by Don Boys, Ph.D.
To preempt the quick response from the LGBTQ crowd and others, I am not referring to people who are born with biological abnormality such as hermaphrodites who are born with malformed, sexually ambiguous genitalia, or both male and female genitalia. Such people, currently known as intersex individuals, have always existed and they were regarded by the Athenians and the Romans as monsters, and thrown into the sea at Athens and into the Tiber River at Rome. Such people deserve our compassion and understanding.
Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex indicated on their birth certificate.
We have seen in recent years an avalanche of gender confusion even to the extent of pumping sex- changing hormones into children and chopping off good working body parts because a male thinks he has a female inside him. Or vice versa. A young boy dressing as a girl or a girl wanting to play with trucks or toy guns is not indicative of gender confusion.
Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic tracked children with transgender feelings but who had no medical or surgical treatment and they discovered that 70% to 80% spontaneously lost those feelings! So it would appear that to inject such children with hormones or chop off their body parts is a combination of child abuse, medical malfeasance, and criminal behavior. The left likes to assume women have control over their own bodies up to abortion at birth—and yet they seek to impose their will on a minor child without knowing the potential outcome. That’s madness. Or quackery. Or mad quackery.
We have seen this movie before. Now, it features transgenders–people who identify as the opposite gender. The older version tried to convince thinking people that homosexuality, i.e. perversion, is normalcy! Then came same-sex “marriage.” On the progressive’s to-do list is incest, pedophilia, and polygamy.
There was elation in academia, the entertainment industry, and the LGBTQ crowd when a headline blared, “Scientists uncover 20 genes linked to being transgender-–supporting claims the condition has a physical basis.” But, alas, the joy was premature. It was similar to the claims over the years that a “gay” gene had been discovered only to be proved premature. It seems many scientists find what they are looking for and if they don’t find it, they call a news conference and make authoritative claims anyway with such hesitation words as “may,” “we think,” “it seems,” etc.
But alas, it was not to be. No “gay” gene has been found. It was always a fake or at least a farce, and sometime a fraud. However, the LGBTQ crowd did an incredible sales job on normal people and shamed them into accepting a lie—that abnormal sex is acceptable, maybe even preferable!