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This is why I strongly maintain that, as Orwellian as it sounds, breeding needs to be regulated by the Fed.
I think we could avoid the Eugenics, maybe, if we implemented some intelligence/comptency tests to be able to vote. Of course that also would represent an inherently easy system to rig.
Calum McSwiggan, 26, a YouTuber, posted a photo of himself on social media claiming that he was attacked outside a gay bar in West Hollywood Monday, but the police are telling a different story.
In a statement to The Advocate, Holly M. Perez, captain of the West Hollywood Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, said that authorities responded to McSwiggan's report that he was assaulted by three men outside of a gay club. Officers "were unable to substantiate the assault," Perez said. The YouTuber "had no visible injuries" and was arrested when officers went to the scene "after deputies observed him vandalizing a car." The 26-year-old was booked and photographed (photo above) and placed in a cell by himself at the West Hollywood Station. It was there that station personnel say McSwiggan "was then observed injuring himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone inside the cell."
Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme
by Paul McHugh June 10th, 2015
The idea that ones 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 Schooltwenty-six of which were also spent as Psychiatrist in Chief of Johns Hopkins HospitalIve been studying people who claim to be transgender. Over that time, Ive watched the phenomenon change and expand in remarkable ways.
A rare issue of a few menboth homosexual and heterosexual men, including some who sought sex-change surgery because they were erotically aroused by the thought or image of themselves as womenhas spread to include women as well as men. Even young boys and girls have begun to present themselves as of the opposite sex. Over the last ten or fifteen years, this phenomenon has increased in prevalence, seemingly exponentially. Now, almost everyone has heard of or met such a person.
Publicity, especially from early examples such as Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris, and Renee Richards, has promoted the idea that ones biological sex is a choice, leading to widespread cultural acceptance of the concept. And, that idea, quickly accepted in the 1980s, has since run through the American public like a revelation or meme affecting much of our thought about sex.
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.
Olympic Athlete Turned "Pin-Up" Girl
This history may clarify some aspects of the latest high-profile transgender claimant. Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, is turning away from his titular identity as one of the worlds greatest male athletes. Jenner announced recently that he identifies as a woman and, with medical and surgical help, is busy reconstructing his physique.
I have not met or examined Jenner, but his behavior resembles that of some of the transgender males we have studied over the years. These men wanted to display themselves in sexy ways, wearing provocative female garb. More often than not, while claiming to be a woman in a mans body, they declared themselves to be lesbians (attracted to other women). The photograph of the posed, corseted, breast-boosted Bruce Jenner (a man in his mid-sixties, but flaunting himself as if a pin-up girl in her twenties or thirties) on the cover of Vanity Fair suggests that he may fit the behavioral mold that Ray Blanchard has dubbed an expression of autogynephiliafrom gynephilia (attracted to women) and auto (in the form of oneself).
The Emperors New Clothes
But the memethat your sex is a feeling, not a biological fact, and can change at any timemarches on through our society. In a way, its reminiscent of the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Emperors New Clothes. In that tale, the Emperor, believing that he wore an outfit of special beauty imperceptible to the rude or uncultured, paraded naked through his town to the huzzahs of courtiers and citizens anxious about their reputations. Many onlookers to the contemporary transgender parade, knowing that a disfavored opinion is worse than bad taste today, similarly fear to identify it as a misapprehension.
I am ever trying to be the boy among the bystanders who points to whats real. I do so not only because truth matters, but also because overlooked amid the hooplaenhanced now by Bruce Jenners celebrity and Annie Leibovitzs photographystand many victims. Think, for example, of the parents whom no onenot doctors, schools, nor even churcheswill help to rescue their children from these strange notions of being transgendered and the problematic lives these notions herald. These youngsters now far outnumber the Bruce Jenner type of transgender. Although they may be encouraged by his public reception, these children generally come to their ideas about their sex not through erotic interests but through a variety of youthful psychosocial conflicts and concerns.
First, though, let us address the basic assumption of the contemporary parade: the idea that exchange of ones 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.
When the tumult and shouting dies, it proves not easy nor wise to live in a counterfeit sexual garb. The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned peopleextending over thirty years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendereddocuments their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to twenty times that of comparable peers.
How to Treat Gender Dysphoria
So how should we make sense of this matter today? As with any mental phenomenon, whats crucial is noting its fundamental characteristic and then identifying the many ways in which that characteristic can manifest itself.
The central issue with all transgender subjects is one of assumptionthe assumption that ones sexual nature is misaligned with ones biological sex. This problematic assumption comes about in several different ways, and these distinctions in its generation determine how to manage and treat it.
Based on the photographic evidence one might guess Bruce Jenner falls into the group of men who come to their disordered assumption through being sexually aroused by the image of themselves as women. He could have been treated for this misaligned arousal with psychotherapy and medication. Instead, he found his way to surgeons who worked him over as he wished. Others have already commented on his stereotypic caricature of women as decorative babes (I look forward to wearing nail polish until it chips off, he said to Diane Sawyer)a view that understandably infuriates feministsand his odd sense that only feelings, not facts, matter here.
For his sake, however, I do hope that he receives regular, attentive follow-up care, as his psychological serenity in the future is doubtful. Future men with similar feelings and intentions should be treated for those feelings rather than being encouraged to undergo bodily changes. Group therapies are now available for them.
Most young boys and girls who come seeking sex-reassignment are utterly different from Jenner. They have no erotic interest driving their quest. Rather, they come with psychosocial issuesconflicts over the prospects, expectations, and roles that they sense are attached to their given sexand presume that sex-reassignment will ease or resolve them.
The grim fact is that most of these youngsters do not find therapists willing to assess and guide them in ways that permit them to work out their conflicts and correct their assumptions. Rather, they and their families find only gender counselors who encourage them in their sexual misassumptions.
Those with Gender Dysphoria Need Evidence-Based Care
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 Americas 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.
What is needed now is public clamor for coherent sciencebiological and therapeutic scienceexamining the real effects of these efforts to support transgendering. Although much is made of a rare intersex individual, no evidence supports the claim that people such as Bruce Jenner have a biological source for their transgender assumptions. Plenty of evidence demonstrates that with him and most others, transgendering is a psychological rather than a biological matter.
In fact, gender dysphoriathe official psychiatric term for feeling oneself to be of the opposite sexbelongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder. Its treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery and hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction. The treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it. With youngsters, this is best done in family therapy.
The larger issue is the meme itself. The idea that ones 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.
But gird your loins if you would confront this matter. Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.
Paul McHugh, MD, is University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the author of The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry.
I love listening to podcasts.
This episode of Radiolab is about some guy who bounces back and forth between feeling female and feeling male. As in, in mid conversation. Weird, to say the least. Radiolab Presents: Invisibilia - Radiolab
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Since my first reaction was "I'd hit it"... I'm hoping for female, but I'd settle for "currently female", or perhaps even "currently identifying as female".
Since my first reaction was "I'd hit it"... I'm hoping for female, but I'd settle for "currently female", or perhaps even "currently identifying as female".
I will admit that I've found myself in precisely this scenario in the past. Not with that particular one, mind you, but just generally. My taste in women is... diverse.
Anyway, I came across this picture recently while doing research for an "I'm offended" post:
Someone, some male person with a functioning dick, said to themselves "Yeah, I'll tap that."
20 years old, unmarried, and has already popped out six kids. Why? "I love babies"
No surprise that she can't actually afford to care for all those kids, and has a GoFundMe page set up.
Does anyone remember back when GoFundMe was for **** like charities, paying for cancer treatment for little girls, and making potato salad? Not for the scum of humanity to support their breeding habit...
Actually, I did find one GoFundMe project that make sense to me. See if you can guess based on the following image.
This lovely specimen, who identifiers herself only as "Bailey" and is, in her own words "currently unemployed, completely broke, in debt, and in no position to hold down a job," is crowd-funding her abortion. Props to you, Bailey, for correctly identifying that you are not fit to be a mother.
Pro tip: If you choose to jump out of your own drive-thru window to attack a customer, don't claim that they pulled you out if there happens to be a security camera pointed directly at you.
This is why I strongly maintain that, as Orwellian as it sounds, breeding needs to be regulated by the Fed.
I don't understand why eugenics is such a bad word in this country...
The headline isn't exaggerating. It's not hyperbole. These three geniuses literally got themselves stranded in open water and had to be rescued by passing fishermen because they went tubing on a river and genuinely believed that it ran in a circle and would bring them back to where they started.
A river. A body of water with a free-flowing current. They thought that it magically ran in a circle, defying all laws of physics and hydrodynamics.
The headline isn't exaggerating. It's not hyperbole. These three geniuses literally got themselves stranded in open water and had to be rescued by passing fishermen because they went tubing on a river and genuinely believed that it ran in a circle and would bring them back to where they started.
A river. A body of water with a free-flowing current. They thought that it magically ran in a circle, defying all laws of physics and hydrodynamics.
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