{"id":9789,"date":"2017-01-13T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:42:54","slug":"transgender-documentary-spills-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/transgender-documentary-spills-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender documentary spills beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9791\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/transgender-documentary-spills-beans\/kennethzucker\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KennethZucker-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Kenneth Zucker was fired for rejecting the fasionable 'gender affirmation' approach.\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KennethZucker-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KennethZucker-600x648.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KennethZucker.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Kenneth Zucker was fired for rejecting the fasionable &#8216;gender affirmation&#8217; approach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fifteen years ago it was middle-aged men, very often\u00a0fathers, deciding they should have been women all along, who formed the backbone of the miniscule\u00a0transgender movement. \u00a0They were so few, and so off-the-wall, they were a mere add-on to the homosexual network. \u00a0Even bisexuals took precedence among &#8216;LGBT&#8217; activists.<\/p>\n<p>But now the focus has shifted to the school. \u00a0Four year-olds are coming out with the &#8216;trapped in the wrong body&#8217; mantra. \u00a0Last night (12th January 2017), a BBC2 documentary explored the culture war between the &#8216;gender affirmative&#8217; mainstream and the traditionalist dissidents. \u00a0The iplayer version of &#8216;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b088kxbw\/transgender-kids-who-knows-best\" target=\"_blank\">Transgender kids who knows best<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;\u00a0\u00a0is available\u00a0for 29 days.<\/p>\n<h2>Gender Affirmative<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;Gender affirmative&#8217; blindly accepts what the child is saying. \u00a0It objects to any idea of\u00a0a psychological or emotional root to the child&#8217;s gender dysphoria. \u00a0It objects to there being any parallel dysfunction in the child&#8217;s mind. \u00a0It allows\u00a0the child to progess to hormone treatment which blocks the onset of puberty and from thence to full hormone treatment and &#8216;sex reassignment&#8217; surgery, which is irreversible.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9792\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/transgender-documentary-spills-beans\/cheri-dinovo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cheridinove-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Ontario MPP Cheri di Novo\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cheridinove-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cheridinove-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cheridinove-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cheridinove-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cheridinove.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ontario MPP Cheri di Novo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Crucially, &#8216;gender affirmative&#8217;\u00a0holds the levers of power in the UK and in Canada, the focus of the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary gave time to Ontario Politician\u00a0Cheri dii Novo to set out her pro-transsexual views. \u00a0In November 2016, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cheridinovo.ca\/mpp-cheri-dinovo-to-mark-international-trans-day-of-remembrance-with-historic-flag-raising\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIss di Novo marked &#8216;International Trans Day of Remembrance&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0raising &#8216;the Trans Flag at the Ontario Legislature for the first time in history&#8217;. \u00a0Later that month she <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cheridinovo.ca\/parental-equality-finally-law-in-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated the <em>All Families Are Equal Act. <\/em><\/a><\/strong>This is where law-making becomes &#8216;LGBTQ&#8217; activism, in which Miss di Novo excels.<\/p>\n<h2>Transgender Opponent<\/h2>\n<p>But the film also gave a welcome platform to Dr Kenneth Zucker. \u00a0He ran Toronto&#8217;s Child Gender Clinic for thirty years and helped many children accept their God-given biological gender. \u00a0In the documentary he said a \u201cwhole range of psychological issues can manifest themselves in a child\u2019s desire to change their gender\u201d.\u00a0Dr Zucker said\u00a0a majority of the children he had treated also had\u00a0attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or were on the autism spectrum, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhealing.com\/articles\/genderidentitydisorder.php\" target=\"_blank\">or had other psychological problems<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0One girl he treated had seen her mother murdered and began to think if she had been a boy she could have prevented it. \u00a0So she then\u00a0hated being a girl.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9793\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/transgender-documentary-spills-beans\/hershelrussell\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hershelrussell-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"Female-to-male transsexual and psychooanalyst Hershel Russell. The whiskers are the result of all the male hormones she had to take.\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hershelrussell-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hershelrussell.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female-to-male transsexual and psychoanalyst Hershel Russell. The whiskers are the result of all the male hormones she had to take.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A creepy activist, female-to-male transsexual and psychotherapist called Hershel Russel made light of the case. \u00a0&#8216;There are very few,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<h2>Furious transgender activists<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/jan\/11\/bbc-film-on-child-transgender-issues-worries-activists\" target=\"_blank\">Activists were furious, according to the Guardian<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Susie Green own son wanted to be a girl. She is now chief executive officer of the &#8216;trans&#8217; agitators Mermaids Foundation. \u00a0She told the paper:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But parents outside activist groups are relieved someone is sticking up for them. \u00a0There was an uplifting story in the documentary of a family who resisted their daughter&#8217;s claims that she was a boy. \u00a0They attended Dr Zucker&#8217;s clinic. \u00a0Showing her she could play ball games and take part in rough sports transformed her life. \u00a0She is now a happy adolescent girl.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3883880\/Parents-bitter-battle-child-s-gender-Father-brands-controversial-transgender-charity-meddlers-case-mother-dressing-son-five-girl.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mermaids has been criticised itself<\/a><\/strong> for &#8216;bullying&#8217; parents and schools in &#8216;gender affirmation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h2>Not in step with the latest thinking<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/gender-identity-debate-swirls-over-camh-psychologist-transgender-program\/article28758828\/\" target=\"_blank\">In 2015 Dr Zucker was sacked and his clinic closed<\/a><\/strong> when his approach fell foul of the spirit of the age. \u00a0His work was\u00a0\u201cnot in step with the latest thinking\u201d. \u00a0the BBC defended his inclusion in the programme. \u00a0They said: &#8216;He believes he was fired for challenging the gender affirmative approach.&#8217; \u00a0Five hundred of his colleagues signed a letter supporting him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9794\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/transgender-documentary-spills-beans\/trans-activists\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trans-activists-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"'Trans' activists on the march\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trans-activists-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trans-activists-600x309.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/trans-activists.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Trans&#8217; activists on the march<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the very end of the programme, &#8216;Warner&#8217;, a small boy dressing up as girl with the full approval of his misguided parents, said he thought there were &#8216;a couple of pieces missing&#8217; in his brain.<\/p>\n<p>But surely our whole society is now a few sandwiches short of a picnic. \u00a0We sack doctors trying to help young people. \u00a0We browbeat parents into &#8216;gender affirmation&#8217;. \u00a0We allow adult activists to impose damaging hormone treatments designed to block puberty on children who know no better. \u00a0We allow surgeons to mutilate bodies and physicians to interfere with young people&#8217;s biochemistry. \u00a0And we do all this because it is politically correct.<\/p>\n<h2>Have you been on the receiving end?<\/h2>\n<p>Be watchful. \u00a0Gender affirmation is coming to a school, a church or a family near you.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a story to tell about how &#8216;gender affirmation&#8217; messed up your life, or how you overcame it, please get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Find out how to join Christian Voice and stand up for the King of kings (clicking on the link below does not commit you to join)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P1OVTZ-gb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3940\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Join Today!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Join_donate_Logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please note that persons wishing to comment on this story must enter a valid email address. 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