Conservatives are rapidly redirecting their anti-LGBTQ animus. In North America and Western Europe at least, opposing gay rights has become an increasingly toxic political stance: In the last decade alone, support for marriage equality has increased by almost 50 percent, and a record-high 59 percent of Americans now support same-sex unions. It’s clear that on mainstream gay rights issues, conservatives have lost the battle of public opinion. Consequently, some have adopted a tactic that hard-liners caught in unwinnable battles often resort to: Retreat, review, and find a new, weaker target.

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On the day that Kay’s column appeared, conservative radio and TV personality Laura Ingraham hosted Wente on her radio show. Together, the two of them continued their assault on trans children, with Ingraham arguing that trans kids simply “want attention.” Ingraham then accused parents who accept their child’s transgender identity—as groups like the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health recommend—of child abuse.

The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey reveals that transgender children who have been rejected by their families were nearly 60 percent more likely to attempt suicide than those whose families accepted them. Additionally, kids rejected by their families were 85.7 percent more likely to engage in sex work, 72.7 percent more likely to experience incarceration, 68.4 percent more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, and 20.6 percent more likely to contract HIV. Unsurprisingly, none of these statistics made it into Wente’s or Kay’s op-eds, nor were they mentioned on Ingraham’s show.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/08/14/raising_a_trans_child_is_not_child_abuse.html

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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Oh, well, if SLATE says so then of course.   So I quote Townhall and you quote Slate!  Bwaahhh..

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 Oh well. sure, if it's some conservative named Barber, so then of course....

Guess you missed this bit.

 Ingraham then accused parents who accept their child’s transgender identity—as groups like the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health recommend—

Ohfour wrote:

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A bunch a sickos trying to validate their sickness...the lot of them. Pervs...

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 Spoken like a true rightie.

Ohfour wrote:

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Spoken like someone that doesnt coddle perverts.

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 Agsin...soken like a true rightie. Can't accept any deviation from the norm, even if people are born that way.

PERVERTS! PERVERTS!

weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Spoken like someone that doesnt coddle perverts.

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 Agsin...soken like a true rightie. Can't accept any deviation from the norm, even if people are born that way.

PERVERTS! PERVERTS!

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 Then why aren't you accepting conservatives and "righties' who are born that way?  Odd.

weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 Oh no?  They are trying to ramrod their liberal gay agenda down America's gullet.

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 Oh no?  They are trying to ramrod their liberal gay agenda down America's gullet.

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 Yeah, they're trying to make you a gay!!!

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Spoken like someone that doesnt coddle perverts.

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 Agsin...soken like a true rightie. Can't accept any deviation from the norm, even if people are born that way.

PERVERTS! PERVERTS!

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 Then why aren't you accepting conservatives and "righties' who are born that way?  Odd.

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 Some of my best friends are conservatives. I don't run around calling them perverts.

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 Hahahahaha! Now thats funny!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh...

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 They want to use the same restroom as me. 

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 They want to undress in front of our daughters and pretend they are girls when they are not.   Not good enough to use their bathroom or locker room.  So, yeah, so much for your total bullschit that it doesnt' affect anyone else.  Liberalism is all about forcing their worldview on to everyone else.

weltschmerz wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 Oh no?  They are trying to ramrod their liberal gay agenda down America's gullet.

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 Yeah, they're trying to make you a gay!!!

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 They are trying to say that something is moral when in fact it is immoral.

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 Oh no?  They are trying to ramrod their liberal gay agenda down America's gullet.

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 Yeah, they're trying to make you a gay!!!

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 They are trying to say that something is moral when in fact it is immoral.

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 Morality is subjective.

PERVERTS!!!!

weltschmerz wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 They want to use the same restroom as me. 

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 They want to undress in front of our daughters and pretend they are girls when they are not.   Not good enough to use their bathroom or locker room.  So, yeah, so much for your total bullschit that it doesnt' affect anyone else.  Liberalism is all about forcing their worldview on to everyone else.

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 They ARE girls.

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By what measure?  Their opinion?  Their DNA?  Their body parts?  Their biology?  Oh, yeah, their OPINION.  Funny how science is your God, except when you simply choose to ignore it!  LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ohfour wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Hey, pedophiles say they are born that way. Jeffery Dahmer said he was born that way. I guess that makes it ok. Nasty...

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 There's that little matter of pedophiles and serial killers hurting others.

Trans folks aren't doing anything to you.

PERVERTS!

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 They want to use the same restroom as me. 

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 They want to undress in front of our daughters and pretend they are girls when they are not.   Not good enough to use their bathroom or locker room.  So, yeah, so much for your total bullschit that it doesnt' affect anyone else.  Liberalism is all about forcing their worldview on to everyone else.

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 They ARE girls.

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 They have a penis. They are boys. Maybe you should have taken biology. Because you are a girl in your pervert mind doesnt make you one...

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 Lol! In my pervert mind!

You're adorable.

PERVERTS!!

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Can't answer what? You DO know that even with male equipment, their brains are female, right?
I guess not.

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 Yeah, fvcked up pervert brains.

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Can't answer what? You DO know that even with male equipment, their brains are female, right?
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 Yeah, fvcked up pervert brains.

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flan

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Brain Differences Between Genders

It’s no secret that boys and girls are different—verydifferent. The differences between genders, however, extend beyond what the eye can see. Research reveals major distinguishers between male and female brains.

Scientists generally study four primary areas of difference in male and female brains: processing, chemistry, structure, and activity. The differences between male and female brains in these areas show up all over the world, but scientists also have discovered exceptions to every so-called gender rule. You may know some boys who are very sensitive, immensely talkative about feelings, and just generally don’t seem to fit the “boy” way of doing things. As with all gender differences, no one way of doing things is better or worse. The differences listed below are simply generalized differences in typical brain functioning, and it is important to remember that all differences have advantages and disadvantages.

Processing

Male brains utilize nearly seven times more gray matter for activity while female brains utilize nearly ten times morewhite matter. What does this mean?

Gray matter areas of the brain are localized. They are information- and action-processing centers in specific splotches in a specific area of the brain. This can translate to a kind of tunnel vision when they are doing something. Once they are deeply engaged in a task or game, they may not demonstrate much sensitivity to other people or their surroundings.

White matter is the networking grid that connects the brain’s gray matter and other processing centers with one another. This profound brain-processing difference is probably one reason you may have noticed that girls tend to more quickly transition between tasks than boys do. The gray-white matter difference may explain why, in adulthood, females are great multi-taskers, while men excel in highly task-focused projects.

Chemistry

Male and female brains process the same neurochemicals but to different degrees and through gender-specific body-brain connections. Some dominant neurochemicals areserotonin, which, among other things, helps us sit still;testosterone, our sex and aggression chemical; estrogen, a female growth and reproductive chemical; and oxytocin, a bonding-relationship chemical.

In part, because of differences in processing these chemicals, males on average tend to be less inclined to sit still for as long as females and tend to be more physicallyimpulsive and aggressive. Additionally, males process less of the bonding chemical oxytocin than females. Overall, a major takeaway of chemistry differences is to realize that our boys at times need different strategies for stressrelease than our girls.

Structural Differences

A number of structural elements in the human brain differ between males and females. “Structural” refers to actual parts of the brain and the way they are built, including their size and/or mass.

Females often have a larger hippocampus, our human memory center. Females also often have a higher density ofneural connections into the hippocampus. As a result, girls and women tend to input or absorb more sensorial and emotive information than males do. By “sensorial” we mean information to and from all five senses. If you note your observations over the next months of boys and girls and women and men, you will find that females tend to sense a lot more of what is going on around them throughout the day, and they retain that sensorial information more than men.

Additionally, before boys or girls are born, their brains developed with different hemispheric divisions of labor. The right and left hemispheres of the male and female brains are not set up exactly the same way. For instance, females tend to have verbal centers on both sides of the brain, while males tend to have verbal centers on only the left hemisphere. This is a significant difference. Girls tend to use more words when discussing or describing incidence, story, person, object, feeling, or place. Males not only have fewer verbal centers in general but also, often, have less connectivity between their word centers and their memoriesor feelings. When it comes to discussing feelings and emotions and senses together, girls tend to have an advantage, and they tend to have more interest in talking about these things.

Blood Flow and Brain Activity

While we are on the subject of emotional processing, another difference worth looking closely at is the activity difference between male and female brains. The female brain, in part thanks to far more natural blood flow throughout the brain at any given moment (more white matter processing), and because of a higher degree of blood flow in a concentration part of the brain called thecingulate gyrus, will often ruminate on and revisit emotional memories more than the male brain.

Males, in general, are designed a bit differently. Males tend, after reflecting more briefly on an emotive memory, to analyze it somewhat, then move onto the next task. During this process, they may also choose to change course and do something active and unrelated to feelings rather than analyze their feelings at all. Thus, observers may mistakenly believe that boys avoid feelings in comparison to girls or move to problem-solving too quickly.

These four, natural design differences listed above are just a sample of how males and females think differently. Scientists have discovered approximately 100 gender differences in the brain, and the importance of these differences cannot be overstated. Understanding gender differences from a neurological perspective not only opens the door to greater appreciation of the different genders, it also calls into question how we parent, educate, and support our children from a young age. 

 

Gregory L. Jantz(link is external), PhD is the founder of The Center • A Place of HOPE(link is external) and an internationally recognized best selling author(link is external) of over 26 books related to mental wellness and holistic recovery treatment. He is also co-hosting the first-ever Helping Boys Thrive Summit(link is external) on May 24th to discuss how brain science influences raising and educating boys. This article features excerpts from Dr. Jantz's book Raising Boys by Design(link is external).   

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hope-relationships/201402/brain-differences-between-genders

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Lol! What was the point of that tome? Yes, everyone knows there are variations between male and female brains.

Trans brains are DIFFERENT. Aren't we discussing trans people? The subject is not the brains of ordinary cisgender or heterosexual people.

Do try to keep up.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-something-unique-about-the-transgender-brain/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579234030532617704

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/01/26/scans-show-difference-in-transgender-brains/

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Medics are keen to find concrete physical evidence to help those children who feel they are trapped in the body of the opposite sex. One key brain region involved is the BSTc, an area of grey matter. But the region is too small to scan in a living person so differences have only been picked up at post-mortem.

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 But there ARE differences?

flan

weltschmerz wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Medics are keen to find concrete physical evidence to help those children who feel they are trapped in the body of the opposite sex. One key brain region involved is the BSTc, an area of grey matter. But the region is too small to scan in a living person so differences have only been picked up at post-mortem.

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 But there ARE differences?

flan

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Yep. 

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 Oh, I believe it, I was just surprised to see 04 post it!

flan

flan327 wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Medics are keen to find concrete physical evidence to help those children who feel they are trapped in the body of the opposite sex. One key brain region involved is the BSTc, an area of grey matter. But the region is too small to scan in a living person so differences have only been picked up at post-mortem.

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 But there ARE differences?

flan

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Yep. 

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 Oh, I believe it, I was just surprised to see 04 post it!

flan

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But there is no concrete physical evidence to prove that makes one "transgender".   Just decaying brain matter, which I supposed could be one of the reasons they think they are transgender.  The brain dies off before the body does...