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[See, also, the Transgenderism section on  this page .]

FYI: Transgenderism (a.k.a. Transexualism) is neither Intersexualism or Hermaphrodism.

Sex Change’ Is NOT Surgically Possible, Sex Change Surgeon Testifies in Court

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/21/sex-change-isnt-surgically-possible-my-surgeon-testified-in-court/

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No third type of sex cell exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex ‘spectrum’ or additional sexes beyond male and female…  Sex is binary…  [T]he existence of only two sexes does not mean sex is never ambiguous.  But intersex individuals are extremely rare [less than 1/10th of 1% of the population], and they are neither a third sex nor proof that sex is a ‘spectrum’ or a ‘social construct.’
Colin Wright, Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
Emma Hilton, Ph.D. Developmental Biology

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/biologists-wsj-only-two-sexes-male-and-female-there-no-sex-spectrum

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Science Says There Are Only Two Genders, No Gender ‘Spectrum

https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/science-says-there-are-only-two-genders-no-gender-spectrum/

FairyTaleThings

[ASND thanks Wintery Knight for that image.]

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“‘[G]ender identity‘ is a psychological phenomenon, not an immutable [biological] characteristic, and not found anywhere in the body, brain, or DNA.  There is no medical test that can detect [‘gender identity’].  Because twin studies show the infrequency of both genetically identical twins’ suffering gender dysphoria, the condition clearly is not genetic…  To the contrary, every cell of a male’s brain [and every other cell in his body] has a Y chromosome and every cell of a female’s brain [and body] has two X chromosomes, which is true regardless of whether the individual ‘feels like’ the opposite sex…  From a purely scientific standpoint, human beings possess a biologically determined sex and innate sex differences.  No [trans-affirming] sexologist could actually change a person’s genes through hormones and surgery.  Sex change is objectively impossible…  Any ‘evidence‘ of an innate gender identity is utterly fictitious…  [Trans-affirming s]exologists’ solution [to this intractable biological problem] was to hijack the word ‘gender‘ and infuse it with a [completely artificial] meaning…  [T]here is much unrefuted evidence that various psychological and environmental [rather than biological] factors are determinative [regarding sexual ‘identity’].  Not only can the feeling change, research shows that it does so in a great majority of cases (at least for child patients)…  Data on the persistence rate of adult patients [are] unreliable, primarily because so many patients are lost to follow up.  But many of those patients are increasingly seeking medical help to reverse the procedures.  There is no evidence that so-called gender-affirming treatment (GAT) has any positive effect on the long-term psychological well-being of individuals who suffer gender dysphoria…  Transgender orthodoxy (or ideology or theology) has thus seized Western society with absolutely no basis in [scientific] fact…  Perhaps most seriously, it has bulldozed the ancient, fundamental rights of parents to protect and guide their children…  If [parents] refuse to consent to [hormonal and/or surgical mutilation which] they know will harm their child, the government may strip them of custody.  When the medical and governmental establishment excludes the natural protector of a child — the person who knows and loves him more than anyone else on earth — from decisions that can literally ruin the child’s life, civilization itself is undermined [and totalitarianism reigns].”

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/07/54272/

[The many assertions made in that excerpt from the original essay are properly referenced in the original to published historical, legal and peer-reviewed medical sources, as are all the assertions made in the dozens of similar citations offered below on this page.]

MentalIllness

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Therapists Treat Dysphoria As A Trauma Symptom, Until It’s About Sex

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/17/therapists-treat-dysphoria-as-a-trauma-symptom-until-its-about-sex/

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[W]e psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of [so-called transgenders’] mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.  We have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/11/surgical-sex

NoSuchThing

[ASND thanks Wintery Knight for that image.]

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Dr. Quentin Van Meter: How Faulty Research by a 1950s ‘Sexual Revolutionist’ Guided the Modern Transgender Movement

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/24/dr-quentin-van-meter-transgenderism-invented-1950s-johns-hopkins-lab/

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“History is replete with medical scandals.  Frontal lobotomies to treat mental illness. Forced sterilization to control ‘undesirable‘ populations.  The infamous Tuskegee Experiment.  Indefensible, unethical medical procedures were performed for years.
With transgenderism, history is repeating itself.
Puberty-blocking drugs are offered at age 9.  Girls as young as 12 are injected with testosterone.  Teen boys are treated with feminizing hormones.
Not a single long-term study supports such risky medical interventions.  These hormonal treatments on children are experimental.  The medical literature on the health effects of hormonal interventions ‘in the pediatric/adolescent population is completely lacking.’  The drugs used are based on low-quality evidence, or no evidence at all.
Minor children may be treated surgically.  Girls may have their breasts removed at age 13 and their uterus at 16.  Teen boys may have their penis and testes removed shortly after their 16th birthday.
No one knows the full extent of the medical or psychological impact of these life-altering surgeries.  The only long-term follow-up study found substantially higher rates of overall mortality, suicide, suicide attempts, and psychiatric hospitalizations among adults who surgically transitioned.  We simply don’t know the future outcomes for children.
There is no test or scientific proof for a ‘gender identity.’  A child’s ‘gender identity‘ is based on feelings that are impossible to prove and subject to change.”

https://www.kelseycoalition.org/

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Physical Interventions on the Bodies of Children to “Affirm” their “Gender Identity” Violate Sound Medical Ethics and Should be Prohibited

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/12/58839/

[All of the assertions made above are factually referenced on the cited pages.]

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Natal [biological] girls [pretending to ‘identify‘ as boys who are using puberty-suppressing drugs] show… a significant increase in behavioural and emotional problems, according to their parents…  One dimension of the Health Related Quality of Life scale, completed by parents [of ‘transgender’ children], ‘showed a significant decrease in Physical well-being of their child‘.  What is most disturbing is that ‘a significant increase was found in the first item “I deliberately try to hurt or kill self“… In addition to the troubling absence of research proving that hormone-blockers are safe and efficacious, another reason their use is controversial is that the best research to date suggests that upwards of 80% of gender-dysphoric children will outgrow their gender dysphoria and come to accept their biological sex (i.e., ‘desist’), unless they socially and chemically ‘transition.’  Social and chemical ‘transitioning’ reduces desistance rates to almost zero…  Two years ago, Kaiser Health News reported on the then over-10,000 ‘adverse events reports filed with the FDA‘ on Lupron [the chief puberty-suppression drug prescribed to children] prescribed for pediatric conditions.  Physicians report seeing osteopenia (bone thinning) and degenerative disc disease — conditions found in the elderly — in young women who were prescribed Lupron as children for precocious puberty or merely to grow taller.

https://salvomag.com/post/trans-child-abuse

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FDA: Thousands of Deaths Linked to Puberty Blockers

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/02/fda-thousands-of-deaths-linked-to-puberty-blockers/

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Science Says…

The American Journal of Psychiatry corrects fraudulent 2019 study
Admits transgender surgeries offer no mental health benefits whatsoever

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/health/2020/august/prestigious-psychiatry-journal-retracts-findings-admits-sex-reassignment-surgery-didnt-fix-mental-health

[Dr. Baucham is also cited  (as of this writing) on  three  other  pages  here @ ASND.  You’re welcome.]

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[Transgender] patients have severe psychological problems that don’t go away following surgery…  To say that [gender reassignment] surgery cures psychiatric disturbance is incorrect.  We now have objective evidence that there is no real difference in the [transgenders’] adjustment to life in terms of jobs, educational attainment, marital adjustment and social stability…  We psychiatrists… would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia.’
    In 2004, the UK Guardian reported on more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative transsexuals reviewed at the University of Birmingham.  Not only did the reviewers find ‘no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of [transgenders],’ they found that many of the patients remained ‘severely distressed and even suicidal after the operation.‘  In 2014 the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention reported that 41 percent of transgender adults have tried to take their own lives…
    [T]he transgender movement ultimately seeks not healing for the gender-confused, but the utter undoing of natural, gendered humanity.  To sow gender confusion and then laud the prospects of altering physiology as a fix for what ails the patient is worse than cooperating with a mental illness, although it is indeed that.  It is doubling down on a destructive, evil design on a human being made male or female in God’s image.

https://salvomag.com/article/salvo35/failed-operations

StillNotAWoman

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Scientifically & medically there are only two sexes because our sex — male or female — is determined by our basic capacity to engage in sexually reproductive acts.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/06/19389/

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Contrary to the current fad… a radical sex transformation is impossible.  When an individual is born, that individual has a set of what is medically known as sex chromosomes.  A genetic female has two ‘X’ sex chromosomes, (XX), and a genetic male has one ‘X’ and one ‘Y’ sex chromosome (XY). Interestingly, it is the presence or the absence of the ‘Y’ sex chromosome that determines the gender…  So-called ‘transgenders’ have no way of changing their chromosomal makeup.  Although they can take hormones to change their outward, physical appearance, dress as they wish, use makeup, let their hair grow (or cut it) as they wish, and even undergo gender reassignment surgery, they will still remain chromosomally either XX or XY, depending on the genetic makeup they had when they were born.
Dominic Diorio, MD

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/10/the_facts_about_transgenderism.html

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Sex Reassignment — Whether Hormonal Doping or Surgery — Doesn’t Work.
Here Is the Medical Evidence Which Transgender Activists and Their Left Wing Political Puppets (Both Democrats and Republicans) Refuse To Acknowledge Even Exists Let Alone Read.

https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence

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Gender dysphoria is listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5… [in] the family of psychological disorders that includes anorexia, body dysmorphic disorder, and body integrity identity disorder (BIID).

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/12/transgender-conformity

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“... in its 2013 revised edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders’ (DSM-5) delisted ‘Gender Identity Disorder‘ as a psychiatric ‘disorder,’ reclassifying it as ‘Gender Dysphoria.’  However, rather than providing a scientific validation of the transgender agenda, the APA’s action was a remarkable abrogation of professional responsibility in the interest of political correctness…

Richard B. Corradi, professor of psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/17/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science/

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Why Is Transgender An “Identity” But Anorexia A Disorder?
Normalizing gender dysphoria pushes other mentally ill people further into the shadows.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/27/why-is-transgender-an-identity-but-anorexia-a-disorder/

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The Dangers Of Treating Transgenderism Differently Than Other Dysphoric               Mental Disorders

http://www.dailywire.com/news/19964/dangers-treating-transgenderism-differently-other-frank-camp

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“The burden of proof that gender reassignment surgery [a surgical response to a psychological disorder] is ‘medically necessary’ must rest on those who claim that such surgery is necessary.  The Obama administration’s 2016 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Decision Memo strongly suggest[ed] that the evidence is lacking to make this assertion [that such surgery is ever medically necessary].”

http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF17L29.pdf

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[Trangender] Activists have branded gender fluidity as normative and detached from biological sex.  Credulous establishment figures have bought into this narrative, which is now firmly ensconced in our educational, medical, social service and legal institutions.  The reality is, however, that there is no credible evidence that the affirmative approach [i.e. gender reassignment surgery] is effective or safe, a key construct in accepting interventions in medical practice today; nor is there a scientific marker for a ‘true’ trans or for a desistor.

Susan Bradley, M.D., child psychiatrist, founder of the Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental health, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/cbc-self-censorship-part-frightening-gender-identity-trend/

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Peer Reviewed Study: Scientific proof a man can never become a woman [& vice versa]

http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/study-more-proof-a-man-can-never-become-a-woman/print/

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Strength Of Biological Male Athletes “Transitioning” To Female Is ‘Only Minimally Reduced’ By Hormone Treatments, Study Finds

https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/11/strength-athletes-transitioning-female-minimally-reduced-study-finds/

WhyDoYouDare

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Women’s Health, Men’s Health: Why Gender Matters
Many common conditions affect women and men differently.

http://www.consumerreports.org/health/how-womens-health-and-mens-health-differ/

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Men and women differ in how the lower parts of their bodies move as a coordinated wholes.  Men also tend to have more fast-twitch muscles than women. According to experts this isn’t something that can change with training…  Men also tend to have larger internal organs… [and] larger lungs and heart result in more oxygen uptake…  As a result, men also tend to have a higher concentration of hemoglobin in their blood than women do…  A biological male is going to have the fundamental structures of a male body.  That’s an inherent advantage in many sports…  If biological males can compete against biological females, it won’t be long, especially in elite sports, before males win all the races and hold all the records.  Women will, in effect, be pushed out of competition because they were born with female bodies.

https://stream.org/transgender-athletes-biological-difference/

[See, also, the “Athletes say” section below.]

KillWomenSports

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2022, NCAA:

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Transgender Politics vs. the [Scientific] Facts of Life

http://www.pearceyreport.com/archives/2013/07/nancy_pearcey_transgender_politics_vs_facts_of_life.php

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Scientists Say There Are More Than 6,500 Genes That Express Differently In Men And Women

http://www.dailywire.com/news/16108/transgender-agenda-fail-scientists-say-there-are-amanda-prestigiacomo

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Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885

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The Only ACTUAL Transgenders Anywhere On Earth
When girls turn — genetically and therefore ACTUALLY — into boys at the age of 12

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4187004/guevedoces-girls-turn-into-boys-salinas/

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Against Homosexual J.J. McCullough:  Why A Compromise On Transgender Politics Would Be Capitulation To Anti-Scientism

http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/16/compromise-transgender-politics-capitulation/

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8 reasons ‘transgenderism’ is politics, not science

http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/10/8-reasons-transgenderism-is-politics-not-science/

TransOrder

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Shocking New Study Suggests Disagreeing With Homosexual, Trans People Not Same As Hating Them

http://babylonbee.com/news/shocking-new-study-suggests-disagreeing-gay-trans-people-not-hating/

[OK, that’s not a real study.  It’s satire.  But satire is written for a reason — at least good satire is.  That reason is to expose a painful truth using homor.  The satire shared on ASND does exactly that.]

[Speaking of satire…]

BarbieKen

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Logic Says…

I Identify as Barack Obama

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/i_identify_as_barack_obama.html

Frisky

[ASND thanks Wintery Knight for that image.]

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The Father of 7 Who Believes He’s a 6-Year-Old Girl

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/53811-the-father-of-7-who-believes-he-s-a-6-year-old-girl?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=

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Transgender Theory Is A War Against Reality

http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/08/trans-theory-is-a-war-against-reality/

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With The ‘Transgender’ Movement, Liberalism Has Finally Descended Into                    Total Madness

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/with-the-transgender-movement-liberalism-has-finally-descended-into-total-madness/

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Contemporary society… has a confused relationship with truth, which led Oxford Dictionaries to select ‘post-truth’ as the Word of the Year 2016.  In the last several years, the West has accepted ideas that are wholly incompatible with the most basic truths about the natural male-and-female sex dichotomy…  The ‘first principle‘ that the transgenderist needs simply is not there, for a woman is not and cannot be a man. So in order to prove the faulty first principle, the transgenderist tries to ‘create‘ it, to make it appear to be true.  The gender ideologue removes all evidence that conflicts with the transgender principle, surgically mutilating her body and pumping it full of testosterone — for her body, being a woman’s body, is not producing ‘enough’ of that hormone naturally.  Even then, the principle’s falsity remains all too evident, so the transgenderist must force others to agree that a woman is a man.  For gender ideology, the truth is a great obstacle that must be attacked and destroyed…  The premise that everyone creates his own truth contains a concealed asterisk, which states: only select ‘truths‘ are to be accepted and respected — only those that validate progressive society’s presupposed first principles…  The truth does not change according to one’s sentiments.  On the other hand, disordered first principles beget disordered reasoning and inevitably lead to disordered conclusions.

Gerard Mundy, professor of philosophy, Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/07/19627/

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Transgenderism and the Loss of Common Sense
It is unscientific, illogical, impractical, and irresponsible

http://canadafreepress.com/article/canadas-bill-c-16-transgenderism-and-the-loss-of-common-sense

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Biology Isn’t Bigotry: Why Sex Matters in the Age of ‘Transexual‘ Gender Identity

http://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/event/biology-isnt-bigotry-why-sex-matters-the-age-gender-identity

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How the Transgender Narrative Perpetuates Discriminatory Stereotypes
A black person who wants to be white is practicing self-hate, and so is a man who wants to be a woman or a woman who wants to be a man.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2018/february/how-transgender-narrative-perpetuates-stereotypes.html

[Yes, that quote was from a black person.]

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7 Troubling Questions About Transgender Theories

https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/trevinwax/2016/05/03/7-questions-transgender-theories/

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Trans craze is ‘endpoint of our culture of narcissism’

http://www.christian.org.uk/news/trans-craze-endpoint-culture-narcissism/

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The Left’s Slippery Slopes on Marriage & Transgenderism

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/the_lefts_slippery_slope.html

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Why ‘Fairness For All’ Legislation Actually Produces More Discrimination

http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/14/fairness-legislation-actually-produces-discrimination/

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Misguided “Fairness for All” Act Would Undermine Religious Liberty

https://stream.org/misguided-fairness-act-undermine-religious-liberty/

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Fairness for All’ is Well Intentioned but Inadequate and Misguided

https://stream.org/fairness-for-all-is-well-intentioned-but-inadequate-and-misguided/

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The Transgender Debate Is About Redefining Reality

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-the-transgender-debate-is-about-redefining-reality

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DoritoGuy

[ASND thanks Wintery Knight for that image.]

Transchildren’s Parents (and their doctors) Say…

How Science-Denying Gender Ideology Harms Children

https://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children

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Parental Rights: A Casualty of the Transgender Revolution

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/02/21122/

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Minnesota Mom Loses Legal Battle Opposing Son’s Male-to-Female Sex Change

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/minnesota-mom-loses-legal-battle-over-transgender-daughters-transition/

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How Conversion Therapy Bans Will Trap Transgender Children

http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/11/conversion-therapy-bans-trojan-horse-ensnaring-transgender-children/

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The DSM-5 says 88% of girls and 98% of boys who are gender-confused grow out of these thoughts after puberty.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/the_transgender_agenda_against_our_children_time_to_push_back.html

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The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism recently published a letter to the editor written by five researchers critical of the Endocrine Society guidelines for “treating” transgender people.

https://world.wng.org/content/rapid_onset_gender_dysphoria_research_vindicated/#transgender

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3 Doctors Discuss Dangers for Trans-Identified Kids

https://stream.org/3-medical-doctors-on-how-kids-with-gender-dysphoria-are-being-harmed/

ItsABoy

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… it appears likely that [Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria] may be a kind of social contagion in which young people – often teen girls – come to believe that they are transgender.  Preliminary research indicates that young people who identify as trans ‘out of the blue‘ may have been influenced by social media sites that valorize being trans.  In addition, researchers have observed a pattern of clusters of friends coming out together.

http://quillette.com/2017/10/06/misunderstanding-new-kind-gender-dysphoria/

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Abigail Shrier is adamant that her book [Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters] has ‘nothing to do with adults who are transgender‘…  Rather, Shrier writes about what she calls a ‘contagion‘ or ‘epidemic‘ of teenage girls who show absolutely zero sign of wanting to be boys as children.  They are highly intelligent, tend to be socially well-to-do and white, and also have higher incidences of anxiety, depression, and other mental problems.  Then, suddenly and after prolonged social media exposure, they announce that they are transgender — and often begin a series of physically disfiguring actions, such as wearing a ‘binder‘ (to hide the appearance of breasts), beginning testosterone, or even undergoing ‘top surgery‘ to remove their breasts altogether.  They become socially accepted, even idolized, on online social channels.  But the problem is that after these girls transition, their mental health seems to worsen, according to their parents.  They are sullen, withdrawn, and angry.  These are the same girls, says Shrier, who in past generations cut themselves, or developed eating disorders.  Shrier also points out in her book that historically, gender dysphoria affected only atiny sliver of the population (roughly .01 percent) and almost exclusively boys.‘  But in the past decade, those percentages have exploded, and the balance has shifted from almost exclusively boys to almost exclusively teenage girls…  In the Introduction to Irreversible Damage, Shrier highlights an American perfect storm that puts victim identification on a pedestal and crushes all debate: ‘This is a story Americans need to hear…  America has become fertile ground for this mass enthusiasm for reasons that have everything to do with our cultural frailty: parents are undermined; experts are over-relied upon; dissenters in science and medicine are intimidated; free speech truckles under renewed attack; government healthcare laws harbor hidden consequences; and an intersectional era has arisen in which the desire to escape a dominant identity encourages individuals to take cover in victim groups.‘  So great has America’s mass hysteria over such victim group status become, that instead of healthy debate over whether or not young girls might be permanently and seriously disfiguring their bodies, instead of at least listening to dissent and examining these issues, the media and academy do their utmost to shut down debate altogether.  Their terror over being labeled homophobic or transphobic outweighs the plight of thousands of suffering young women — who are the real victims of a hysterical PC culture.  This is unhealthy, dangerous, and is potentially prolonging the suffering of real people.

https://salvomag.com/post/silencing-opposition

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How Government Schools Are ‘Programming‘ Children, Imposing Transgender Ideology

https://www.christianpost.com/news/how-schools-are-programming-children-imposing-transgender-ideology-propaganda-expert-216596/

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The Trans Juggernaut Wants Your Kids, And Public Schools Are Just The Beginning

http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/17/trans-juggernaut-wants-kids-public-schools-just-beginning/

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Kids’ [And Parents’] Rights Inside Public Schools Teaching Transgenderism

http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/11/heres-skinny-kids-rights-inside-public-schools-teaching-transgenderism/

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3 Reasons Schools Should Make Their Own Trans Policies

http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/23/3-reasons-schools-make-trans-policies/

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LGBT themes spread in kids’ entertainment

http://christiannewsjournal.com/lgbt-themes-spread-in-kids-entertainment/

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Doctor: Trendiness of Transgenderism Is Driving Teens Toward It

https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/item/25848-doctor-trendiness-of-transgenderism-is-driving-teens-toward-it

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Transgender’ lobby weaponizes children as pawns in the culture war

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/transgender-lobby-weaponizes-children-as-pawns-in-the-culture-war

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Transgender Ideology Harms Children

http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children

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Transgender Children are Harmed by the Very People Who Intend to “Help” Them

https://stream.org/when-transgender-children-are-harmed/

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Transactivism is Hurting Your Children

https://stream.org/transactivism-hurting-children/

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American College of Pediatricians: Gender Ideology Harms Children

https://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children

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Top Pediatrician Says Pushing Transgender Ideology on Kids Is ‘Child Abuse’

http://www.christianpost.com/news/top-pediatrician-transgender-ideology-kids-child-abuse-190747/

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Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice

http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/21/pushing-kids-transgenderism-medical-malpractice/

[BTW, guess who does a lot of that “pushing“…]

What Blame Do Parents Share For The Sudden Emergence Of Trans Kids?
In Many Cases, Much Of It.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/28/blame-parents-share-sudden-emergence-trans-kids/

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Forced Transgender Boy Quickly Returns To Normal After Removal From Mother’s “Care

http://www.order15.com/2016/10/22/forced-transgender-boy-quickly-returns-to-normal-after-removal-from-mothers-care/

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No One Hates Your Transgender Child.  We Hate What You Are Doing to Him

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/07/19/no-one-hates-your-transgender-child-we-hate-what-you-are-doing-to-him/

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Most children who identify as transgender are faking it, says ‘gender clinic’ psychiatrist

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32172/

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Politicizing Pediatrics: How the AAP’s Transgender Guidelines Undermine Trust in Medical Authority

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/03/50118/

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Do 66,000 Pediatricians Really Support the AAP’s Extreme ‘Transgender’ Agenda?

Hardly.

http://americansfortruth.com/2017/04/11/do-66000-pediatricians-really-support-the-aaps-extreme-transgender-agenda/#more-25205

[Yet, despite all of the above, even many doctors now say…]

Doctors Don’t Know Who the Real Trans Kids Are
Yet some of them are pushing the minimum age for irreversible hormone therapy and surgery as low as possible.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/06/19512/

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Doctors Delusional: Transgender Disorder & Really Bad Psychiatry

http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo38/doctors-delusional.php

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Liberals Say…

The growing role of feelings in shaping our “reality

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/01/08/an-emotional-america/

… &

In the liberal transgender paradigm, psychology — rather than biology — dictates ontology

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/19362/

and…

Alt-Left Insanity: Gender Confusion Replaces Pronouns With… Anti-Nouns?

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dan-gainor/2017/07/06/alt-left-insanity-gender-confusion-replaces-pronouns-%E2%80%A6-anti

… &

Why I Don’t Use Female Pronouns For My Transgender Brother

http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/11/dont-use-female-pronouns-transgender-brother/

… &

Why You Shouldn’t Use Transgender Pronouns
You don’t need to be a psychology professor to realize than an attempt to transplant pronouns from the body to the mind is an attempt to destroy our ability to communicate.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/18/shouldnt-use-transgender-pronouns/

.. &

From Agender to Ze: A Glossary for the Gender Identity Revolution1-dot

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/from-agender-to-ze-a-glossary-for-the-gender-identity-revolution

… &

The strange and bubbling caldron of PC and cultural terminology has taken a bizarre new turn with the news that what was once called ‘sex change’ and then ‘gender re-assignment’ surgery is now increasingly being referred to in transgender circles as ‘gender confirmation.’

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/26418-don-t-call-it-sex-change-it-s-now-gender-confirmation

… &

Midwives Can’t Say ‘Pregnant Women’, Must Say ‘Birthing Individuals’ To Avoid             Offending Breastfeeding Trans Dad [a mother pretending (not very well) to be a father]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/29/transphobic-midwives-must-say-birthing-individuals-not-offend-breastfeeding-transgender-dad/

[See, also,  this page .]

and…

Democrats Deeply Divided on Transgender Issues, Pew Survey Finds

https://pjmedia.com/trending/democrats-deeply-divided-transgender-issues-pew-survey-finds/

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The Transgender Community’s Dark and Secret Misogyny

https://stream.org/transgender-communitys-dark-secret-misogyny/

and…

The success of any nation can be predicted by the way it treats its women,’                  President Obama once said.  It’s Cruel To Put Men In Women’s Shelters

http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/29/cruel-put-men-womens-shelters/

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Man Identifies As Woman Just Long Enough To Voice Valid Opinion On Abortion

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-identifies-as-woman-just-long-enough-to-voice-valid-opinion-on-abortion

[Yes, satire again, but also gain, good satire because it accurate portrays the inanity of both transgenderism and feminism (at least previous feminism; see below).]

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Femistists Used to Say…

How 2nd Wave Feminism Sowed the Seeds of Our Modern Transgender Moment

http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/18/radical-feminism-sowed-seeds-transgender-moment/

and…

The notion that biological sex can be willfully separated from gender originated in the arguments of influential radical feminists writing from the 1950s through the 1970s.  The premises of their theories, in turn, have ushered in the new world of transgenderism.

http://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/FP-63.pdf

and…

[Some g]ender feminists often point to a single study, published in 2015, which claimed it isn’t possible to tell apart male and female brains.  But when a group of researchers reanalyzed the underlying data, they found that brains could be correctly identified as female or male with 69% to 77% accuracy.  In another study, published in 2016, researchers used a larger sample in conjunction with higher-resolution neuroimaging and were able to successfully classify a brain by its sex 93% of the time.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-soh-trans-feminism-anti-science-20170210-story.html

[Some feminists, though, have just enough vision to see the obvious (at least with respect to the transgender travesty).  The next section offers several examples.]

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Feminists Now Say… 

‘Canceled’ radical feminists believe women are what they actually are: Females

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/canceled-radical-feminists-and-the-catholic-church-unlikely-allies-believe-women-are-female-31843

and…

Mostly Rich, White Men Are Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology

http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/

and…

Transgender Policies Cause ‘Erasure‘ of Females, ‘Voyeurism,’ ‘Eugenics‘ on Children, Say Women’s Rights Activists

http://www.christianpost.com/news/transgender-policies-cause-erasure-of-females-voyeurism-eugenics-on-children-say-womens-rights-activists-175230/

and…

What Is a Woman?  Feminists Face Off Against Transgenders

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2

and…

Feminists, transgenders clash over ‘hate‘ speech

http://mobile.wnd.com/2018/03/feminists-transgenders-clash-over-hate-speech/

and…

Growing body of peer-reviewed research rejects “transgender” assertions
Feminists, too, have been making this point for decades.

https://archive.is/keqM4#selection-1943.0-1943.53

and…

Biology Isn’t Bigotry: Christians, Lesbians, and Radical Feminists Unite to Fight          Gender Ideology

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/03/18894/

… &

Feminists and Christians Unite Against Transgender Bathroom Policy

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/25164-christians-and-feminists-unite-against-transgender-bathroom-policy/

and…

Liberals Melt Down After Feminist YouTuber Says Scientifically Correct Thing About The Sexes

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/10/sjws-melt-feminist-youtuber-says-scientifically-correct-thing-sexes/

and…

The bizarre fight between feminists and trans activists shows liberals are at war          with reality

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-bizarre-fight-between-feminists-and-trans-activists-shows-were-at-war-w

and…

Transgender activists put a bullseye on leftist women in the academy and on campus

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31005

… &

Feminists Say They’re Being ‘Bullied and Blackmailed’ Over Opposition to Canada’s Transgender Rights Bill

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/theyre-not-really-women-feminist-activists-slam-canadas-transgender-rights-bill/

… &

Transgender “Women” [i.e. men pretending to be women] Tell Feminist Women’s March  They’re Not Inclusive Enough

http://dailysignal.com/2017/11/02/transgender-women-tell-womens-march-theyre-not-inclusive-enough/amp/

… &

Bad Feminist’ Author Tells Trans Advocate To ‘Slap’ Lesbian Woman

http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/17/bad-feminist-author-tells-trans-advocate-slap-lesbian-woman/

[Yet many feminists still refuse to see the obvious.]

Biological boy competes with and beats girls in track.  This was the moment when feminism died.  That boy (who couldn’t even bother to shave his mustache) may have stolen a girl’s very future, and not one feminist cares.  I searched the usual feminist-saturated sources, like the Huffington Post and Jezebel, for articles on this travesty and came up empty.  Dead silence.

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/06/14/transgendered-track-star-proves-were-all-insane/

[See the next section.]

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Athletes Say…

Transgender victories raise questions of fairness in girls’ sports

https://world.wng.org/2017/06/boys_against_girls

JennerVsSerena

and…

Boys Will Keep Winning Girls’ Sports Trophies Until We Are Willing To Re-Assert              Sex Distinctions

http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/11/boys-will-keep-winning-girls-sports-trophies-willing-re-assert-sex-distinctions/

[Keep reading to understand how true that is.]

FinishLine

Trans Athlete Admits He Has A ‘Size Advantage’ Over Female Competitors

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/06/trans-athlete-admits-he-has-a-size-advantage-over-female-competitors/?print=1

and…

This Woman Is DOMINATING Her Cycle Racing.

Except She’s Not A Woman.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/11048/woman-dominating-her-cycle-racing-except-shes-not-amanda-prestigiacomo

and…

Another Unfair Transgender Advantage
A transgender New Zealander medaled on Tuesday at the World Weightlifting Championships.

https://world.wng.org/content/first_us_baby_born_from_transplanted_womb/#athletes

… &

New Zealand “Transgender” Weightlifter [i.e. a biological man pretending to be a woman] Shatters Records

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/04/30/new-zealand-transgender-weightlifter-shatters-records/

… &

Backlash as transgender weightlifter qualifies for Commonwealth Games

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/24/backlash-as-transgender-weightlifter-qualifies-for-womens-category-at-commonwealth-games/

and…

Transgender MMA Fighter Destroys Female Opponent

https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/transgender-mma-fighter-destroys-female-opponent/

and…

“When Tifanny Abreu slammed the volleyball over the net, [his] frizzy ponytail flying behind [him], most spectators at a recent game moaned out loud: another point for the [transgender cheaters].

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/world/americas/brazil-transgender-volleyball-tifanny-abreu.html

and…

Male Transgender Sprinter Wins Two Girls State Championships — as a Freshman

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/06/07/male-transgender-sprinter-wins-girls-state-championship-as-a-freshman/

… &

Transgender ‘girl’ track star with mustache crushes female competitors

http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/06/transgender-girl-track-star-with-mustache-crushes-female-competitors

and…

Two Transgenders Blow Out Girls In State Track Meet

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31605/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien

and…

“Andraya is a transgender girl [i.e. a boy pretending to be a girl] who was running for the girls’ track team… [who] won the girls 100- and 200-meter dashes…

http://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-hs-cromwell-track-andraya-yearwood-0407-20170406-story.html

and…

[Then there are girls and women taking steroids to enhance their female-to-male dysphoria… and actually beating *men*].

Transgender ‘boy [i.e. a girl using steroids — which boy wrestlers are not allowed to use — to help her pretend to be a boy] wins girls’ state wrestling title for second time

https://nypost.com/2018/02/25/transgender-boy-wins-girls-state-wrestling-title-for-second-time/

… &

“Mack Beggs… is a girl who is undergoing [performance enhancing drug] procedures to make her appear to be a [boy].  In a high school wrestling competition, the testosterone injections Beggs is receiving make her vastly stronger than the other girls, and as a result, Beggs is crushing [even] the [male] competition [because they are prohibited from abusing the same steroids which “Mack” is allowed to abuse]…”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/02/transgender_doctrine_absurd_premise_deadly_results.html

… &

Transgender MMA fighter beats male opponent, says it would be unfair to fight women

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/15/anne-veriato-transgender-mma-fighter-beats-male-op/

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Former Trangenders Say…

What Two Former Transexual Women (Actual, Biological Men) Want You To Know    About All The Liberal Lies

http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/11/what-two-former-trans-men-want-you-to-know-about-all-the-lies/

and…

This Man Received 167 Sex-Change Surgeries.  He Now Lives in a World of Regret.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/01/12/man-received-167-sex-change-surgeries-lives-world-regret/

and…

1 Year After Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/17/1-year-after-sex-change-this-teen-regrets-his-frankenstein-hack-job/

and…

Transgender Realized He Made a Mistake. This is His Message To The World.

https://www.facebook.com/YeshuaOfficial/videos/10153453582594669/?hc_ref=ARQPUclIKbkxsJUXcQeqHpnG_PZ6Hwu-GOzAyDc9PKQu8zV7dbbRE0Xvr_nACwCx2Yo

… &

Even though I was born male, I… pursued my lifelong dream of being a woman.                  I believed the ‘reality’ that I wanted to believe.  I took on an elaborate alternate identity, made possible by hormones and surgery, and lived as a transgender woman.  But a funny thing happened.  After about eight years, I gradually awoke.  I realized the simple biological truth: I was still a man, had always been a man, and always would be a man.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/10/20169/

and…

How I found freedom from gender confusion

http://www.thegoodbook.com/blog/interestingthoughts/2016/10/12/how-i-found-freedom-from-gender-confusion-part-1
&
http://www.thegoodbook.com/blog/interestingthoughts/2016/10/13/how-i-found-freedom-from-gender-confusion-part-2

and…

Transgender Regret Is Real Even If The Media Tell You Otherwise
They don’t want you to know: regret 20 percent, attempted suicides 41 percent, mental illness 60-90 percent among transgendered population.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/19/transgender-regret-is-real-even-if-the-media-tell-you-otherwise/

and…

Many transgender persons regret what they did to their bodies and souls, and some are pleading that others not repeat their mistake

https://world.wng.org/2017/03/sounding_the_alarm

and…

The majority of individuals had negative feelings towards both their own transition and towards transition in general…

http://guideonragingstars.tumblr.com/post/149877706175/female-detransition-and-reidentification-survey

and…

Transgender Identities Are Not Always Permanent

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/09/17753/

and…

While Three Transgenders Celebrate Election Victories, Detransitioners Tell                        A Different Story

http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/16/three-transgenders-celebrate-election-victories-detransitioners-tell-different-story/

and…

Another “Transgender” Transition Regret Story

https://www.str.org/blog/another-transition-regret-story#.WrL26dPvi71

and…

Paul Lopez – Ex-‘Transwoman’ – Detransitioning ‘Lynna’ and Reclaiming His Male Self

http://americansfortruth.com/2016/09/22/video-paul-lopez-ex-transwoman-detransitioning-lynna-and-reclaiming-his-male-self-new-life-new-look/

and…

Former trans-woman: I dumped my dresses, hair, makeup to follow Jesus

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-trans-woman-i-dumped-my-dresses-hair-makeup-to-follow-jesus

… &

Lebanese Trans-gender Meets Jesus and Gets Transformed Back To His Real Self!

http://www.sundayadelajablog.com/amazing-lebanese-trans-gender-meets-jesus-gets-transformed-back-real-self/

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Voters have said…

The ‘Fairness for All’ approach [to SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) laws]… tries to forestall some of its worst consequences through limited religious exemptions.  Exemptions, however, do not convert an otherwise bad policy into a good one, and the result here is not fairness for all, but unfairness for many with exemptions for a fortunate few.

http://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/how-think-about-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-sogi-policies-and

and…

Convicted sex offender crafted North Carolina LGBT bathroom bill

https://winteryknight.com/2016/03/31/convicted-sex-offender-crafted-north-carolina-lgbt-bathroom-bill/

… &

3 Reasons North Carolina [Was Originally] Right to Protect the Privacy and Safety             of its Citizens

http://adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2016/05/13/3-reasons-north-carolina-is-right-to-protect-the-privacy-and-safety-of-its-citizens

… &

Six Reasons North Carolina [Originally] Got It Right

http://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2016/03/30/six-reasons-north-carolina-got-it-right-n2141010/print

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Courts have said…

[Well, some of them have.]

Obama administration guidelines on bathrooms lacked legal authority

http://adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/obama-administration-guidelines-on-bathrooms-lack-legal-authority

and…

The Transgender Lobby’s Demands Are Not Civil Rights

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/22/transgender-lobbys-demands-not-civil-rights/

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God Says…

[For those who prefer videos to essays and articles, go  here .]

People Say the Bible Doesn’t Talk About Transgenderism.  It Does.

https://stream.org/not-just-deuteronomy/

[See  Deuteronomy 22:5  &  Genesis 2:24 ]

… &

What Does the Bible Say About Transgenderism?

https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/kevindeyoung/2016/09/08/what-does-the-bible-say-about-transgenderism/

… &

What the Bible Says About Gender

https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/08/17/bible-says-gender/

and…

Men and women are not interchangeable.  The man and the woman — in marriage especially, but in the rest of life as well — complement each other, meaning they are supposed to function according to a divine fitted-ness.  This is in keeping with the order­ing of the entire cosmos…  Sexual difference is the way of God’s wisdom and grace. It was there in the garden, there in the life of ancient Israel, there in the Gospels, there in the early church, will be there at the wedding supper of the Lamb, and was there in the mind of God before any of this began.  To be sure, manhood and womanhood is not the message of the gospel.  But it is never far from the storyline of redemptive history.  The givenness of being male or female is also a gift — a gift to embrace, a natural order of fittedness and func­tion that embodies the way the world is supposed to work and the way we ought to follow Christ in the world.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/gods-good-gift-in-making-us-men-and-women/

… &

God created man male and female in His image, sexual complements who together fulfill the mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth ( Gen 1:28 ).  Any so-called marriage that does not consist of the joining of the two different but complementary sexes is therefore not a valid marriage.

https://tabletalkmagazine.com/daily-study/2021/03/the-beginning-of-marriage/

and…

“[Since] the image of God is represented in the union of two specific, clearly defined categories — male and female — and if the only partnership commended throughout scripture is likewise binary — one man; one woman — and if the sex we’re born with is a divine assignment (cf.  Jeremiah 1:5 Psalm 139:13–16 ) then sexual binaries aren’t secondary, adjustable window dressing to the human experience.  They’re foundational to it, accounting for its ability to replicate and to maintain familial and social stability.

https://stream.org/trans-actions/

and…

In light of… the social, medical, political, and legislative changes being wrought by the widespread acceptance of transgender claims, Christians have an urgent need to search the Scriptures carefully and prayerfully to see how God would have us think about and respond to such revolutionary developments…  The first and fundamental responsibility of every Christian is to… listen carefully to what the Bible teaches us about human sexuality and gender identity, and then to work out how we live, love, and minister in a very confused and sometimes hostile culture, and to the many confused individuals within it (if not within our churches also)…  With refreshing clarity, the basic, binary, and dimorphic nature of human sex is revealed in the creation account of  Genesis 1:26-27  and then repeated in  Genesis 5:1b-2 …  The implication of these texts is plain: God has created no third sex!  This was not only the case before humanity’s fall into sin (hereafter ‘the Fall’), as we see in Genesis 1, but remains the case after the Fall, as we see in Genesis 5…  The binary reality of human sexuality revealed in Genesis 1 is both emphasized and developed in  Genesis 2:24-25 …  The clear implication of this move from ‘male’ and ‘female’ (in Genesis 1) to ‘man‘ and ‘woman‘ (in Genesis 2), an implication everywhere confirmed as the biblical narrative unfolds, is that a person’s biological sex reveals and determines both their objective gender (what gender they, in fact, are) and certain key gender roles (should they be taken up).  That is, human males grow into men (and potentially husbands and fathers) and human females grow into women (and potentially wives and mothers).  Indeed it is this set of binary connections that makes human marriage possible…  Lest we be in any doubt, this point is underlined by none other than Jesus himself [ Mat 19:4  and  Mk 10:6  ].  In answering a question about divorce posed by the Pharisees, he references  Genesis 1:27  (and  1:1  also), interpolating the word ‘from‘ (Greek, ‘apo‘) to indicate that the binary nature of human sex is not only an ongoing fact but one with ongoing implications…  Moreover, far from contradicting the teaching of either Genesis or Jesus, [intersex] conditions [i.e. people born with genitalia or other features normally unique to one or the other sex] are normally, and rightly, classified as ‘medically identifiable deviations from the human binary sexual norm‘ ( American College of Pediatricians ).  In other words, male and female are not two extremes at either end of a broad continuum and, as we’ve already noted, the intersexed are not a third sex.  From the beginning of creation, God made human beings male and female and either male or female, despite the difficulty we may have (on extremely rare occasions) of determining a person’s sex…  Such an understanding also helps us to see the rationale behind the Bible’s condemnation of a number of behaviors that fall under the banner of ‘gender bending.’  The first of these behaviors is cross-dressing.  This is addressed directly and unequivocally in  Deuteronomy 22:5 …  The second of the behaviors that Scripture censures is sexual effeminacy; that is, a man playing the part of a woman (by being the ‘receiver’) in homosexual intercourse.  Those who engage in such a practice, and are finally unrepentant, are listed among those who will be excluded from the kingdom of God [ 1Cor 6:9-10 ]…  Self-feminization for the purposes of homosexual sex is thus unambiguously condemned by Paul.  However, it is also likely that he would be equally troubled by those who engage in a process of feminization to erase further their masculine appearance and manner).  So if the practice of cross-dressing remains problematic (as  Deuteronomy 22:5  indicates), how much more serious is surgical transitioning?…  The third behavior the Bible opposes is gender ambiguity; that is, the attempt to blur the lines between male and female by one’s gender expression.  This is Paul’s chief concern in  1 Corinthians 11:2–16 …  Although there are a number of difficulties and obscurities in the passage in which these verses appear, what is clear is that Paul desires both men and women in general, and husbands and wives in particular, to wholeheartedly embrace and unambiguously express the gender distinctions with which we have been created, rather than to deny, diminish, or disguise them…  As we reflect further on the implications of the above passages, it is important to recognize that none of them suggests that those with genuine gender incongruence [a.k.a. gender dysphoria] are culpable for their condition.  There is a biblical category of ‘affliction‘ (Greek, ‘malakia‘) that is, most certainly, a consequence of humanity’s sin but not necessarily, and certainly not always, a consequence of the afflicted person’s own sin (e.g. , John 9:1–3 ).  Therefore, unlike willful, rebellious gender bending or deliberate and destructive gender erasing (which are certainly prohibited by such texts), the experience of gender incongruence [dysphoria] would appear to be largely a non-volitional, and to that extent a non-moral, illness.  It is also a deeply distressing illness. Consequently, our first response to those who suffer from it ought to be compassion and care, not condemnation or censure…  At this point, someone might ask, ‘But shouldn’t we try to alleviate suffering wherever possible? And, if so, is there not an argument for relieving a gender dysphoric person’s distress by bringing their body into alignment with their mind?‘  Traditional medical ethics would suggest not.  The canons of sound medical practice have typically ‘ruled against surgical intervention into a living human body except to protect the functional integrity of that body when it was endangered by disease or injury‘… For Christians, the biblical doctrines of creation, incarnation, and resurrection all support the view that the physical structure of our human bodies is not something we are free to change without very careful thought.  What this means, as Dr. John Wyatt points out, is that we should only use medical and surgical technology ‘in a way which is appropriate to preserve and protect the original design, to maintain and preserve the creation order embodied in the structure of the human body‘… In the case of gender incongruence, it is the mind that is disordered, not the body.  Sexual Reassignment Surgery, therefore, is a category mistake — it offers a surgical ‘solution’ [mutilation, actually] for psychological problems…  Furthermore, SRS is a permanent, effectively unchangeable, and often unsatisfying surgical attempt to change what may be only a temporary (i.e., psychotherapeutically changeable) psychological/psychiatric condition…  As one of the tragic effects of the Fall, the gender dysphoric person is suffering from a pathology of the mind…  In other words, because the problem is in the mind and not the body, it should be treated with psychotherapy and not surgery.  Consequently, any treatment of gender incongruence [dysphoria] that seeks to relieve mental suffering by inflicting harm on an otherwise healthy body cannot be deemed ethical…  [T]he experience of gender incongruence [dysphoria] falls most naturally in the… category [of] burden [as opposed to sin].  Mark Yarhouse is, therefore, right to point out that ‘there is a need for the church to be able to cope with the disclosure of gender dysphoria among those who experience it and have the courage to share what they are going through.  And not just cope, but embrace, love, and protect.  These precious brothers and sisters require our special care and must be surrounded by much love, prayer, and emotional, spiritual, and practical support‘…  At the same time, and as we’ve already noted, there are ways of managing gender incongruence [dysphoria] that, from a biblical standpoint, fall into the category of sin…  All forms of intentional cross-gender identification are inappropriate for those in Christ.  The fact that some of God’s people desire such ‘space‘ does not mean it is beneficial for them.  Repentance, then, will mean seeking to live consistently with one’s God-given sex.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/responding-to-the-transgender-revolution/

and…

Transgenderism Destroys Natural and Moral Law
The demolition of the Jewish and Christian [and Muslim, btw] faiths is exactly what is desired by transgenderists

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/genderism_destroys_natural_and_moral_law.html

… &

… the very statutes invoked by LGBT activists and their surrogates to attempt to neutralize the authority of the Mosaic law through mockery actually bolster the authority of God’s law against LGBT conduct.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/transgenderism-and-the-collapse-of-social-order/print/

and…

What the Gospel Means for the Transgender Debate

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-the-gospel-means-for-the-transgender-debate

and…

8 Theses That Helps Us Think Biblically about Transgenderism

http://michaeljkruger.com/8-theses-that-helps-us-think-biblically-about-transgenderism

and…

Transgenderism: What we are doing to ourselves is beyond tragic.

https://stream.org/loss-gods-pain/

and…

Dear LGBT-Supporting ‘Christian Mommy Bloggers’: Holiness Is the Path to True Joy

https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/06/16/dear-lgbt-supporting-christian-mommy-bloggers-holiness-is-the-path-to-true-joy/

and…

Nobody hears much about family members who are often deeply affected by transgender decisions

https://world.wng.org/2017/05/lost_in_the_celebration

and…

The Christian Response to Gender Dysphoria

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-christian-response-to-gender-dysphoria

… &

If Christians see ourselves as people who are ‘losing‘ a culture rather than people who have been sent on a mission to a culture, we will be outraged and hopeless instead of compassionate and convictional.  If we do not love our mission field, we will have nothing to say to it…  We Christians believe that all of us are sinners, and that none of us are freaks.  We conclude that all of us are called to repentance, and part of what repentance means is to receive the gender with which God created us, even when that’s difficult.  We must affirm that God loves all persons, and that the gospel is good news for repentant prodigal sons and daughters, including for those who have trouble figuring out which is which.

http://www.russellmoore.com/2017/02/23/transgender-debate-means-church/

… &

What Christianity Alone Offers Transgender Persons

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-christianity-alone-offers-transgender-persons

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Biblical Christianity Has the Most Loving Response to Transgenderism

https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/07/24/biblical-christianity-has-the-most-loving-response-to-transgenderism/

and…

Is God Transgender?  It Helps To Know Hebrew

http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/19/is-god-transgender-it-helps-to-know-hebrew/

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Transmedia:

‘Transgender’ Tragedy and Media Malpractice
Mutilating your body in order to satisfy a demented desire to change your sex simply because you feel like it can have deadly consequences.
Instead of reporting this madness for what it is, and ignoring all sound science and morality, the media are helping to spread virtually every absurd idea spawned by the LGBT agenda – even as people are dying.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/transgender_tragedy_and_media_malpractice.html

and…

Sex change regret silenced by trans activists and their liberal media lemmings
One renowned surgeon says more study is needed of why some people ‘detransition

https://world.wng.org/content/sex_change_regret_silenced

and…

Mainstream Liberal Media Myths of the Homosexual-Transgender Agenda

http://americansfortruth.com/2016/08/25/media-myths-of-the-homosexual-transgender-agenda-special-aim-report-by-peter-labarbera/

and…

Almost Everything the Media Tell You About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity        Is Wrong

http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/22/almost-everything-the-media-tells-you-about-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-is-wrong/

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Transfascism (incl. The “Equality” Act):

The Orwellian Dangers of the ‘Equality Act’
By establishing a national anthropology based on an ideology of self rather than embodied sex, the Equality Act would deepen cultural divisions and chill reasoned debate on complex bioethical issues.  Those who do not accept the legislation’s totalitarian twisting of language would be open targets for a modern American parallel to Orwell’s ‘two-minutes hate.

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/04/51068/

and…

Federal, State & Local Government Efforts to Impose Transgender Ideology

http://www.christianpost.com/news/heres-a-look-at-govt-efforts-to-advance-transgender-identity-193592/

and…

Indiana high school teacher claims he was forced to resign because he did not want to violate his conscience by calling transgender students by their preferred name, rather than those given at birth.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/08/indiana-high-school-teacher-claims-was-forced-to-resign-because-transgender-policy.html

and…

LGBT Group Destroys Career of Transgender Reporter Who Exposed its Anti-Semitism

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2017/07/18/lgbt-group-destroys-career-transgender-reporter-who-exposed

and…

The LGBT political lobby has powerful friends to silence men like Jeffrey McCall.  But his testimony needs to be heard.

https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/contributors/why-is-this-moving-transgender-testimony-being-ignored–jd9qHQJbEOZFVP5rpNngw/?full=1

and…

The Left have shown the totalitarian manner in which they exact support, or at least silence, from everyday Americans.  Homosexual “marriage” was just a wedge.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/06/transgender-crusade-made-rethink-support-gay-marriage/

and…

Lesbian: “…transgender people [are] overtaking the LGBT movement and trying to silence [competing] views…

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31325/

and…

Leftist Forum Silences Lesbian Panel Criticizing Trans Advocacy Funding

http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/02/left-forum-cancels-lesbian-panel-questioning-trans-advocacy-funding/

and…

Pro-transgender George Washington U. students threaten, attack pro-family group

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32083/

and…

Another state issues transgender rules for churches

http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/another-state-issues-transgender-rules-for-churches/print/

and…

Two Videos Reveal Trans Ideology’s Goals: Ending Sex And Normalizing Abuse

http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/26/two-videos-reveal-trans-ideologys-goals-ending-sex-normalizing-abuse/

and…

U.K. academic blocked from researching people who reversed their gender assignment surgery speaks out
University wanted to avoid criticism of ‘politically incorrect’ piece of research

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/psychotherapist-gender-assignment-surgery-reverse-research-stop-trans-bath-spa-university-james-a7965281.html

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All About Bathrooms:

The War On Women Moves to Restrooms

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/the_war_on_women_moves_to_restrooms.html

and…

Bathrooms

Bathroom Boycotts Flush Safety of Women and Girls

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/bathroom_boycotts_flush_safety_of_women_and_girls.html

and…

The Data Suggest Unisex Bathrooms Are A Bonanza To Male Perverts

http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/09/data-suggests-unisex-bathrooms-bonanza-male-perverts/

and…

Want to Know Why Women-Only Bathrooms Matter?  Ask a Rape Survivor

https://stream.org/want-know-women-bathrooms-matter-ask-rape-survivor/

and…

The Unintended Victims of Bathroom Bills and Locker Room Policies

https://www.facebook.com/AllianceDefendingFreedom/videos/10154210943103417/

and…

American Medical Association Opposes Transgender ‘Bathroom Bills’

http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/american-medical-association-opposes-transgender-bathroom-bills-n772401

and…

Transgender Restrooms are not a Civil Right

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/transgender_restrooms_are_not_a_civil_right.html

and…

What the Transgender Bathroom Debate Means For You

http://www.russellmoore.com/2016/05/13/what-the-transgender-bathroom-debate-means-for-you/

and…

Leftists Say There Are No Examples of Men Exploiting ‘Trans’ Laws to Harm Women. Here Are 9.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13928/leftists-say-there-are-no-examples-men-exploiting-amanda-prestigiacomo

[Here are more than 9 more…]

Man charged after 10-year-old girl says he watched her in bathroom

http://wbtw.com/2016/04/21/man-charged-after-10-year-old-girl-says-he-watched-her-in-bathroom/

… &

Woman Secretly Videotaped in Bathroom on NBCUniversal Lot

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/woman-recorded-restroom-nbc-universal-lot-day-care-1201984457/

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Seattle man undresses in women’s locker room at local pool to test new transgender bathroom rule

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wa-man-women-bathroom-test-transgender-ruling-article-1.2535150

… &

Sexual predator jailed after claiming to be ‘transgender’ to assault women in shelter

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sexual-predator-jailed-after-claiming-to-be-transgender-in-order-to-assault

… &

A Milwaukee woman has a warning for others after she said a man tried to sexually assault her in a locker room.”

http://fox6now.com/2016/12/12/i-was-very-stunned-sexual-assault-victim-shares-her-story-to-warn-others/

… &

Transgender Woman [i.e. a man pretending to be a woman] Is Charged With Voyeurism at Target in Idaho

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/us/target-transgender-idaho-voyeurism.html

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State leader quits ACLU after daughters were ‘visibly frightened’ by men using          women’s restroom

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/state-leader-quits-aclu-after-children-were-visibly-frightened-by-transgend

… &

Charlotte Woman Upset After Finding Man in Women’s Restroom

http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2016/07/03/charlotte-woman-upset-after-finding-man-in-womens-restroom/

… &

Liberal mom runs into pervert in ‘transgender‘ Disneyland bathroom

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/liberal_mom_runs_into_pervert_in_transgender_bathroom.html

… &

A collection of articles and resources illustrating the danger of dual-sex restrooms, changing rooms, shower and shelter facilities

https://justwantprivacy.org/incidents/

and…

The Transgender Bathroom Debate Has [Almost] Nothing To Do With Bathrooms

Let’s stop pretending trans kids care about where they go to the bathroom.  The LGBTQ movement cares because that’s how they advance their agenda.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/08/transgender-bathroom-debate-nothing-bathrooms/

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Bathrooms are just the beginning: a scary look into the trans movement’s end goals

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bathrooms-are-just-the-beginning-a-scary-look-into-the-trans-movements-end

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Transpocrisy:

Where was all this appropriate outrage towards men in women’s private facilities when the NBA moved its all-star game out of North Carolina because the state has a law that keeps men out of women’s public locker rooms and restrooms?  Or why are teenage girls in Illinois and Minnesota having to fight in federal court for their privacy rights, so that their school doesn’t order them to share their locker room and shower areas with a sexually confused male student?

http://adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2016/10/14/no-trump-in-women-s-dressing-rooms-but-males-in-general-are-okay

and…

Minneapolis School Program Demonstrates How Transgenderism Hurts Women’s Progress and Can’t Survive Its Own Logic

http://adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2017/01/03/minneapolis-school-program-demonstrates-how-transgenderism-hurts-women-s-progress-and-can-t-survive-its-own-logic

and…

3 fatal flaws in the “gender as social construct” position

https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/3-fatal-flaws-in-the-gender-as-social-construct-position

and…

Four Reasons Even Liberals Should Oppose Homosexual/Transgender Therapy Bans
1: The bans contradict liberals’ own narrative that sexual orientation is immutable
2: The bans infringe on the liberty of LGBT people.
3: The bans violate the free speech rights of LGBT people.
4: The bans prohibit a professional practice it cannot even define.

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/nancy-pearcey/4-reasons-even-liberals-should-oppose-californias-gay-therapy-ban

… &

2019 JAMA Psychiatry Study Simply Cannot Tell Us Whether All Transgender & Homosexual Deconversion Therapies Are Harmful

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/09/57145/

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The Kids Aren’t All Right:
What the Gender-Identity Revolution Has in Common with 1960s’ Drug Culture

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/02/18781/

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Transuicide:

41% of transgender individuals attempt suicide,                                                                  compared to 4.6% of the general public.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/the_transgender_agenda_against_our_children_time_to_push_back.html

and…

[P]eople who have had sex reassignment surgery are approximately 20 times more likely than the general population to die by suicide…  [W]orld-renowned genital reconstructive surgeon Miroslav Djordjevic said his clinics are experiencing an increase in ‘reversal’ surgeries for those who want their genitalia back… [and] scientific evidence suggests that hormone-induced puberty suppression is harmful and even abusive.”

http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/30/ugly-truth-sex-reassignment-transgender-lobby-doesnt-want-know/

and…

The Transgender Suicide Rate Isn’t Due To Discrimination

http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/07/evidence-the-transgender-suicide-rate-isnt-due-to-discrimination/

and…

Transgender Suicides: What to Do About Them

“I have personally experienced gender dysphoria, and I explored transition in my early twenties. I am aware of the emotional struggle, but I am also aware of the empowering realization that I alone control how I perceive the world.”

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/07/19769/

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The Translippery Slope:

Tater Tots’ Now A Gender

http://babylonbee.com/news/tater-tots-now-gender/

… &

Man Identifying As 6-Year-Old Crushes Game-Winning Homer In Tee-Ball Championship

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-identifying-6-year-old-crushes-game-winning-homer-tee-ball-championship

[Yes, both of those were satirical, again.  For a reason.]

and…

Man who ‘never felt human’ now “identifies” as a dog in £2,000 fur suit

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/human-pup-who-never-felt-14235958

and…

Target Announces Senior Discount For Anyone Who Self-Identifies As Age 60 Or Older

http://babylonbee.com/news/target-announces-senior-discount-anyone-self-identifies-age-60-older/

and…

Transhumanism: Upgrading Humans into ‘Gods’

http://www.reasons.org/audio/upgrading-humans-into-gods

… &

What’s Love Got to Do with Transhumanism?

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/06/whats-love-got-to-do-with-transhumanism

and…

Determined ‘Not to Die a Human,’ Transgender Dragon Lady Spent $60K to Confirm ‘Second Birth’

https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/determined-not-to-die-a-human-transgender-dragon-lady-spent-60k-to-confirm-second-birth/

and…

Transaging’?  Father leaves wife, 7 children to live as 6-year-old girl

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/transaging-father-leaves-wife-7-children-to-live-as-6-year-old-girl

and…

This article explores the formation of a tranimal, hippopotamus alter-ego.
Confronting transgender with transpecies

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2017.1322822

and…

Normalizing Incest and Other Perversions: It’s Already Happening
Or their goats?  Or their dead friends?

https://stream.org/normalizing-incest-its-already-happening/

and…

Yet another left-wing slippery slope
Rachel Dolezal says she identifies as ‘trans-black’

http://wjla.com/news/offbeat/rachel-dolezal-says-she-identifies-as-trans-black

… &

A new version of liberal identity politics casts race – just like gender – on a spectrum, and its author — Rachel Dolezal — is the world’s first trans-black case.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/rachel_dolezal_has_become_a_nightmare_for_the_transgender_fantasists.html

… &

Why Transgender Is Not the New Black

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2016/05/10/why-transgender-is-not-the-new-black-n2160634

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Transmilitary:

Transgender: We’re ‘Medically Reliant’ Like Diabetics, Asthmatics                                       ‘We Should Be Disqualified’ from Military

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/theresa-smith/transgender-were-medically-reliant-diabetics-and-asthmatics-should-be

and…

By calling himself a woman, Bradley [Chelsea] Manning managed to transform himself from a traitor to a victim.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/mannings_commutation_a_hypocrite_president_saves_a_confused_leaker.html

and…

I’m A Transgender, Decorated Veteran.  I Oppose Military-Sponsored Sex Changes.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/29/im-transgender-decorated-veteran-oppose-military-sponsored-sex-changes/

… &

I Became Transgender In The Military.  That’s How I Know People Shouldn’t

Donald Trump is correct to try to ban those with gender dysphoria from serving in the military.  He is also correct in refusing to allow the military participate in gender transitions.  My failed sex change is proof of that.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/12/became-transgender-military-thats-know-people-shouldnt/

… &

From a Former Transgender:  Why Trump Keeping Trans People From The Military Is A Good Decision

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/27/trump-keeping-trans-people-military-good-decision/

and…

Progressives’ arguments in favor of transgender soldiers are drenched in self-righteousness — but they are also inane and dangerous.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/28/6-ridiculous-arguments-favor-transgender-soldiers/

and…

This One Photo Perfectly Sums Up Why We Need A Military Transgender Ban

https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/07/26/this-one-photo-perfectly-sums-up-why-we-needed-trumps-military-transgender-ban/

[See, also,  this page .]

and…

5 Good Reasons Why Transgender Accommodations Aren’t Compatible With             Military Realities

http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/26/5-good-reasons-transgender-accommodations-arent-compatible-military-realities/

and…

Why Keeping Trans People From The Military Is A Good Decision

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/27/trump-keeping-trans-people-military-good-decision/

and…

Transgender in the Military: Still a Bad Idea

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/transgender_in_the_military_still_a_bad_idea.html

and…

Military service is a privilege, not a right.  And the military has an obligation only to admit and retain soldiers who make it more effective at fighting wars.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/31/military-service-privilege-transgender-people-arent-qualified/

and…

Contra Activist Judges, It’s Not Discriminatory to Prohibit Transgender Individuals From Joining Military

“… equal protection prohibits invidious discrimination based on immutable characteristics such as race — discrimination lacking any rational justification.  It does not apply to rationally based noninvidious differentiation among classes of individuals needed to advance national goals, such as a strong military.  Rules denying military service opportunities to individuals who have serious medical problems (for example, heart disease, chronic asthma, or cancer) are not invidious discrimination — they are fully rational efforts to promote well-run and effective military services.  Because individuals suffering from significant medical difficulties drive up costs and tend to impair combat effectiveness, it is perfectly rational to bar them from military recruitment.”

http://dailysignal.com/2017/12/12/contra-activist-judges-not-allowing-transgender-individuals-to-join-military-is-not-illegal-discrimination/

and…

… the [formerly Trumpian] policy [on transgenderism] is consistent with the [longstanding] Department of Defense approach to a host of other medical and psychological conditions…

https://world.wng.org/content/transgender_troop_policy_puts_military_readiness_first/

and…

Transsexual ‘Surgeries’ in the Military: What Are You Paying For? ‘Vaginoplasty’ Described

http://americansfortruth.com/2017/07/20/transsexual-surgeries-in-the-military-what-are-you-paying-for-vaginoplasty-described/

[The point: What liberals call “surgery” is, in the real world, medical mutilation.]

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