Media Myths of the
Homosexual-Transgender Agenda - Part II
Peter LaBarbera
Warning: This report contains some offensive descriptions
Walt Heyer is a former transsexual
who went through “male-to-female” “sex reassignment surgery” to become
his female alter ego (“Laura”). Heyer was not “born transgender” but
instead the childhood victim of some tragic circumstances - including a
grandmother who dressed him up in fancy dress when he was a little boy.
Walt Heyer published Paper Genders to expose his sex change regret and return to normalcy
Heyer cites the testimony of Dr. Paul McHugh, the Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who shut down the university’s “sex reassignment surgery” program after studying the outcomes of men who went through the “sex change” operations compared to those who did not. Wrote McHugh in 2014:
“Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as ‘satisfied’ by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery. And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs.”
Transgenderism harms children
Dr. McHugh saves his most devastating critique for those adults who would foist radical transsexual surgeries and hormone treatments on the very young and gender-confused teenagers (emphasis added):
“Another subgroup consists of young men and women susceptible to suggestion from 'everything is normal' sex education, amplified by Internet chat groups. These are the transgender subjects most like anorexia nervosa patients: They become persuaded that seeking a drastic physical change will banish their psycho-social problems.
"'Diversity' counselors in their schools, rather like cult leaders, may encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery. Treatments here must begin with removing the young person from the suggestive environment and offering a counter-message in family therapy.
“Then, there is the subgroup of very young, often pre-pubescent children who notice distinct sex roles in the culture and, exploring how they fit in, begin imitating the opposite sex. Misguided doctors at medical centers including Boston’s Children’s Hospital have begun trying to treat this behavior by administering puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous - even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.
"Given that close to 80% of such children would abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated, these medical interventions come close to child abuse. A better way to help these children: with devoted parenting.”
LaBarbera argues against transgender surgeries for youth like Emmet (formerly Emily) below, taking a daily dose of testoerone to bring on male puberty
• Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous. ...
• According to the DSM-V [the APA’s diagnostic manual for mental disorders] as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.
• Children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.
• Rates of suicide are 20 times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ-affirming countries.
• Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthy is child abuse.
Children of homosexuals & transgenders suffer
Homosexual activists rely on “gay”-authored research with sloppy methodology to claim that there is “no difference” between homosexual and normal, mom-and-dad households – and sometimes assert that “gay”-led parenting is superior to the traditional variety. But again, the facts suggest otherwise.
Writes Jamie Bryan Hall, citing the work of Catholic University sociology professor Dr. Paul Sullins, who analyzed data from the federal National Health Interview Survey from 1997 to 2013:
“Controlling for child sex, age, and race and parents’ education and income, Dr. Sullins finds that children of parents in same-sex relationships fare significantly worse than those of opposite-sex parents on nine of 12 measures of emotional or developmental problems and their use of mental health treatment. In general, children of parents in same-sex relationships are about two to three times more likely to experience such problems.
In his most extensive statistical analysis, in which he also takes into account relationship stability, stigmatization and parents’ psychological distress, Sullins finds the prevalence of emotional problems among children living with same-sex parents to be 4.5 times as high as among children living with their married biological parents, three times as high as children living with a married step-parent, 2.5 times as high as those with cohabiting parents and three times as high as children with a single parent.”
There are now many moving first-hand testimonies available from men and women who grew up in homes with homosexual or transsexual parents. See Dawn Stefanowicz’s testimony of life with her promiscuous “gay” dad, and Denise Shick’s story of living with a selfish, cross-dressing father.
Homosexuals & health problems
In every area of life, “gay” activists apply their egalitarian formula to posit a moral equivalence between homosexuality and normalcy (heterosexuality). But what Dr. Sullins wrote in 2004 remains true today:
Statistics show the extremely high rate of HIV cases among homosexuals
The Obama administration’s successful campaign to allow male homosexuals to donate blood has exposed how the LGBT lobby is more concerned about scoring another “gay rights” win than protecting our nation’s blood supply.
It is as if the many thousands of stories over the last few decades including those about the AIDS crisis – showing the high correlation between “Men who have Sex with Men” (MSM) and various diseases – had never been published. Consider these facts from the Centers for Disease Control CDC (emphasis added):
* HIV – In 2011 an astonishing 94 to 95% of new HIV cases among males ages 13 to 24 were linked to MSM (Men who have Sex with Men).
* Syphilis – 84% of new syphilis cases were linked to MSM in 2012 – effectively making it the new “gay disease.”
• Hepatitis – “New research shows that gay men who are HIV-positive and have multiple sex partners may increase their risk for Hepatitis C.”
Part of many classroom curriculums...
More than 25 years ago, Americans were shocked as “gay” activists and educators introduced children’s picture books like Daddy’s Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies to indoctrinate children into accepting homosexual behavior and “gay families” as natural and harmless.
Now a new generation of very young children is growing up with picture books like My Princess Boy (available at Walmart.com) that popularize and glamorize extreme gender confusion.
Unless citizens demand an end to the media’s incessant promotion of the “gay” and transgender agenda, it will be too late to return America to a state of sexual sanity, in which the health and well-being of our children is protected, instead of being undermined.