Insanity and the transgender child

I must have been around four or five-years-old the morning I decided I couldn’t walk.

There’s probably some scientific name for what was at the time nothing more than a kid’s overreaction to the very real fear of polio and the new vaccine in the news. Perhaps it had something to do with having a paraplegic in the home. Regardless, in my mind, at five-years-old, the paralysis was very real. To this day, I remember the frustration of trying to move legs that refused to budge.

Thankfully, my mother, recognizing the truth, fixed breakfast, put it on the table and told me it was ready whenever I was hungry. The paralysis didn’t last long. Closer to minutes than days. Food has always been a great motivator in my life.

I wonder how different my life might have been if instead of fixing my breakfast my Mother had carried me to the table. What if she had taken me to a doctor, who instead of telling me there was nothing wrong, gave me a wheelchair. None of this happened of course because back in the 50’s reality mattered.

Today, not so much. Some want us to believe that our sexuality is artificially created through association with family and friends. A quick peek in a human anatomy book proves that theory wrong. But even if it was so, how would it be bad to teach children to live in harmony with their physical nature? To do otherwise seems un-natural and potentially harmful. (Consider the astronomically high suicide rates, up to 50 percent, for young people suffering from gender confusion.)

Yet the craziness continues.

So when I saw this headline, “Court Rules That a Mom Can Transition Son into a Girl Against His Dad’s Wishes,” I got fired up … again.

The story tells about seven-year-old James Younger whose divorced Mother (a pediatrician no less) has decided that her son must be a girl because he wants to dress up like his TV hero (a girl) and his favorite movie is Frozen. According to the boy’s Father Jeff Younger, Anne Georgulas, the boy’s mother, started dressing him in girl’s clothes at age three, telling him monsters only eat boys and withholding affection if he didn’t act like a girl.

The court decision mentioned in the article apparently opens the door for little James’ Mother to begin puberty reversal treatments – a process known to cause sterilization. Thankfully, a second court has now decided the Father, does have parental rights to stop this madness.

When at his Father’s house James acts and plays like a boy, and, according to his Father, violently opposes having to wear girl’s clothes. When at his Mother’s house he plays and acts like a girl. Maybe he is simply behaving in a way that gets him the love of his parents.

This doesn’t even sound like gender dysphoria since James acts like a normal boy in normal situations. No, this is child abuse by someone who ought to know better. Even if James was confused (suffering from gender dysphoria) studies show that without treatment, nearly all (95 percent) of these children eventually grow comfortable with their birth gender.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not paranoid that transgenders are taking over the world. Transgendersim has been around for most of human history and will continue as long as we continue to treat mental illness as a choice. The transgender lifestyle is too destructive to individuals and society to ever be truly mainstream and even it’s current (dare I say) popularity, will soon subside.

Meanwhile, however, we cannot allow children’s lives to be destroyed by parents and doctors who are either too scared or too indoctrinated, to speak truth to insanity.

I have always cringed a little when I hear a parent say my child and I are best friends. Being your child’s best friend is fantastic as long as it is secondary to being their parent. This means teaching your child right and wrong and what is best in life, regardless of whether they “hate you” (temporarily) for doing so.

When it comes to parenting, I try not to be too judgmental. It is a hard job and we all make mistakes. But if the stories about James’ Mother are true, that is child abuse, plain and simple. And regardless of her possible “good intentions,” society should not allow a misled Mother to chemically or surgically destroy her child’s future in homage to an insane dedication to leftist gender theories.

If an adult wants to have transgender surgery or take hormones – go for it. While I feel it is validating a mental illness – adults are generally allowed to harm themselves. Children should be protected from such craziness because of the life-changing, unalterable effects. Our legislators need to support Virginia Health Boards, which have already banned conversion therapies for minors, by passing laws that impose legal penalties on those who provide hormone treatments or surgery for sex change purposes to minors.

To do less is simply … well, crazy!

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Greta and Global Warming

Greta Thunberg’s moment in the sun is already fading as the media turns toward the latest Trump/ Democrat fiasco. Greta, you may still recall, is the teenage girl touring the world berating everyone for not stopping climate change.

I feel sorry for her. Not because of her environmental passion, but for her paranoid fear and the way she is being exploited by the socialist left.

According to a profile in the Daily Beast, Greta Thunberg is autistic and has obsessive-compulsive disorder. She has nightmares about the impact of global warming on the planet, which she claims will end civilization as we know it in the next 12 years.

She is both troubled and misled.

“How dare you,” she told the UN. “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood. For more than 30 years the science has been crystal-clear … The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 percent chance of staying below… the risk of setting of irreversible chain reactions beyond human control … those numbers do not include … the aspects of equity and climate justice.”

Equity and climate justice? That’s socialist jargon. Poor Greta has been well schooled – at least in the politics, if not the science, of climate change.

And make no mistake, she is front-page news because of her value to socialist politicians, not because of her expertise in the science of climate change.

“Climate is not a separate issue,” says Senator Cory Booker. “It is the issue, the lens, through we must see everything that we do.”

Why is that Senator Booker? Could it be because you want to attach your unpopular socialist agenda to a popular desire to conserve our environment?

Senator Kamala Harris says, “It’s not a question of debating the science, it’s a question of taking on powerful interests, taking on the polluters, understanding that they have a profit motive to pollute.”

So, the issue is not science, it’s about finding a way to attack those who make money – and then expect to keep it.

I can understand why they might want to skip over the science. Over the past 10-15 years the “settled science” of man-made global warming has taken a real beating. They’ve discovered that global climate science is too complicated to be easily settled, especially after all the models used to make their outrageous predictions proved wrong.

Is climate change real? Of course. The earth’s surface is constantly either warming or cooling – and the full reasons why this happens is not fully understood. Does human produced CO2 effect global warming? The latest science says that if it does, the effect is lost in the significantly larger natural elements that clearly do affect global temperatures – like the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

And for the paranoids among us; only last year the IPCC admitted to having little to no evidence that climate change is producing extreme weather patterns.

Regardless, the liberal brain washing continues unabated, scaring the uninformed and treating predicted climate change disasters as fact. It may be the greatest purposeful fraud ever foisted on mankind.

And how does the left propose to save us from ourselves?

The answer, of course, is more government and less capitalism.

“We are a disease that is infecting our planet,” declared Jason Momoa (the star of the DC Universe film “Aquaman”) when he spoke to the UN on behalf of “all island nations.”

While he justifiably, hammered home the need for more care of our oceans and environment, he missed that by focusing on a fake apocalypse, we spend time and money that could be better used improving the environment for people around the world today.

Alex Epstein, an American author and energy theorist, points out that it’s the developed world, with access to clean available energy, that has clean water, clean air, and spends money caring for the environment. He writes, “Fossil fuels don’t take a naturally safe environment and make it dangerous. Fossil fuels empower us to take a naturally dangerous environment and make it cleaner and safer.

Yet during the climate change protest rallies last week, some protesters complained about society being too comfortable and the “dismal state of affairs” caused by capitalism. I wondered if the dismal state included the better food, the cleaner water, the safer homes, or the highest levels of personal security ever known in the history of mankind?

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center (a think tank dedicated to finding the most efficient ways to make life better for all) and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, and Prioritizing Development, a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, recently wrote, “While some pundits continue, incorrectly, to insist that global warming is a made-up story, far more insist, also incorrectly, that we face an imminent climate crisis.”

He suggests that with the trillions the climate activists want to spend uselessly trying to keep the temperature from rising 1.5 degrees, we could practically fix the world’s problems with unclean water, famine, and most disease. Perhaps from the millions of brains saved in this effort will come the eventual answers to climate change.

But I still feel sorry for Greta, and all those that have fallen victim to this apparently very real paranoia of environmental anxiety – for that truly is a man-made disaster.

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