... that's where we are right now. Dig this.
The FDA recently added a warning to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists—known to most as "puberty blockers"—after having identified a serious potential side effect for some that may cause a dangerous surge of spinal fluid pressure in the brain, that can cause headaches, nausea, double vision, and even permanent vision loss.
The FDA identified 6 cases in females ages 5-12 years old who were diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri after taking GnRH agonists. Pseudotumor cerebri, also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension, literally means "false brain tumor" because the signs and symptoms in affected patients are similar to those of a large brain tumor. An FDA spokesperson said that during a review of the published literature for the clinical use of Lupron Depot-PED (leuprorelin), several research papers described the development of pseudotumor cerebri in children who had been treated with puberty-blocking medications.
Not to worry, we're in the clear according to a dude who has cut off his hangers and drenched himself in estrogen.
Biden Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: We need to “empower” kids to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery. pic.twitter.com/CRPRaFYtzK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2022
Wait, What?
Long-time friend, wcvarones, turned me on to this work of genius: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. In it, Carl posits that our ethical system has been blown apart by using internal emotions to determine the moral value of an act instead of an objective, external set of standards. Here's a good snippet.
Most significant for my argument in this book, they lead to a prioritization of the individual’s inner psychology—we might even say “feelings” or “intuitions”—for our sense of who we are and what the purpose of our lives is. To leap ahead, transgenderism provides an excellent example: people who think they are a woman trapped in a man’s body are really making their inner psychological convictions absolutely decisive for who they are; and to the extent that, prior to “coming out,” they have publicly denied this inner reality, to that extent they have had an inauthentic existence. This is why the language of “living a lie” often appears in the testimonies of transgender people...
This helps explain in part the concern in recent years over making the classroom a “safe place”—that is, a place where students go not to be exposed to ideas that may challenge their deepest beliefs and commitments (part of what was traditionally considered to be the role of education) but to be affirmed and reassured. While hostile commentators berate this tendency as that caused by the hypersensitivity of a generation of “snowflakes,” it is actually the result of the slow but steady psychologizing of the self and the triumph of inward-directed therapeutic categories over traditional outward-directed educational philosophies. That which hinders my outward expression of my inner feelings—that which challenges or attempts to falsify my psychological beliefs about myself and thus to disturb my sense of inner well-being—is by definition harmful and to be rejected. And that means that traditional institutions must be transformed to conform to the psychological self, not vice versa.
What all this means is that when an ethical dilemma arises, such as the question of whether we should poison and mutilate a child or, instead, tell them to get a grip and come to terms with what's between their legs, we opt for the former. Doing permanent, physical harm to the child or young adult is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is affirming their feelings.
No Room For Compromise
When someone like me wants to prioritize physical health and adherence to objective, biological reality at the expense of another person's feelings, I am, in fact, full of hate. I'm not being hyperbolic or snarky here. Since I'm not affirming the transgender person and I am disagreeing with their self-identification, I am seeking to directly harm them with my views. This is how we get to "speech is violence." If my speech puts your self-esteem at risk, I'm as good as a Nazi.
It's not about the trans movement so much as it is about a swap of moral yardsticks.
Although there a lot of things to not like about this, the thing I fear the most is that once they get enough people to capitulate that under age kids can choose their sex, there is nothing to stop them from saying that kids can also consent to be sexually active and pedophilia becomes a relic of the past.
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