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.