Fifteen years ago it was middle-aged men, very often fathers, deciding they should have been women all along, who formed the backbone of the miniscule transgender movement. They were so few, and so off-the-wall, they were a mere add-on to the homosexual network. Even bisexuals took precedence among ‘LGBT’ activists.
But now the focus has shifted to the school. Four year-olds are coming out with the ‘trapped in the wrong body’ mantra. Last night (12th January 2017), a BBC2 documentary explored the culture war between the ‘gender affirmative’ mainstream and the traditionalist dissidents. The iplayer version of ‘Transgender kids who knows best‘ is available for 29 days.
Gender Affirmative
‘Gender affirmative’ blindly accepts what the child is saying. It objects to any idea of a psychological or emotional root to the child’s gender dysphoria. It objects to there being any parallel dysfunction in the child’s mind. It allows the child to progess to hormone treatment which blocks the onset of puberty and from thence to full hormone treatment and ‘sex reassignment’ surgery, which is irreversible.
Crucially, ‘gender affirmative’ holds the levers of power in the UK and in Canada, the focus of the documentary.
The documentary gave time to Ontario Politician Cheri dii Novo to set out her pro-transsexual views. In November 2016, MIss di Novo marked ‘International Trans Day of Remembrance’ raising ‘the Trans Flag at the Ontario Legislature for the first time in history’. Later that month she celebrated the All Families Are Equal Act. This is where law-making becomes ‘LGBTQ’ activism, in which Miss di Novo excels.
Transgender Opponent
But the film also gave a welcome platform to Dr Kenneth Zucker. He ran Toronto’s Child Gender Clinic for thirty years and helped many children accept their God-given biological gender. In the documentary he said a “whole range of psychological issues can manifest themselves in a child’s desire to change their gender”. Dr Zucker said a majority of the children he had treated also had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or were on the autism spectrum, or had other psychological problems. One girl he treated had seen her mother murdered and began to think if she had been a boy she could have prevented it. So she then hated being a girl.
There was a heartbreaking moment when a girl described how she had undergone a double mastectomy as part of gender reassignment surgery before realising she wanted to remain as a woman.
A creepy activist, female-to-male transsexual and psychotherapist called Hershel Russel made light of the case. ‘There are very few,’ she said.
Furious transgender activists
Activists were furious, according to the Guardian. Susie Green own son wanted to be a girl. She is now chief executive officer of the ‘trans’ agitators Mermaids Foundation. She told the paper: “We’ve had real concern that this is going to cause them to be targeted, because it supports this idea of trans children being mentally disturbed or that they can be cured. Parents are very afraid.”
But parents outside activist groups are relieved someone is sticking up for them. There was an uplifting story in the documentary of a family who resisted their daughter’s claims that she was a boy. They attended Dr Zucker’s clinic. Showing her she could play ball games and take part in rough sports transformed her life. She is now a happy adolescent girl.
Mermaids has been criticised itself for ‘bullying’ parents and schools in ‘gender affirmation’.
Not in step with the latest thinking
In 2015 Dr Zucker was sacked and his clinic closed when his approach fell foul of the spirit of the age. His work was “not in step with the latest thinking”. the BBC defended his inclusion in the programme. They said: ‘He believes he was fired for challenging the gender affirmative approach.’ Five hundred of his colleagues signed a letter supporting him.
At the very end of the programme, ‘Warner’, a small boy dressing up as girl with the full approval of his misguided parents, said he thought there were ‘a couple of pieces missing’ in his brain.
But surely our whole society is now a few sandwiches short of a picnic. We sack doctors trying to help young people. We browbeat parents into ‘gender affirmation’. We allow adult activists to impose damaging hormone treatments designed to block puberty on children who know no better. We allow surgeons to mutilate bodies and physicians to interfere with young people’s biochemistry. And we do all this because it is politically correct.
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One of those occasions when I agre with Stephen.
What I think is really wrong (but then I am more familiar with this than with children) is the people encouraging men to change into women when they have no chance of success. I often see one around who is about 40, very rough in his ways, and has a deep voice. Even when he is suitably padded and wears a skirt, there is no chance whatever that anybody would mistake him for a woman (he always wears an unfashionable long skirt, presumably because his legs look far from feminine). When he wears “slacks” (as I suppose he would call them) and an anorak, he just looks like a man. He is usually basically unshaven, as his black beard grows very quickly. What was the point of encouraging him along this route ?
I know another one who is more sophisticated and more refined, but still, his quite elderly wrinkled face and his deep voice will always give him away. I don’t believe hormonal treatment can unbreak a voice which has already broken.
I accept that there are a very small number of adults who have a genetic defect being not of defined sex. As opposed to a state of mind . The majority of adults who are confused about their Gender identity are mentally ill.
However they are adults free to make their own decisions .
Their is something very sinister about the so called progressives campaign to promote transgender to school children often at young age.. Is this being done to sow confusion or to gain recruits . Its notable how lesbian couples who adopt have a preference for girls and homosexual men who adopt for boys.
Also its long been known that a percentage of homosexual men are attracted to youth. The luvvies over the top praise for the movie and subsequent musical has disturbing undertones.
In modern Russia gay night clubs, banned under communist rule, can operate freely. But the Russian have a law against any pro- homosexual propaganda which might be seen by children.
correction to my above post -movie Billy Elliot –