Male + Female = 'Shemale'

I can’t remember at what point in my childhood I recognised that I was a girl. Maybe it was innate: I just knew that I was fashioned differently from a boy – I wore dresses and earrings; I wanted different things like Barbie dolls; my anatomy was different too. Consequently, my world was and continues to be filtered through different eyes; processed through different emotions and inclinations.

Fundamentally men and women are different, and they are different for a purpose. Men bring reason and rationality; women temper rationality with human emotions. It is our unique differences that give us the balance we need for a rounded life. Consequently, it deeply bothers me when politically correct fanatics go all out to blur the lines between men and women. It is not just absurd, but disgusting when certain stories take centre page in the news. Here are some striking examples:

“UK man gives birth to baby”

 A British man who underwent a sex change operation to become a man gave birth after another surgery that reactivated his womb.

  

“Parents Who Raised Child as ‘Neutral’ Reveal The 5 Year Old Is a Boy”

 

A couple who raised their child as "gender neutral" for five years so the infant's "real personality" could shine through have finally revealed he is a boy.

  

“NHS (Britain’s National Health Service) Gives Puberty Delay Drugs To Children With Gender Identity Disorder”

Five-year-old boy Zach Avery

 The NHS is giving injections of ‘puberty delay’ drugs to children who believe they have been born the wrong sex.

I’m shaking my head as I rehash these stories because these are just a few of many that have been churned out of the coffers of morally bankrupt, PC gone bonkers opportunists. What on earth is the world coming to?

And as if that is not enough, we are all expected to have unanimous viewpoints.  Leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien has received a volley of criticism for taking a stand against plans by the British government to legalise gay marriage in the UK by 2015. I don’t know what critics are bleating about. He is a first of all a Christian, then also a priest. His religious views do not chime with gay marriage – obviously – why then should he support it? I am also a Christian and I do not support gay marriage. I love everyone, including gay people. I have worked with them and they are some of the nicest people to be around, but don’t expect me to bend my religious and personal convictions just to appear politically correct. Sorry love, no one is going to change me into a generic prototype. We cannot hold the same views, express the same views, and pursue the same views, even if political correctness prescribes it.

 Sex = biology; gender = social construct 

Here is how the madness all begins. A child is born either male or female – neither the parents nor the child has a hand in what sex they are. A girl is likely to be dressed in pink and given dolls; a boy dressed in blue and introduced to the world of chu chu trains and cars. Somewhere along the line, the boy begins to think, something doesn’t feel right.  I’m actually a girl trapped in a boy’s body. He doesn’t want chu chu trains, fast cars and other boyish things. He wants to wear fancy dresses, paint his nails and become one of the girls. He lives his whole life feeling abnormal. At some point he is so overwhelmed, he builds the courage to seek medical help, then slap bang – it all comes together. He is suffering from gender identity disorder!

This is how the U.S National Library of Medicine defines it:

Gender identity disorder is a conflict between a person's actual physical gender and the gender that person identifies himself or herself as.

Some symptoms:

Individuals

  Are disgusted by their own genitals

  Are rejected by their peers, feel alone

  Believe that they will grow up to become the opposite sex

Adults

·         Dress like the opposite sex

·         Have depression or anxiety

·         Want to live as a person of the opposite sex

·         Wish to be rid of their own genitals

 Signs & Tests 

The feeling of being in the body of the "wrong" gender must last for at least 2 years for this diagnosis to be made. A history and psychiatric evaluation can confirm the person's constant desire to be the opposite sex.

Treatment

Individual and family therapy is recommended for children. Individual and, if appropriate, couples therapy is recommended for adults. Sex reassignment through surgery and hormonal therapy is an option, but identity problems may continue after this treatment.

(To be continued)