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The Transgender ‘Ministry’ Is on a Roll
The propaganda on transgenderism is ubiquitous and alarming. And it keeps getting worse. The latest story I discovered took place in Canada:
Last month, Justice Gregory Bowden of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ruled that a 14-year-old girl may begin receiving testosterone injections without parental consent. Bowden’s ruling, hailed as a ‘massive legal win’ by the American LGBTQNation, ensured treatment would proceed without parental influence by declaring that if either of the girl’s parents refer to their daughter as a girl, they will be considered guilty of family violence under the Canadian Family Law Act.
You read that correctly. If you try to influence your child, never mind forbid him or her to pursue transgender therapy, you will be guilty of child abuse.
One tragedy of this case is that the mother of the female child is supporting this procedure and the father is desperately trying to stop it:
[These injections] will completely disrupt her puberty … Her bones will stop growing, her brain will stop developing … and she’s not gonna be a boy. She won’t even have the bone-strength left to be a girl anymore.
The father has filed to appeal but at this writing, no appeal date has been set.
The doctor who is behind this child’s conversion is named Dr. Wallace Wong. Serious questions have been raised about his practice, which he calls a “Ministry.” He began his practice in 2010 and has treated more than 500 kids, and he expects the demands for his services to grow. Here is how he explained to a questioner at a presentation the guidance he gives to parents:
Although the questioner had not indicated any particular urgency, Wong explained that parents should exaggerate the severity of their child’s condition to their local health offices.
Wong said a suicide threat was an effective means of accomplishing this goal. While Wong framed the matter as the government’s fault and explained to his audience that it is ‘up to us as advocates’ to change the situation, his message could not have been lost on anyone present.
He also explained that his youngest patient was three years old.
Worse, in the case of the 14-year-old girl, Dr. Wong as a psychologist apparently made no effort to help her feel comfortable in her female body but only counseled her on changing her gender. Another doctor, Dr. Brendan Hursh, supported the child’s mother, testifying that they believed that the girl’s suicide attempt was due to her gender dysphoria. No doctors with contrary views were brought in to testify.
For those who insist that transgender practices are necessary to relieve suffering, they are contradicted by other experts:
Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter of Atlanta, Georgia, told the court it was sheer conjecture, noting in an affidavit that while, in the short run, patients do experience ‘a post-treatment period of relative happiness,’ available evidence indicates that for most people, happiness dissipates and is replaced, within a few years, with ‘life-long psychological trauma and increased suicide.’
So many elements of this story are a violation of human norms and rights: children can make life-changing decisions that will change their lives forever without parental consent; parents who intervene will be accused of child abuse; progressive judges will rule in terms of their own political biases, rather than seeking facts; human sexuality will be further distorted and contested by those who are determined to destroy Western culture; the lives of children will be damaged and emotionally conflicted for years as they buy into or struggle with these destructive agendas.
At some point, we may all bear witness to this version of the religion of the Left. Dr. Wong will likely be more than willing to share his “ministry” with us.
For a transcript of Dr. Wong’s presentation, go here.
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I’ve written on transgenderism a number of times. I can’t help myself. The damage that is done to children and their relationships with their parents is heartrending. And it’s done at the hands of ambitious shysters and an arrogant judiciary.
Today I have to go with my 15 1/2 year old grandson to the physical therapist for some work on his shoulder. Even though the PT office is across the street from the high school he attends (therefore he doesn’t need a ride), he must have an adult check him in and stay in the office for the duration of the session. Why are these rules not applied to things like transgenderism and abortion? How can these decisions be taken out of the hands of parents? Who are these idiotic judges that encourage the quackery?
In education one of the main complaints from teachers is that the ‘parents are not involved.’ Except when someone else decides that the parents have no business interfering in what someone else wants for their child. This is crazy town and the children are the ones who suffer.
The LGBTQ movement is a travesty for mental wellness and a menace to society…because as usual with progressives, it is never enough – there is no stopping point.
I couldn’t agree with you more, @juliana! I keep saying, this can’t be happening, but it is, and it’s getting worse all the time.
This is the fad that most worries me in regard to my nieces and nephews. It’s an example of the Big Lie in action. Whomever can be made to treat a man as a woman can be made to believe anything. And with ever more laws, policies, and norms enforcing the lie, expressing obvious truths requires ever more courage and sacrifice.
We are nearing the end of the slippery slope. It’s not coincidence that so many Americans no longer pretend to support freedom of speech. With power, they don’t need to.
I feel sorry for the parents of anorexic girls. I guess it will be illegal to get them assistance to deal with their body dysphoria.
I am so glad Susan, that I am an old woman, with my children grown, grandchildren also grown, one small great grandchild left and his mother has enough sense to home school him.
I am envious. My battle has only just begun.
Which is why we should require parental consent by both parents for weird stuff like this (Yes, I know there are a lot of single parents, so it only takes one in that case.).
I agree with your assessment of the tragedy. A mother should be the one parent who wants her child to have every chance to grow up normally. However, I’m willing to bet Mommy is a flaming liberal who’s bought into this “gender fluidity” crap hook, line, and “stinker” . . .
Ah, but if anyone is up to it, you are, Stina!
Munchausen by proxy enabled by the attention gaining “quirk” being socially acceptable.
They are as emotionally stable as 12 year old girls following the herd.
Disgusting.
Someone told me that there was a TED Talk recently that tried to sell Pedophilia as being a sexual preference that should be considered as not criminal. I posted on this forum a few months ago that pedophilia would be OK within 5 years. I may have given our culture too much credit.
I had to change clothing in the locker room at my gym last evening with a “woman” standing right behind me. At least I think he/she/it was a woman. What a mess.
To say nothing of the enormous amount of psychologically damaged people who will need treatment in ten years when they realize that their lives have been destroyed by some passing fad.
Dr Wong’s office is a suicide mill.
I’ve said many times that I’m glad I’m old.
Isn’t this nuts, Kay, that we count ourselves lucky because we are not having to raise children right now?
My parents were so grateful to raise us two girls at a time when there was an abundance of food on the table, a prosperous economy, and the idea that the good times would keep on a-coming.
My heart goes out to teachers inside any liberal areas, where they are being judged and possibly pink slipped if they are not enthusiastically taking valuable classroom time and spending it prepping young students about all the various in’s and out’s of transgenderism.
Then the experts wonder why American children trail behind children from other nations, coming in 38th in math abilities.
In medical research, you need the consent of a parent or guardian to apply any non-urgent treatment to a minor. Only in the case in the case of immediate life-saving treatment can this be waived, and only after consulting with two other doctors who agree with the course of treatment. Breaking informed consent will get you fired, your grant terminated, probably lose your license.
Why is this different?
On the bright side, we can look forward to the eventual Muslim takeover with greater equanimity.
Or better yet, let’s choose no takeover!!!
It isn’t not having to raise kids right now that makes me happy. It’s not having to live under the government that’s coming.
The new popularity of transgender medical procedures scares me. I worry that people will make this decision while too young and impressionable or that parent’s seeking lot’s of attention will jump on this trend regardless of their child’s best interest. Anyone outside the family (Doctor, counselor, lawyer or psychologists) should not be involved with the decision making of children.
What is deeply distressing to me, @sweezle, is that I think parents who approve this are more concerned about themselves (how others see them) than they are with the wellbeing of the child. It is outrageously narcissistic and self-serving. And many of these children will suffer.
This is an astonishing trend. How can a parent be a partner in the mutilation of their own child? And how can a parent willingly assist their teenager to be even more mixed up? Do any of you know a teen who doesn’t change their preferences for so many things over and over while they are moving through this growth period? I’m just so sad for the children who have parents that are this clueless.
See my comment #21, @cowgirl. I keep hoping I will wake up from a bad dream . . .
One more development that makes me glad I decided not to have children.
Susan:
Your example is from Canada, but I expect the same thing in our more radical Leftist states like California, New York, and Hawaii.
To me, this seems the logical next milestone on a slippery slope going back to at least the 1960s:
Two issues came to the forefront almost immediately after Obergefell — the trans issue (including the bathroom question), and laws prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals (like the bake-the-cake case).
I’ve personally been opposed to all of this for as long as I can remember, except the repeal of sodomy laws, which I favored (meaning that I favored the repeal as a policy matter), though I disagreed that this result was mandated by the Constitution as SCOTUS ruled in Lawrence.
Social conservatives have been arguing that all of these developments will lead to problems, for over 50 years. I think that they (and I) have been correct about this.
Brave New World, indeed.
In the end, all the factions of Identity Politics have to battle it out. Currently you have the TERFs v. Trans. (TERF=trans-exclusionary radical feminist). The TERFs worry that feminist wins (eg, title 9 scholarships) will be undone by men claiming to be women. After all, if “woman” can be anybody or nobody, then women’s rights becomes meaningless. Pay equality, gender discrimination, glass ceiling, all become meaningless in the trans era.
I think the next battle will between members of LGBTQ2+. That is not a natural constituency and I expect to see a breakup in the next 10 years. The letters are about in order of population and the T’s really depend on the LGB’s to have political energy. The LGB’s have won all their political battles, so they will fight on other issues that they don’t have in common. The males will worry about repressive government and the females will fight about socialized medicine and the T’s will be left to fight over co-ed bathrooms that nobody else really wants.
@dong, it makes me want to live in a cave in the Himalayas. And I hate the cold.
It will be interesting to watch what happens, who wins and who loses. My only fear is that the larger culture, we, will lose.
At least our children can list all thirty-one genders . . .
Here’s an article from the Federalist that explains how protests by parents in Boulder, CO are falling on deaf ears.
Hopefully the endgame of Identity Politics is a few pockets of victim-hood and the other 99% of us agree to just get along (to paraphrase Rodney King).