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Now We Have Transgender Visibility Day
I find myself strangely welcoming of this “International Transgender Day of Visibility,” a day dedicated to meditation on the maiming and sterilization of mental patients. This is not an abstract issue for me; there was a lesbian couple in my social circle many years ago who arranged a sperm donor, had a child, and then the child’s mother underwent “the process”. She knew that at the end of that process she would not be a man, merely able to more credibly present as a man. To be man-like. Which she felt was a more perfect reflection of her being and would provide their child with a father and a mother. Something closer to normalcy than lesbian parents could offer. This whole chain of events was a plan that they shared at the outset and executed patiently over some years. She weened her child and began the transition.
I have long since lost contact with them. When I think of them I pray for them. The statistics are hard. More than 40% of transgender people have attempted suicide, versus 4.6% of the general US population. Their life-expectancy is reduced by decades following a surgical transition and their medical issues are multiplied.
Ethics have been entirely suspended in the case of US transgender medical procedures. Our medical community has discarded the Hippocratic Oath entirely and sought to maim and sterilize patients’ bodies to pander to a psychological condition and make a bigger bit of change out of it.
I welcome the International Transgender Day of Visibility wholeheartedly. This predation by our medical and political communities should be more widely exposed and discussed. The day selected for this event is Easter Sunday. Life Site News has a piece on that angle that I cannot improve upon.
Today is Maundy Thursday. The sacrament of the Eucharist instituted, and the betrayal by Judas perpetrated. I will point out that Jesus died for all of us, and ask His mercy for all of us. May He lead us to better days, in this world and the next.
Published in Healthcare
This issue throws into stark relief the difference between “trusting your doctor” and “trusting doctors”.
Anything to be of help.
Epic article.
My niece is gender-confused and “transitioning” at college. My brother was in favor of transgenderism until his daughter actually started down that path once she turned 18. Now he is shedding a lot of tears about it. I wish he had remembered the values that our parents raised us with before it started affecting his kids.
I am so sorry. Lord help them. Please.
I’m just wondering what is visible on visibility day.
Or is pride already taken so transsexuals only have visibility left?
It gets so difficult to take pride in being different when everyone is being different, the same.
I got it. Transsexuals are so meek and mild they naturally blend into the background, and on this day they step forward and show off the cut of their jib.
If they don’t wear visibility vests, they aren’t trying hard enough to be visible. Thus they aren’t fully committed to the concept!
I hope this doesn’t mean they’re gonna show us their scars and gashes.
Day of Visibility is presumably to preserve the letter “V,” as the day (March 28) was previously known as “Transgender Day of Vengeance ” to celebrate the use of violence to effect their agenda, and particularly the person who massacred the children and adults at Covenant School in Nashville (transgenders’ PR statements to the contrary notwithstanding).
https://www.newsweek.com/trans-day-vengeance-date-details-activists-choose-fight-1791451
Some of them are all too visible as is. “Say, ‘Gwendolyn’ … who applied your impasto makeup? Frank Auerbach? What size trowel did he use?”
They’ve already cut off their jibs.
Trimming their sails.
Thanks, now I get comment #2!
Don’t these Trans folks have to earn a living? When do they have the time to think of all this stuff?
Even working people have so much more spare time these days.
It’s not so long since female genital mutilation was considered barbaric. But “gender affirming care” does sound nice and cuddly.
Also “top surgery” and “bottom surgery”…
And then there was Biden’s profane proclamation of the Transgender Day of Visibility arm in arm with banning those terribly offensive symbols of a religion he is reportedly a devout member of.
Jesus died for him, too.
As far as I’m concerned every person (including President Biden) who pushes the “transgender” nonsense is a child abuser.