Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Sorry, but your kid's probably not really transgendered ...

Having a kid that claims to be trans is the new sign of status. Woke parents are weirdly proud to proclaim publicly that their little Johnny is now a Jessica, and their Suzy is a Sam.
 
Or when one parent said their preteen was still working their way through something called the “gender spectrum” to decide for themselves what they want to be.  And, of course, what pronouns they will insist on.  For now.
 
So by all means stay tuned while we wait for this breathtaking moment in history.  What will these children with their vast life experience at 6, 10, or 12 choose to be for the rest of their lives?  (Or until they change their mind.)  Will they pick new, liberating names to celebrate their transition?  Or a gender-neutral name like Spider or Mango or Buttercup? 
 
And will he or she become a ze? Or a zie? Or a wa/waz or a fae/faeie? Or whatever? Because, you know, you can’t use the boring old he/she they/them stuff – not if you want to feign outrage when someone meets you for the first time and doesn’t know your pronouns. 
 
The bigger problem is that kid’s probably not transgendered at all.  Certainly not in any biological sense.  Confused, perhaps. Socially awkward, most likely, Desperate for attention, sure.
 
But not really somewhere in between or beyond male or female.  At times a child may feel they are; at other times they may also feel like a an Indian princess, or a Viking, or a dinosaur, for that matter. It’s all make-believe and usually temporary. However, their biological sex hasn’t changed from the time they were born. Nor will it any time soon.  That’s a matter of chromosomes.
 
And as of now, no one can change their chromosomes on demand for whatever reason that make them male or female. That’s the real science.
 
Still, what about gender?  
 
A lot’s been made in recent years that gender has nothing to do with biological sex.  Now gender is supposed to be a fluid thing; it depends solely how someone “feels.” As if gender is just a matter of what clothes and makeup you prefer.  You can change it any time you like. 
 
Redefining gender – and especially coming up with terms like transgender – is another in a long line of sad attempts to change the meaning of a perfectly good word that accurately describes a real thing into something now completely meaningless. Something that can be exploited, too. 
 
Because it’s usually done for profit and power. As this is. 
 
There have always been effeminate boys and masculine girls.  There have always been others who aren’t necessarily more effeminate than other boys, or more masculine than other girls, but are sexually attracted to others of the same sex. Still others are sexually attracted to both sexes.  Those things are real.  It’s not a question of gender but according to a lot of real, objective science, those sexual preferences may result from chromosomes, as well.
 
Because some things are predetermined in some way at the chromosome level, it’s not a matter of choice. It’s something some folks are already hardwired to be. 
 
None of that has anything to do with the transgender movement.  More importantly, even less to do with gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy now being pushed on children by adults.  I don’t care much what other adults do to themselves, but I do have a problem when adults are making irreversible life-altering decisions for kids. 
 
I think most normal people feel the same.  Why is it suddenly okay – and actually celebrated – to intentionally and permanently surgically disfigure a child, or pump them full of hormones causing long-term physical changes?  All because some activist wannabe school psychologist or teacher thinks your child suffers from something called gender dysphoria.
 
And why is it so prevalent?  Remarkable, isn’t it?  
 
You have to wonder who profits from our society’s new-found obsession with finding, treating, and “protecting the rights” of the suddenly transgendered. Especially children.    
 
I think it’s all so psychologists and pseudo scientists in academia and healthcare can publish papers and books about it and invent profitable “treatments.” So newly-minted “experts” can get lucrative positions and speaking engagements. So “researchers” can tap new sources for grant money to “study.” And to provide an infinitely small number of people a way to claim to have their own interpretation which makes them extra special victims, and worthy of disproportionate power.
 
Honestly, it’s largely a scam. 
 
I have no doubt some people do in fact have mental issues that make them believe they are a sex other than that they were born with.  Just as some people believe they are getting messages from aliens or instructions from God to kill their landlord. It’s a mental illness, not a “condition.”  
 
And last I checked, in the USA we don’t normally treat mental illness with surgery anymore. Therapy and medicine have taken the place of lobotomies and other invasive treatments.   
 
Furthermore, these days we’re talking mostly about children who aren’t really capable of making informed decisions about something as serious and life altering as gender reassignment surgery.  Dressing up and pretending to be something other than what you are is something many kids do before they reach puberty. And even after.  I understand that. 
 
But after then? WTF is wrong with these parents? 
 
Folks, we are allowing parents to let others unnecessarily mutilate and mentally and physically poison their children. Hospitals and doctors are getting rich. Trans activists in schools are acting like feeder channels to deliver kids to this carnage.  And gloating. 
 
And instead of being arrested, parents, the activists in schools, and the participating members of the medical establishment are all being praised for being on the cutting edge – literally – of a revolution in helping children develop. 
 
It’s insane. There’s no other word for it.