{"id":9924,"date":"2017-01-30T14:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:16:50","slug":"bma-pregnant-man-banning-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/bma-pregnant-man-banning-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"BMA predicts \u2018pregnant man’ craze by banning \u2018mothers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Mark Porter, BMA Chairman, sorry, ‘Chair’, is responsible for its ‘pregnant man’ guide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The BMA predicted the \u2018pregnant man’ craze by issuing absurd advice to doctors last year banning the use of the term \u2018expectant mother’ in favour of \u2018pregnant person’ so as not to offend transsexuals.<\/p>\n

The advice was published in a BMA internal booklet<\/a><\/strong>: “A guide to effective communication: inclusive language in the workplace”.<\/p>\n

Gender-neutral<\/h2>\n

The document is grindingly politically correct. Doctors, it says, should strive to be \u2018gender-neutral’. A meeting has a \u2018Chair’ not a \u2018Chairman’. That one has whiskers on. So does “use the word \u2018partner’ instead of \u2018wife’ or \u2018husband’.” \u00a0But “\u2018parent’ instead of \u2018Mum’ or \u2018Dad’, and \u2018child’ instead of \u2018son’ or \u2018daughter’?”<\/p>\n

One function of language is to convey a precise idea. In farming we can refer to cattle but it is often useful to specify bull, bullock, cow or heifer. \u00a0Eskimos are famously careful to differentiate between fifty different types of snow<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What if a woman has twins, one of each? With no access to \u2018son’ and’daughter’ must doctors now refer to them as \u2018Child A and Child B’? How will a parent cope with that?<\/p>\n

The BMA veers off into the plainly fatuous. \u00a0It seriously suggests to its 160,000 members: “You can also mix up the word order in common expressions, eg instead of saying, \u2018men and women’, use \u2018women and men’.” There! That will deal a blow to \u2018patriarchy’.<\/p>\n

\"_87038297_prounous_practice976\"<\/a>Mind your pronouns!<\/h2>\n

The BMA is even worried by pronouns, previously the preserve of crazy university student unions<\/a><\/strong>. Doctors should \u2018use the term preferred by the individual’ even if it flies in the face of reality. A \u2018trans-female’, which it helpfully explains is \u2018ie male to female’, should therefore be referred to as \u2018She or her’ and never \u2018He or his’.<\/p>\n

\"Gender<\/a>
Gender politics is all over our universities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Similarly, a \u2018transmale, ie female to male’ should be \u2018He or his’ but never \u2018She or her’. Every UK newspaper slavishly follows that dictum already.<\/p>\n

Nor should doctors \u2018use phases that are reductive and overly-simplify a complex subject. A person’s sex is determined by a number of factors’, they claim. Doctors should not speak of someone as \u2018Biologically’ or \u2018Genetically male\/female’ or \u2018Born and (sic) man\/woman’. Perish the thought that someone is actually male or female. Now, in the world of medicine, people are said to be \u2018Assigned’ or \u2018Designated male\/female at birth’. \u00a0If doctors have to worry about\u00a0student politics will they have any time left to\u00a0practice medicine?<\/p>\n

Feminism runs riot<\/h2>\n

If it will come as no surprise that feminism runs riot in the embarrassing guide.<\/p>\n

\u2018Gender inequality,’ it moans, \u2018is reflected in traditional ideas about the roles of women and men. Though they have shifted over time, the assumptions and stereotypes that underpin those ideas are often deeply rooted.’ That’s because they are God-given.<\/p>\n

If it goes on: \u2018If it is common to assume a woman will have children, look after them and take a break from paid work or work part-time to accommodate the family. … However, such assumptions and stereotypes can and often do have the effect of seriously disadvantaging women.’ Only in the work place, silly. Not in the home. Stuck in a feminist mindset, the BMA misses the fundamental reality that women and men are not in competition. In the God-given institution of the family, a man and a woman work together for their mutual benefit. \u00a0They divide up jobs according to aptitude. \u00a0Watch my video on the ‘pay gap’<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

\u2018A large majority of people that (sic) have been pregnant or have given birth identify as women.’ If it does not matter how people \u2018identify’. Every person who has ever given birth has been a woman. But that is not good enough for the BMA:<\/p>\n

“We can include intersex men and transmen who may get pregnant by saying \u2018pregnant people’ instead of \u2018expectant mothers’.”<\/p>\n

Intersex pregnancy is very rare indeed.<\/h2>\n
\"Caster<\/a>
Caster Semenya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Intersex is a rare condition, affecting at most 0.05% of the population. Those sadly affected have a mixture of male and female organs. The South African athlete Caster Semenya<\/a><\/strong>, for example, has external female genitalia but internal testes instead of a womb and ovaries. If it is consequently very rare indeed for someone intersex to conceive and carry a baby to term.<\/p>\n

Intersex individuals should be approached with compassion and sensitivity. But that is not to say society should overturn reality. Caster Semenya, for example, is brimming with testosterone. \u00a0He should not be competing in women’s races even though he has decided he \u2018identifies as a woman’.<\/p>\n

The overwhelming majority of hospitals, let alone doctors, will never see an intersex pregnancy.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pregnant man’ is always a woman<\/h2>\n

The Sun newspaper has bought the rights to the story of Hayden Cross<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0It describes her as \u2018the first British man to give birth’ The only flaw in the story is that Hayden Cross is genetically a woman. She has the full set of female chromosomes. Naturally (in every sense of the word), she has a fully-functioning womb and ovaries.\u00a0She became pregnant by a sperm donor. That was a man.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Sun absurdly refers to Hayden Cross as a ‘pregnant man’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She has postponed \u2018gender reassignment’, which kicks off with massive testosterone hormone injections, to carry her baby.<\/p>\n

I am \u2018mis-gendering’ Hayden Cross, according to the BMA, but I do not care. The truth is: Hayden Cross is a woman. No amount of male hormone and no surgical mutilation will alter that plain genetic fact. She will never be a \u2018dad’ as The Sun ridiculously describes her. She will always be her baby’s mother.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the BMA guide and linking to Hayden Cross, even the Daily Mirror said<\/a><\/strong>: \u2018Some 775,000 women give birth in Great Britain every year – and there are no other known cases of transgender people having babies.’<\/p>\n

There is actually another woman, a mother of three, in the United States, going down the same path. Her name is Tracy LaGondino but she now styles herself Thomas Beatie. The Sun idiotically describes her as <\/a><\/strong>\u2018the world’s first pregnant man’. \u00a0Even the liberal Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong> is putting the expression \u2018pregnant man’ in inverted commas.<\/p>\n

So that’s one ‘pregnant man’ in the UK and one the US. The BMA is overturning reality and offending real mothers to solve a problem which is non-existent. \u00a0The numbers are “vanishingly small,” as the person cited below put it.<\/p>\n

Too much detail<\/h2>\n
\"'Freddy'<\/a>
‘Freddy’ with what appears to be a dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you do not like ‘too much detail’, skip to the next heading. \u00a0The BBC interviewed another ‘trans-male’ woman<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0She is the self-styled ‘Freddy who has been on BBC4’s Woman’s Hour. \u00a0‘Freddy’\u00a0has a testosterone injection every twelve\u00a0weeks. She\u00a0has already had a mastectomy performed in the States. \u00a0At the same time they gave her ‘a male, contoured chest’. \u00a0How much that cost is not stated. \u00a0Hayden Cross only got on with her pregnancy because the NHS would not pay to store her eggs.<\/p>\n

‘Freddy’ would also like to be a ‘parent’. \u00a0She objects to the term ‘mother’. \u00a0The surgeons have not been let loose on her internal organs or genitalia, so to become pregnant she will just have to stop the testosterone injections, wait for her menstrual cycle to kick back in and hope she is still fertile. \u00a0Stopping the testosterone, says the BBC, ‘ is risky for a trans man because it could lead to gender dysphoria’, which is a feeling of depression.<\/p>\n

A post-truth world<\/h2>\n

If it was the Blair administration which started the rot. With the Gender Recognition Act 2004 Parliament legislated a lie. A majority of MPs and Peers voted to allow any individual to go back to his birth certificate and falsify it. (Yes, our masculine usage does include the feminine.) \u00a0Then the Equality Act 2010 made transgenderism a ‘protected characteristic’ which had to be promoted by public authorities.<\/p>\n

Forget post-Christian and post-modern. Our elite are now living in a post-truth world. \u00a0In discussions about religion, it is common these days for people to talk about \u2018my truth’ as opposed to \u2018your truth’, let alone \u2018the truth’.<\/p>\n

Subjective truth does not actually work even in religion and doesn’t work in life and it certainly won’t work in a criminal court. If it is no use the burglar saying \u2018his truth’ is that he was in the pub and that his fingerprints being all over the house he has broken into are \u2018the forensic peoples’ truth.’ There is an objective truth the court has to agree upon.<\/p>\n

It is the same in the Courts of Heaven. And as we are\u00a0made in the image of God, playing fast and loose with the truth does not sit well with us either.<\/p>\n

The BMA can pontificate all it likes, but there will only ever be pregnant mothers.<\/p>\n

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