Well, I suppose it simply had to happen. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has issued a report calling for greater public education on the subject of Transsexuals so that we can all understand this poor, persecuted community. In other words we have to know more about people who want sex-change operations.
Education about gender identity is crucial to both Trangendered and non- transgenderd people says the report Funny, I seem to have been doing fine so far without too much information on this, eh, prickly issue. The paper goes on to state that education is imperative because there are so many myths about the subject.
For education read clumsy and unbridled propaganda. That the report is based on a radical agenda is obvious to everyone. The only people who seem to promoting all this rubbish are those intent on smashing Gender differences and doctors who make a great deal of money telling mentally ill men that it's okay to want to have your willy cut off.
Some fundamental points. There is no such thing as a transsexual. There is no such thing as a man in a women s body or a woman in a man s body. There are, however, some very sick people whose deep mental illness deserves our compassion and care. Any man who wants to have his genitals surgically removed and some grotesque imitation of a female organ put in its place requires years of therapy and medication. Or, frankly, needs to put in hard weeks work fifty times a year so that he stops concocting neurotic nightmares and gets with leading a meaningful life.
Many of us indulged in fantasies at some time or another, usually when we were very young. Then we matured and put away childish things. I, for example always wanted to be a great soccer player, but I simply wasn't good enough. Surgery would have done nothing to alter that condition and surgery will do nothing to turn a man into a woman. These poor wretches will merely become monstrous results of weird science, walking examples of the triumph of technology over common sense.
I pity them, but I also oppose them. What they demand is wrong, dangerous and unnatural. That they also want public funding for such gruesome exercises, which the had until recently, is beyond belief. Next time I meet an unemployed nurse or an old man on an MRI waiting list, I ll assure them that they have to be more understanding.
The handful of men and women I have met who are convinced that they were in the wrong bodies have been profoundly messed up and have had a legion of painful issues with which to deal. The debate over which bathroom to use was in some cases the least of their problems. " Have whatever you want, it ll will all be fine." We should not be encouraging them.
This is particularly true because various groups are already making a good job of it. One of the web sites of the so called Transgendered Community tells us, among other things, that, " In the case of the owner of a penis, the discovery that not all humans have on occasions deep anxiety lest that delightful organ of pleasure might be removed. This castration anxiety led to a distancing of the owner of the penis from the caretaker who did not own one, presumably because the person might want to steal it. While simultaneously, the owner of the penis wishes to emulate the other caretaker who is by good fortune still owns a penis."
Oh, I see. No wonder a sorry bunch of men want to dress up as women, take hormones to remove body hair, grow breasts and insist being called Brittany when their real name is George.
This would be all very funny if it wasn t so very sad. For the people involved, for their families, for the taxpayer and for the greater society that doesn t know what is hitting it and why it is happening. Genuine love sometimes means saying, in a loud and clear voice, no, no and never.