Unbelievable!
The British Columbia Human Rights Commission has agreed to review complaints filed by the Trans Alliance Society and a group of transgender and intersex individuals ((whatever that is).
This is their incredible argument: Doctors should stop assigning the sex of a baby after "a quick inspection of the baby's genitals at birth, when it is possible they may identify under a different gender or NO GENDER years later" Talk about the inmates running the asylum! I've delivered hundreds of babies and never had a problem. Ninety nine point nine percent had normal external genitalia. Normal means ordinary or usual, not strange or unusual, not too difficult to understand. Normal babies have a penis or a vagina and a male or female gender. The continued existence of the human race depends on this simple and obvious fact. How can these people be so stupid that they cannot recognize this. They are so pre-occupied with being 'politically correct' that they don't recognize the fundamental necessity of normalcy for the race to continue. Nature does not recognize 'political correctness'. These idiots actually want gender left off the birth certificate just in case it makes it difficult for those who decide the organs they were born with are incorrect. If we go along with this we are bigger idiots than they are.
The Vancouver human rights lawyer stated that it is incorrect to assume there are only two genders and that you can't tell a child's gender at birth, which is a "crazy making experience". Maybe she can't, I hope this woman knows more about the law than she does about medicine.
Let's hope sanity prevails and that we recognize that the minute number of individuals that fall outside the normal receive appropriate management and /or treatment. Let us not try to "normalize" the abnormal. If we try it will result in much wider suffering and alienation than we are dealing with now.
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In recent conversations with a good friend who is a paediatric endocrinologist I have come to have a deeper appreciation for and understanding of the heartbreaking decisions and often tragic consequences when children are born with ambivalent gender identification at birth. In one case I learned about an Asian family who simply could not deal with the negative impact of having such a child in their culture and abandoned the baby. Clearly in a moral society every step should be taken to accept people for who they are and not discriminate against anyone. That said, it is patently not reasonable to hold the gender of the vast majority of children who have no gender ambivalence in limbo pending a decision (when and by whom?) at a later date. The idea strikes me as absurd, if not criminal! Let's hope the appropriate British Columbia authorities come to the only sensible conclusion!
ReplyDeleteThe issue here is not to discriminate against anyone. It is the absurdity of attempting to reclassify the clearly abnormal as being normal. This is Orwellian.. As mentioned in the blog, these individuals deserve appropriate management or treatment
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