Trying to have everyone believe that you are something you aren’t can have awful ramifications and outcomes especially when the medical folks have to get involved in this kind of way
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Doesn’t reality really harsh your Narrative at times?
(H/T: Powerline)
Sorry, having a degree in Biology tells me that women can’t get testicular cancer. Not even Mrs. Doubtfire. And neither can trans men (but I repeat myself). (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Transgender Tragedy: This Baby Died Because the Mother’s Medical Records Listed Her as Male
This week, The New England Journal of Medicine published a bizarre story. A “transgender man” entered a hospital with severe abdominal pains. Because she was identified as a man, the doctors naturally did not think to treat her for labor and delivery, so she tragically lost the baby. Rather than emphasizing the danger of placing gender identity over biological sex, both the journal and The Washington Post made the absurd claim that the hospital should not have ruled out pregnancy for a man.
This is absurdity taken to new heights – of stupidity. Are we really supposed to think that medical doctors can’t tell which sex someone is? And did anyone happen to have a stethoscope on hand and JUST MIGHT have heard two heartbeats? Sorry, I just can’t wrap my head around the idea, put out by one of the national Media outlets, that a man can be pregnant.
But SHE did bring this upon herself, knowing she was pregnant but for her case of gender dysphoria, refused to have her medical records corrected? Which means she probably hadn’t any pre-natal care either?
“He was rightly classified as a man” in the medical records and appears masculine, Dr. Daphna Stroumsa at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, wrote in the journal article. “But that classification threw us off from considering his actual medical needs.”
Hmm, did anyone of those white jacketed folks look “down there” and verify anything? You did, finally, give her a pregnancy test – what tipped you off?
“The point is not what’s happened to this particular individual but this is an example of what happened to transgender people interacting with the health care system,” she added.
No, actually it IS what happened to this woman – no agency in this by her? No responsibility? Or just throwing the “health care system” under the bus?
The Washington Post‘s Marilynn Marchione argued that this case should make doctors aware of the “blurred lines” in medicine. Citing the journal article, she claimed that the case “points to larger issues about assigning labels or making assumptions in a society increasingly confronting gender variations in sports, entertainment and government. In medicine, there’s a similar danger of missing diseases such as sickle cell and cystic fibrosis that largely affect specific racial groups, the authors wrote.”
No, there are no blurred lines in medicine and the sickle cell / cystic fibrosis add-ins to the story are just red herrings. The blurring is not the physical but the pyschological and carrying out an act that someone is someone else that they can’t be. And in this case, in the extreme – with a baby suffering the consequences.
…The Washington Post reported these words, “Moments later, the man delivered a stillborn baby.”
Political ideology over truth. Political Correctness over reality. Now, I’m not so sure who was stupider – the patient, the medical staff, or this WaPo writer (naw, the writer, hands down). First the writer and then the layers upon layers of editors and fact checkers and that line STILL got put into print???
In this, I agree with Tylor O’Neil, writer at PJ Media – note the “gaslighting” bit:
…The toxic doublespeak of transgender identity runs throughout the journal article and the Washington Post story. Marchione actually defined “transgender men” as people “who are considered female at birth but who identify as male” and wrote that they “may or may not be using masculinizing hormones or have had surgical alterations, such as womb removal.”
This kind of explanation is clear gaslighting. From the moment of conception, human beings are either female (two “X” chromosomes) or male (one “X” and one “Y”). Some people have intersex conditions, where their reproductive organs do not develop normally and many of them are sterile. This is not a “third sex,” however, as human reproduction involves one male and one female.
When a reproductively-healthy biological female identifies as a man, that does not make her a man. Unless she undergoes surgeries that sterilize her, she can still get pregnant.
Yet the embrace of transgender identity in medicine and in journalism has led people to make absurd statements, such as claiming that “men” have female sex organs and that “men” can get pregnant and deliver babies. This is lunacy. To be clear, some people have a serious condition of experiencing severe discomfort from persistently identifying with the gender opposite their biological sex (gender dysphoria). These struggles deserve sympathy, but it is entirely wrongheaded to embrace a false transgender identity in the name of helping these people.
…Accurate medical records cannot erase biological sex. Men and women have different health needs, and even when a transgender person takes hormones and surgery, his or her body is still impacted by his or her biological sex. In the case of a “transgender man” like this, doctors need to know that she is truly female — this can be a matter of life and death.
But it seems, the world is caught up in this because people won’t stand up and call it for what it is – a delusion and a baby paid with its life over it. Instead, this militant sexual identity political group is bound and determined to put blinkers on everyone else’s eyes to assuage their own beings. It’s one thing to parade around thinking one is a sex they aren’t but when it comes down to issues like these, the life (and in this case, the death) of a baby, that false curtain goes up and exposes the lark for what it is – a lark. Serious to those involved but it is acting as if you are something you aren’t. Life is not just one big Silver Stage (which is the ultimate in a fantasy life). Decisions have consequences – sometimes dire ones.
Now, a man thinking he’s a woman is home free – this will never be a reality for him. Further, testicular cancer won’t be either if they go for the really Big Snip – but that has hormonal ramifications of its own. In either case, the reality is that those suffering from gender dysphoria still suffer from mental issues that often lead to much higher suicide rates and other medical problems. And in this case, it will be compounded for the rest of her life in the loss of her baby.
In the end, this holds true:
The tragedy in this case is not “those bigoted doctors and nurses” but the prevailing fiction that this woman is “really a man.” Had the medical records not listed her as male, her baby might be alive today.
And no amount of “social construct-ing” can change that.
(H/T: PJ Media)
