You are welcome to leave a comment to this local paper, it is disgusting article, in the Post Intellegencer (PI, in Paris TN). I left my comment and so far they have not approved it. I tell them i am a local when i leave comments. (these people dont like outsiders). ......Jake
Across the Tracks
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Did God really drop the ball this time?
JERRY BRENDA
`So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen. 1:27 NIV)
"He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man." (Gen. 5:2)
Then God dropped the ball — at least, recent articles published by the Associated Press, carried on National Public Radio and the Huffington Post would lead you to that conclusion.
According to the reports in these articles, about one in 10,000 children are born with brain functions of one sex, but are trapped in the body of the other sex. It would appear that we aren't all what we seem to be!
Most are labeled with "gender identity disorder," a psychiatric diagnosis. However, a few specialists have come to the conclusion there is no psychological disorder and these really are beings trapped in the wrong body.
"Pediatricians need to know these kids exist and deserve treatment," said Dr. Norman Spack of Children's Hospital, Boston. He went on to say, "If you open the doors, these are the kids who come. They're out there. They're in your practices." (NPR, Feb. 20)
Understand, these children are physically normal in all ways. They do not have issues at the levels where errors occur in the XX or XY assignments in the 46 chromosome. Persons who are born with these chromosome errors often will develop attributes of both sexes and may or may not respond to various types of therapy or surgical procedures.
An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, "I am boy," and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked, but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment." (AP, Feb. 20)
To accept the declaration of an 18-month-old child that she is in the wrong body and to allow this declaration to develop to where it is an accepted fact is truly a spectacle of non-parenting.
Even some medical professionals who view sex-change operations as a viable solution for a select group of patients warn, "Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents' motives need to be closely examined." (Dr. Margaret Moon, American Academy of Pediatrics' Bioethics Committee, AP, Feb. 20)
Play or pretending to be the opposite sex is common among very young children. But these children are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies. These children sometimes resort to self-mutilation, and often face depression and attempt suicide.
For once, the thrust of this column is not to draw a conclusion that is conservative or liberal. Rather, it is to raise a question that will generate different conclusions in the readers. Does the liberal atmosphere our children now live in where they are exposed to deviant behaviors such as same-sex "marriage" and glorification of a homosexual lifestyle fuel the increase in gender identity cases? According to Spack, his case load is now about four to five times as large as it was in the 1990s.
Consider that children are bombarded by multiple television programs which portray homosexual and even trans-gender lifestyles as normal, and the fact President Barack Obama refuses to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, down to the antics of Barney Frank who flaunts his lifestyle all over Capitol Hill. What effect do these types of influences have on the decision-making capacities of these children?
Which came first, the problem, disease, condition or whatever name is assigned to it — or the treatment by sex-change operations (which will end up being required to be covered under government-approved insurance plans) as a standard medical condition.
Will the Department of Human Services order faith-based organizations to provide "sex-change insurance" for their employee in the same manner that birth-control products and morning-after pills were mandated to be included?
JERRY BRENDA of Paris is retired as the long-time personnel manager at the former Emerson Electric plant. His email address is jerrydbrenda@gmail.com.
`So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen. 1:27 NIV)
"He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man." (Gen. 5:2)
Then God dropped the ball — at least, recent articles published by the Associated Press, carried on National Public Radio and the Huffington Post would lead you to that conclusion.
According to the reports in these articles, about one in 10,000 children are born with brain functions of one sex, but are trapped in the body of the other sex. It would appear that we aren't all what we seem to be!
Most are labeled with "gender identity disorder," a psychiatric diagnosis. However, a few specialists have come to the conclusion there is no psychological disorder and these really are beings trapped in the wrong body.
"Pediatricians need to know these kids exist and deserve treatment," said Dr. Norman Spack of Children's Hospital, Boston. He went on to say, "If you open the doors, these are the kids who come. They're out there. They're in your practices." (NPR, Feb. 20)
Understand, these children are physically normal in all ways. They do not have issues at the levels where errors occur in the XX or XY assignments in the 46 chromosome. Persons who are born with these chromosome errors often will develop attributes of both sexes and may or may not respond to various types of therapy or surgical procedures.
An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, "I am boy," and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked, but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment." (AP, Feb. 20)
To accept the declaration of an 18-month-old child that she is in the wrong body and to allow this declaration to develop to where it is an accepted fact is truly a spectacle of non-parenting.
Even some medical professionals who view sex-change operations as a viable solution for a select group of patients warn, "Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents' motives need to be closely examined." (Dr. Margaret Moon, American Academy of Pediatrics' Bioethics Committee, AP, Feb. 20)
Play or pretending to be the opposite sex is common among very young children. But these children are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies. These children sometimes resort to self-mutilation, and often face depression and attempt suicide.
For once, the thrust of this column is not to draw a conclusion that is conservative or liberal. Rather, it is to raise a question that will generate different conclusions in the readers. Does the liberal atmosphere our children now live in where they are exposed to deviant behaviors such as same-sex "marriage" and glorification of a homosexual lifestyle fuel the increase in gender identity cases? According to Spack, his case load is now about four to five times as large as it was in the 1990s.
Consider that children are bombarded by multiple television programs which portray homosexual and even trans-gender lifestyles as normal, and the fact President Barack Obama refuses to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, down to the antics of Barney Frank who flaunts his lifestyle all over Capitol Hill. What effect do these types of influences have on the decision-making capacities of these children?
Which came first, the problem, disease, condition or whatever name is assigned to it — or the treatment by sex-change operations (which will end up being required to be covered under government-approved insurance plans) as a standard medical condition.
Will the Department of Human Services order faith-based organizations to provide "sex-change insurance" for their employee in the same manner that birth-control products and morning-after pills were mandated to be included?
JERRY BRENDA of Paris is retired as the long-time personnel manager at the former Emerson Electric plant. His email address is jerrydbrenda@gmail.com.
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http://www.parispi.net/articles/2012/02/28/opinion/editorials/doc4f4d0b2e92df5214400317.txt
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