to outrageous extremes by a willing media and their enablers.
I’m also deeply concerned at the number of children being subjected to a Frankensteining process that direct contradicts known medical fact.
My sympathy to you and your family regarding these difficulties you all have faced.
The conditions you mention such as Klinefelters seem to be included by some under the term intersex, even tho some, now or in the past, restrict(ed) intersex to a particular condition in which the external organs do not appear to match the internal organs due to malformation.
Having looked into this, but not being by any means any sort of expert, it seems to me that there is a difference between what most people describe as gender dysphoria or transgenderism and the physical anomalies such as those your children have.
When I discuss this issue with others, they use the existence of people with “physical* sex-differentiating issues to argue for a gender spectrum, thus validating the treatment of a mental problem by physical/medical means. 8 argue against this.
I see that you call your daughter trans and say she had GD (which I took to mean gender dysphoria), which makes me question my arguments against the gender-affirming care model, so am I doing the wrong thing?
Thanks!
Gender affirming care actually runs contrary to medical science.
For example, boys born with Klinefelters (XXY chromosomes) may experience gender dysphoria but typically girls born with Turners Syndrome (one X and a damaged/partial second X) do not. Prior to the “affirmation” push, boys with Klinefelters were treated with testosterone and the dysphoria was mitigated. Now, they push to transition instead of to cure.
XYY Chromosome Syndrome can very infrequently cause gender dysphoria. I’m looking further into that.
NCCAH, CAH, and hyperthyroidism are all systems on overdrive. Usually, puberty blockers are used to slow the system down (one of the few legitimate helpful uses for it). Instead, they want to hack and alter.
But what they are doing now is horrific. Most cases of endocrine-based GD subside in the early 20s when puberty ends. A wait and see approach is needed.
I didn’t even touch on possible tumors, which can also play havoc on the endocrine system. Parents need to dig and push to rule out possible medical causes. If it’s not medical, it’s mental.
Hermaphrodites, ambiguous genitalia, intersexed also needs a wait and see approach or corrective (not transitioning) surgery to help the person live a normal life.
But yes, there are people actually born that way. They are not evil, not pedos, not groomed. They are how God made them.
And then there are a bunch of evil, creepy people climbing, uninvited, on the bus with them that don’t belong there. Drag queens are not trans. Cross-dressers are not trans. You don’t just wake up one day and decide to be trans at your convenience. It is a personal hell and incurable life sentence.
So how can you tell the difference?
Easy.
Truly trans people will fly under the radar, trying not to draw attention to themselves as “trans.” They want to be known as a good student, worker, professional, etc., to escape that prevailing sense of “otherness” that haunts their lives.
The pretenders will fly their flags high and proud, act like idiots, grab headlines, shove their “transgenderism” in your face.
If you met my daughter, you would think she is a bright, polite, respectful young man. Most people never know.
You should push hard against “gender affirming” care. It is diabolical.
Certain segments of the medical industry draw a hard line on intersexed (hermaphrodites, ambiguous genitalia, etc.) and syndromes where the genitalia is normal and intact, but the endocrine system is askew. Others include that group because dysphoria is a known potential side-effect.
For intersexed individuals, usually chromosome testing is done and reparative surgery is performed so the child can live a quasi-normal life. They are not transitioning.
For children with endocrine issues and gender dysphonia, a large percentage will cease to be dysphoric once puberty ends (even into early 20s). The endocrine system settles down and the imbalance corrects.
Only a small percentage continue to suffer from GD after their early 20s. They are now adults and can make their own choices.
It’s important that parents do extensive endocrinological testing (particularly the ACTH stimulation test), genetic testing, as well as ruling out and tumors in the brain or on the glands. Until you rule everything out, you are flying blind and at the mercy of the “specialists.”
Once you have checked every possible physical cause, acknowledge that it’s psychological and get them, and the entire family, lots of counseling. The overwhelming majority of kids identifying as “trans” are not trans; they need mental help.
Nowadays, articles indicate gender clinics are dispensing hormones like candy with only a 15 minute consultation and no testing. This is lunacy.
Parents have to fight for their kids, trust their gut, learn everything they can, and never stop loving them. If their child is one of the unlucky ones, pray for them, support them, embrace them. You wouldn’t hate a child with an incurable cancer; same approach applies here.
Bkmk to read later.
You are right. The women have the larger role.
My Mother was great.
I have a twin brother and when we were young we were terrors.
My father put screens on the inside of our bedroom window, We threw anything that was in our reach...not fighting just playing “catch.”
I remember friends and family saying to my Mom, “Dorothy, we just don’t know how you do it!” It was a compliment.
Amen to Mothers.
That distinction belongs to Magnus Hirschfeld, whose Institute for Sexual Research in Weimar Berlin carried out the first (known) attempts at gender reassignment in the 1920s and 30s, until his institute was destroyed and his papers burned on the night of May 10, 1933, in the first and largest "book burning" under the new German government:
Yes it does like Kidney dialysis.
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