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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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From your lips to G-d’s ears. And I only use that term for special occasions!
My grandchildren are not yet school age and the closer they get to that age the more my concern is elevated. I really want to believe that this is a “fad” like the Tulip mania 350 years ago. (Ok, poor analogy as no one suffered any real harm). Maybe the McMartin Preschool hysteria is closer. People were harmed, but it was not a long lasting hysteria. (Ok, not a good one either as nothing in the culture had to be changed as a result). I should just drop the analogy thing. Maybe we really are just Slouching Towards Gomorrahand and going to hell
in ahandbasketon the bullet train. I think like most people I’m finding it hard to wrap my mind around all of this.Wow, this was an incoherent reply. Sorry.
You don’t need to apologize, @buckpasser. I think your reply reflects the dismay and helplessness we all feel. I know I certainly identify with what you are saying. Thank you.
@buckpasser, Maybe you could take on the “home schooling” duties. Look into “Hooked on Phonics,” to start. My daughter home schooled her boys and one of them took the SAT at 15 and ACED it. Where as a school day is 7 or 8 hours, the same amount of progress in home school can be done in about 3 hours. If your children are working, and you or spouse aren’t, you might enjoy the challenge.
Agreed. And after reading the article you referenced (below) in the Federalist there is no reason to believe that parents in the public school system stand a chance.
Starting in Kindergarten? Superior CO ? Gender Indoctrination for 6 year olds? This seems several steps too far.
When are we going to start seeing protests and demonstrations against this stuff? I would go and carry a sign. To the barricades!
I’ve called for marches and protests, but I can’t blame others for not doing it: I’m not out there either. I don’t even know if Conservatives would participate if someone organized it, although the March for Life is successful. I don’t know what it would take to light a fire under people, @secondbite. Any thoughts about the possibility?
Have you read the story of the “First Non-Binary” person in America? It’s an eye-opener. He has now taken back his male birth sex, but he has health issues from all the weird hormones, plus this guy is just mentally messed up, which is what should have been treated in the first place. But everyone is so eager to jump on this bandwagon and be”in the club,” including medical professionals who should know better.
The feminists reject trans women because in their newfound womanhood they love to wear wigs, makeup, and dresses, but the feminists call that “conforming to the patriarchy” or something. (“But I don’t wanna look like a man!”) Anyway here is one article about the First Non-Binary American, former darling of the LGBTQ community but now shunned by them because he’s telling the truth:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/
This is the part that has me the angriest about all of it.
Before doing something so physically permanent, shouldn’t you, like, make sure something else isn’t screwing with it or complicating it? After all else is dealt with, if the GD still exists, then fine – treat it.
But how many of these people have underlying problems and traumas that GD is a mask for? Not that they don’t truly feel it, but the difficulties with their identity is borne out of a discomfort rooted in something that needs to be dealt with?
I know one guy who has struggled his whole life with his identity – he wanted to be his “super-star” brother (he called him golden boy). He was jealous and thought his parents loved the other more. After over 25 years of nursing that bitterness, anger, and resentfulness that he never deals with and a history of drug abuse, he is suddenly trans-gender.
I don’t buy it. And it doesn’t take much talking to him to know he has some serious issues with drug abuse, honesty, and brother/father issues in spades. You’d think a professional would tackle that first?
Oh… and that 1 year waiting period before transitioning is total BS.
Tommy Smothers?
I think TS better adjusted.
I sent the URL to my sister and cousin. My sister thinks all this transgender thing is bunk, but my cousin, who has a PHD in psychology has bought into the scam. Wrote us a long letter telling us how wrong we are.
Oh dear. I’m very disturbed at the way psychology has been commandeered by PC.
Fortunately my cousin is retired, and no longer sees patients.
In my in box this morning from my cousin the PhD:
“Exactly why I don’t DO blogs!! Any idiot (or totally insane person) can say anything s/he wants! This guy is a nutcase … then and now. A lot of transgender people have identity problems … which is why the screening HAS to be thorough. That does not mean that most gay men and lesbian women don’t know who they are … and at a very young age. Your sources are always so bogus, Kay!”
In this particular case, we’re talking about gay people who refuse to admit they are gay: “I’m a woman trapped in a man’s body!”
Gay men tend to stay that way; but not so lesbians. It always cracks me up when a Hollywood actress comes out as gay. The next thing you hear, she’s shacking up with a guy (e.g., James Tepper, Johnny Depp).
Evolutionary biologists believe male homosexuality involves what they call “sexually antagonistic selection”. Female homosexuality is probably a backup system.
Psychology got commandeered by PC decades ago. Hence, you need to be very careful when selecting a therapist.
Especially when dealing with children and teens (who are naturally going through transitions related to who they are), and doubly triply especially now that “transgender” has become the “cool” thing to claim.
In a few years we are going to be dealing with a lot of psychological damage currently being imposed on people.
Yes, and a lot of poor souls whose bodies and faces will never be right due to irreversible hormone treatments and puberty blockers.
Evil is powerful. Evil is progressive.