A left-wing academic is breaking from her fellow progressives after she could not save her own autistic daughter — who has a functional age of nine — from getting swept up by the transgender ideology and then having her breasts amputated to “become a boy.”
“I am a lone voice in the academic and social work world speaking out against the [trensgender] transitioning of autistic people, what I feel to be both a crime against the disabled as well as their sterilization,” Dr. Kathleen Levinstein says. Her 19-year-old daughter is accepting massive testosterone injections to “grow a penis.”
Her authoritative and emotional opposition to the transgender movement’s willingness to recruit disabled kids has generated a backlash that threatens her accomplished career, her health and her savings for her impending retirement. It’s also earned her hate-mail and death threats, said Levinstein.
“My [autistic] daughter was wholly unprepared to make these decisions,” Levinstein toldBreitbart News. Levinstein, a clinical social worker now teaching at the University of Michigan, said cutting off the breasts of someone who is incapable of making that decision is “medical torture.”
Dr. Paul McHugh, who headed the psychiatric department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for many years, calls transgenderism a mental disorder that requires treatment, but not surgery. He compares transgenderism to the same mental condition in anorexics who may look into a mirror and see a fat person even though they are skeletal.
“I know … the tough spot of that fine woman and mother,” McHugh told Breitbart News about Levinstein. But, he added, “I’m not sure I’ve much to offer other than to encourage her … what’s really needed now is some organization of interested and concerned parents who want to look closely at all of the science concerning gender and identity.”
“Only a counter-force that is science-friendly — but not passionately advocating from poor science — will help turn this [transgender] craze around,” McHugh said.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
This mak s me sick. The show I am Jazz makes me sick. The kid is 14 and the mother is all on the bandwagon with surgeries and dangerous hormone treatments. On a
Minor. That kid should be taken away from the parents.
In this case wonder if the mother could try and get guardianship? Maybe not but worth a shot.
This mak s me sick. The show I am Jazz makes me sick. The kid is 14 and the mother is all on the bandwagon with surgeries and dangerous hormone treatments. On a Minor. That kid should be taken away from the parents.
In this case wonder if the mother could try and get guardianship? Maybe not but worth a shot.
I found the show I am Jazz, to be quite enlightening.
This child was acting as a girl from day one, it was heartbreaking for the parents and they went through, and still do go through, a lot of stress and mental anguish over this.
This mak s me sick. The show I am Jazz makes me sick. The kid is 14 and the mother is all on the bandwagon with surgeries and dangerous hormone treatments. On a Minor. That kid should be taken away from the parents.
In this case wonder if the mother could try and get guardianship? Maybe not but worth a shot.
I found the show I am Jazz, to be quite enlightening.
This child was acting as a girl from day one, it was heartbreaking for the parents and they went through, and still do go through, a lot of stress and mental anguish over this.
No, it's really kinda sick. "She's" all upset because boys don't want to date 'her". Yeah, honey, you are a dude...
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This mak s me sick. The show I am Jazz makes me sick. The kid is 14 and the mother is all on the bandwagon with surgeries and dangerous hormone treatments. On a Minor. That kid should be taken away from the parents.
In this case wonder if the mother could try and get guardianship? Maybe not but worth a shot.
I found the show I am Jazz, to be quite enlightening.
This child was acting as a girl from day one, it was heartbreaking for the parents and they went through, and still do go through, a lot of stress and mental anguish over this.
No, it's really kinda sick. "She's" all upset because boys don't want to date 'her". Yeah, honey, you are a dude...
There isn't a guy in that school or county that's going anywhere near her. They are probably creeped out by her.
This mak s me sick. The show I am Jazz makes me sick. The kid is 14 and the mother is all on the bandwagon with surgeries and dangerous hormone treatments. On a Minor. That kid should be taken away from the parents.
In this case wonder if the mother could try and get guardianship? Maybe not but worth a shot.
I found the show I am Jazz, to be quite enlightening.
This child was acting as a girl from day one, it was heartbreaking for the parents and they went through, and still do go through, a lot of stress and mental anguish over this.
I don't envy those parents or any parents of children struggling with this sort of gender dysphoria.
I feel less sorry for them when they feed and encourage their child's mental illness...
Yes because FORCING the child to be a boy would be better.
Absolutely. You don't support their illness. I just if they were attracted to dogs, I should support that too, huh?
I don't believe you have a clear understanding of this dysphoria, its not a choice. WHO would want to go through this by choice?
I do know of a person who is gay, his parents tried very hard to man him up when he was a child. It didn't work and only caused more problems.
I know quite a few gay people. And they REALLY REALLY do not like to be associated with transgenders. Being attracted to the same sex has not ONE thing to do with being transgendered...
-- Edited by Ohfour on Thursday 30th of June 2016 02:07:05 PM
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What is funny is that the people who bitch about this, also watch the show. LOL
I don't watch it, but I DO watch a lot of TLC. And there is a commercial on about it every 10 minutes. This week, "She" will be dealing with some sort of skin infection...
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I didn't write the article, I just read it. Want a link?
Probably written by the same idiot think tank that linked vaccinations to autism.
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a state of unease or generalized dissatisfaction with life.
gen·der dys·pho·ri·a
noun
MEDICINE
the condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex.
Funny how it goes from psychiatric to medicine with just the word gender put in front of it.
Any othere dysphoria is considered a mental issue.
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I don't envy those parents or any parents of children struggling with this sort of gender dysphoria.
I feel less sorry for them when they feed and encourage their child's mental illness...
Yes because FORCING the child to be a boy would be better.
Absolutely. You don't support their illness. I just if they were attracted to dogs, I should support that too, huh?
I don't believe you have a clear understanding of this dysphoria, its not a choice. WHO would want to go through this by choice?
I do know of a person who is gay, his parents tried very hard to man him up when he was a child. It didn't work and only caused more problems.
I know quite a few gay people. And they REALLY REALLY do not like to be associated with transgenders. Being attracted to the same sex has not ONE thing to do with being transgendered...
-- Edited by Ohfour on Thursday 30th of June 2016 02:07:05 PM
It IS however related to your misconception that IT IS A CHOICE. ...
Read lily's definition on dysphoria. It's always a mental illness UNLESS you put gender in front. Then all of a sudden it's NOT a mental illness. Funny how that one word changes everything .
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Boys have penises, girls have vaginas. How is this so hard to understand? You can't just be whatever you want to be, biologically.
Take it a step further and will never change, females have two of the same sex chromosome (xx) called homogametic sex. Males have two different chromosomes (xy) called heterogametic sex.
That won't change. Period.
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The OP is about a mentally challenged daughter being able to get a non life saving medical treatments against her parent's wishes.
Now, if the girl had cancer or continual seizures, I think we might have debate about who should have the right to decide treatment.
But this is not the case.
I have questions.
How old is the girl?
If she is over 18, has mom had the girl declared incompetent?
Who is paying for these treatments?
Who is going to make sure this girl continues the treatments for the rest of her life?
Who will pay for that?
This is about far more than transgenderism.
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dont you sometimes wish you could time travel into the future by 15 years and record an interview with some of these people, and then go back and show them what their future selves say?
dont you sometimes wish you could time travel into the future by 15 years and record an interview with some of these people, and then go back and show them what their future selves say?