Posted on 10/16/2018 3:24:28 PM PDT by Ennis85
ITV’s new Sunday-night drama, Butterfly, is as moving as it is distressing. Eleven-year-old Max (Callum Booth-Ford) likes feather boas and pink crop-tops. Max thinks he wants to be a girl, but his builder father is appalled. He slaps the boy, screams in his face, insists to Vicky, Max’s well-meaning mother (Anna Friel), that “it’s about us fixing him”. The parents separate under the strain. At school, Max is bullied for being a “freak”. His granny is an off-the-peg bigot.
The characters who question Max’s choice to become Maxine, and to go to school wearing a skirt, are pantomime villains. The drama unashamedly supports the transgender cause and leverages viewer sympathy to the, ahem, max.
There is a truly terrible scene where the boy attempts suicide. By the end of episode one, he is embarked on the road to girlhood, with a counsellor advocating “puberty blockers”.
Praised for its veracity, Tony Marchant’s drama worked closely with Mermaids UK, a charity that supports “gender diverse and transgender children”. In 2015, Mermaids’s CEO, Susie Green, told MPs that the NHS gender dysphoria clinic for young people was “a service where there is a 48 per cent suicide-attempt risk” – a figure that has been widely discredited.
Portraying a suicidal adolescent to prove a non-existent case is highly irresponsible (copycat attempts are a serious problem). “See, if you don’t agree to our demands, more kids will top themselves!” is little more than moral blackmail. But, hey, factual inaccuracies must not be allowed to get in the way of the trans bandwagon, which mows down dissent like Boudicca’s chariot.
I have a transgender friend and I would never underestimate the pain of someone who grows up believing they are in the wrong body. It’s a very good thing that early help is now available.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Reopen BEDLAM and stick these nutters in it!
Chromosome deniers. Where’s the science?
Absolutely. They represent such a tiny percentage of the population, yet you’d think they’re 10% of the population based on media coverage.
Where was the “barf alert” for this jewel? :-P
To be clear, I fully appreciate the idea of stopping the flood of LGBTwhatever propaganda!
I was referring to the description of that show... Yuck!
They seek to normalize their behavior to achieve easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN!
>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/<
On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.
The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6pDGNQw3I<
The Left's Push For Pedophile Acceptance
Max’s Dad was right... the kid needed a wake up call to reality.
There’s no such thing as a transgender just a f—ked up society and people with severe psychological issues.
You are correct
We are told gender fluidity is enttirely normal and natural but its proponents are unable or unwilling to explain why 99% of the persons claiming such status are in permissive, indulgent Western democracies with little or no distribution elsewhere.
you are right...at the moment it is the pop thing to claim within libral circles of the 20 something crowd. true transgender is about 0.5 of the population and it is a mental disorder that the person has. I have a sister who identifies as man and the worst thing ever to happen for her was liberalism looking for the next victim group after states started to recognize gay marriage. if that had not happened the whole trans issue would not of been politicized and my sister could get help from Qualified psychiatrist rather then having her psychiatric disorder exploited and indulged.
“We are told gender fluidity is entirely normal and natural but if you’re gay there’s no changing, no hope and NO EXIT: you’ve gotta stay that way.”
Leave T.V
So your advice is meaningless.
Butterfly. More like Mothra.
Put the whacko leftists on parade
More speech
Let normal people see whack jobs and reject them on their own
Oh also
GWT RID OF YOUR TELEVISION YESTERDAY
True...which is why if and when a group of persons claim to be flamingos in human form they will be appended to LGBT which is strictly - and always has been - a political faction.
The mentally ill should be treated not put on a pedastal . They aren’t “normal “.
Meanwhile, down in the buckle of the Bible Belt:
https://ww2.mc.vanderbilt.edu/transgenderhealth/53150
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