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The Patriot Post Digest 9-18-2018
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The Left has made any attempt at rational conversation of gender and sexuality appear to be a symptom of the problem. If you are not in lockstep with allowing boys who claim to be girls to share locker rooms and bathrooms with your daughters, then you are a monster. If you do not support any and every woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted (well, except Bill Clinton’s accusers), no matter the evidence or lack thereof, then you are complicit in the crime. If you do not show reverence and preferential treatment to homosexuals, then you are homophobic. And if you are a man who is anything but a liberal squish who compliantly does what he is told, then you are exhibiting “toxic masculinity.”
The term “toxic masculinity” is just more leftist word play aimed at defining masculinity itself as bad for society. Glenn Stanton at The Federalist points out34 that the problem men suffer today is not too much masculinity, but too much passivity. “Masculinity is a trait, not a biological feature,” Stanton writes. Masculinity is a learned behavior that suggests leadership, the desire to get things done, to stand up and take action. Masculinity, by this definition, can also be found in women who still readily maintain their feminine qualities.
Passivity in men is the real problem that needs to be fixed. Men who have been raised under the Left’s new definition of manhood or men who have been beaten into submission by dogmatic groups have shrunk into the background. They fear standing up, they lack courage and assertiveness. A nation filled with men like these will not possess the toughness to defend us in a crisis, they will not have the drive to strengthen our economy, or the fortitude to raise the next generation of young men.
The damage being done by the Left’s war on gender is also having a devastating effect on transgender individuals. A recent study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics35 found alarmingly high rates of attempted suicide among teens suffering gender dysphoria36.
Fully half of all adolescents who are born female but “identify” as male attempted suicide. The rate of attempted suicide among those born male but “identifying” as female was 30%. And over 40% of adolescents who “identify” as gender nonconforming — that is neither male nor female — attempted suicide.
While transgendered individuals make up a tiny fraction of the population, these numbers still suggest that something is drastically wrong with the way physicians, school administrators, families, and the community are handling gender dysphoria in young people.
Rather than address this as a mental illness or offer the help teens need, the very same American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidelines37 not related to this study suggesting that parents accept the preferred “gender identity” of their children. The AAP also suggested that, in some cases, “gender affirming” health care in the form of surgical intervention or hormone treatments may be necessary.
This is nothing more than heinous child abuse behind the mask of health care.
There is reason to believe that the high suicide rates among these youths may be related to the very guidelines that AAP is proposing. Adolescence in general is a very trying time. Hormonal changes, psychological and physical changes, and the weight of peer pressure can create a toxic stew from which it is very difficult to make logical long-term decisions. Putting kids suffering from gender dysphoria in charge of such irreversible medical decisions is just asking for trouble.
Child psychologists like Dr. Kenneth Zucker who have suggested more cautious treatment of transgender youth have been fired for sharing their views. The Left has so viciously dominated the conversation that there is no room for sincere medical inquiry and debate.
In sum, men can’t be men because boys are told to be more like girls. Women, meanwhile, are told to be like men — or at least do everything men do. And those suffering gender dysphoria are told to be whatever they feel like. It’s time to put a stop to this leftist social engineering. Lives are at stake, and our society is paying an immense price. It’s one thing if these leftists want to live in a fantasy world of their own, but we must draw the line when they force everyone else to submit.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58310-leftists-are-killing-sex-and-gender
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Ocasio-Cortez Deflects on Socialism Price Tag38 — She’s unable to answer how she plans to pay for the huge cost of programs she advocates.
Air Force Birthday39 — Celebrating 71 years protecting freedom in the skies, here’s to our brave airmen and women.
Video: Kavanaugh Character Assassination40 — Bill Whittle’s intensity blows out his mic when asked about Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual-assault accuser.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Rich Lowry: “Character is usually destiny. It is no accident that the men taken down by #MeToo are invariably repeat offenders. Not only is there no other allegation against Kavanaugh, the assault charge runs against everything we know about his personal and professional life, as attested by everyone who has known him. His exemplary reputation, earned over the course of decades and a matter of public record, should outweigh a charge that is unproven and, as far we know, unprovable. The confirmation process for the Supreme Court has long been badly broken, a forum for sheer blood sport. If, based on what we know now, this accusation keeps Kavanaugh from the court, it will be a new low. The Senate will have embraced a new world where the existence of an allegation, regardless of whether it can be proven, is enough to stop a nominee and destroy his good name.”
SHORT CUTS
Upright: “We want to go through the process. One thing I will say is that as I understand it, Judge Kavanaugh spent quite a bit of time with Senator Feinstein and it wasn’t even brought up at that meeting and she had this information. So you would have thought certainly that she would have brought it up at the meeting — not wait til everything’s finished and then have to start a process all over again.” —Donald Trump
A can of worms: “The problem is that if Kavanaugh is confirmed, a (likely vocal) segment of the public will forever accuse him of committing sexual assault and getting away with it — and if Ford is telling the truth, he did. If Kavanaugh is rejected, it means an accuser can come forward after 36 years, with no evidence beyond her own account, and not able to remember key details, and ruin the life and career of a man.” —Jim Geraghty
Braying Jackass: “If the #MeToo movement has taught us anything, it is that we must respect and listen to survivors of sexual assault, regardless of the age of those involved or when the alleged attack took place.” —Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) (Juanita Broaddrick replied, “Well, Dick, do I have a story for you. Once upon a time Bill Clinton raped me.”)
Alpha Jackass: “Despite losing in the courts and in the court of public opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress [LGBTQ rights advocates] all have made. This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House. They’re a small percentage of the American people, virulent people. Some of them the dregs of society.” —Joe Biden
And last… “The establishment is shocked that Donald Trump won — but he won. He won fair and square. I don’t — this Mueller investigation, come on, let’s end it. Let’s decide. Come out and say what you got. There’s a notion here this guy should not be president of the United States. I beg your pardon? He won fair and square. He won 307 electoral votes. He is our president. Respect the office of the presidency. … I would hope he would do things different than he does, but … give the guy credit.” —Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58313-tuesday-short-cuts
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