{"id":10953,"date":"2016-01-21T01:08:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2016-01-21T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:12:27","slug":"quick-takes-transgendering-the-child-transgendering-the-parent-transgendering-the-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/01\/21\/quick-takes-transgendering-the-child-transgendering-the-parent-transgendering-the-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Transgendering The Child, Transgendering The Parent, Transgendering the Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Pretend all you want, you can never change what you are<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3X4LQcZLzcU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" title=\"Eagle with Flag\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s all good to belittle the critical gender theory majors in college.\u00a0 But it is another thing to be anything but aghast at a three year old boy&#8217;s inclinations towards self-mutilation being validated by quacks and his own parents, as is the <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/12\/14\/cutting-off-a-childs-body-parts-is-no-prank\/\" target=\"_blank\">case<\/a> with Daniel McFadyen in Strathspey, Scotland.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A few years ago Daniel\u2019s mother, Kerry, came across then-three-year-old Master McFadyen attempting to cut his own genitals off with a pair of scissors &#8216;so he could be a girl.&#8217; Appropriately concerned, the parents of this young man took their son to a medical doctor, who diagnosed the boy with &#8216;gender dysphoria,&#8217; which Daniel\u2014now six years old\u2014describes as &#8216;[having] a girl&#8217;s head and a boy\u2019s body.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Daniel\u2019s parents plan to give him hormone blockers when he starts puberty, &#8216;until she [sic] is truly old enough to decide whether she [sic] wants to transition aged 16.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The doctors told the family &#8216;it would help to let Daniel live as a girl, so long as he knew he could change his mind.&#8217; This would strike any reasonable person as a demonstrably insane &#8216;medical&#8217; opinion, and one wonders why Daniel\u2019s parents did not seek a second or a third opinion, or a fiftieth one, if that\u2019s what it took.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But they did no such thing. Apparently they simply went with it. &#8216;My daughter is so happy now,&#8217; Kerry McFadyen says, &#8216;and a completely different child.&#8217; These are objectively false statements. Mrs. McFadyen has a son, one who has been approximated to resemble a daughter but who nonetheless remains male. Daniel\u2019s treatment represents little more than an abandonment of both medical and ultimately parental responsibility. He is, by any reasonable metric, a victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The major problem is that the drugs alter who he is so that he <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> grow-up as he would naturally, and he necessarily can&#8217;t be &#8220;born that way&#8221;.\u00a0 That he would be permanently mutilated, with no chance of going back, can endanger the child, as it has endangered others, and lethally so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" title=\"Eagle Divider\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, some parents want to have it <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2015\/12\/in-transgender-chestfeeding-in-new-mom-breastfeeding-support-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\">both ways<\/a> when it comes to their own gender:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Three weeks ago the Huffington Post published an article detailing the distress of transgendered parents who breastfeed, &#8216;The Troubling Erasure of Trans Parents Who Breastfeed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The article describes the way gendered pronouns and attitudes are excluding men who nurse, and the legalities associated with challenging the heretofore female-centric endeavor of breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In particular, women who have had chest surgery and now identify as men, described how they are made to feel unwelcome in breastfeeding circles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make up your mind!\u00a0 Do you want to be a mother who breast feeds or a father who biologically don&#8217;t have breasts that do not lactate (outside of rare medical conditions)?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" title=\"Eagle Divider\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But no one if forcing you to live like the opposite biological sex&#8230; unless you are a <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/2015\/12\/16\/christian-make-up-artist-sues-m-a-c-cosmetics-for-forcing-him-to-wear-lipstick-false-eyelashes\" target=\"_blank\">Christian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Married minister, father and makeup artist Barry Jones has filed suit against cosmetic powerhouse M.A.C. Cosmetics in a federal religious discrimination lawsuit.\u00a0 Jones &#8216;alleges that M.A.C. required him to wear makeup if he wanted to obtain certification to become a full-time makeup artist with the company.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The purported reason is to make the make-up artists understand how it feels to wear make-up.\u00a0 However:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Jones wanted\u00a0to become a M.A.C. trainer, but the makeup issue got in the way.\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0recalled telling his managers: &#8216;I don\u2019t\u00a0want to be pretty.\u00a0I just want to be a handsome man, do my job and leave.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Pretend all you want, you can never change what you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/01\/21\/quick-takes-transgendering-the-child-transgendering-the-parent-transgendering-the-christian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[65,55,46,69,48],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-gender","tag-kyriarchy","tag-quick-takes","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10969,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions\/10969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}