http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/love-triumphs-across-the-line/2008/09/05/1220121526785.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Also in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herod was a totally bewildering article by Ms Adele Horin, in which she reports on how “the Australian Human Rights Commission has undertaken a project to investigate human rights issues affecting the transgender community.” In one of those bitter ironies that this age throws up from time to time, it seems that ‘transgender’ folk are a bulwark against the dissolubility of marriage; they are aggravated that they must divorce their respective spouses in order to, in Ms. Horin’s pompous and verbose terms, “have the sex on all their documentation reflect their lived reality.”
But as far as I can tell, what these poor, sick people have might be described better as a ‘lived fantasy’. At the instant of conception, each of us has either XX or XY chromosomes, and though I am aware that one might suffer from anatomical or hormonal defects, one is either a man or a woman. Gender confusion of the sort from which these people suffer is a grave disorder. I have sympathy for them, but I have nothing but contempt for the false compassion of physicians and the G.L.B.T. intelligentsia who would co-operate in voluntary mutilation rather than advising intensive counselling. (It is another great irony that while depression, anxiety and obsessive tendencies have been elevated to recognition as psychiatric disorders, the delusion that one is trapped in the wrong sex’s body is treated as perfectly reasonable.) Furthermore, what impact do these procedures have on life expectancy? Given that there is a correlation between other amputations and reduced life expectancy, what is the effect of these bizarre procedures?
I note also that Ms Horin is well-known as a feminist. But why, then, is she so completely uncritical of a lifestyle that amounts to identifying a woman as nothing more than a castrated, œstrogen-injected version of a man? Isn’t this transgender ideology nothing but a regression to the notion of a woman as masculus occasionatus (a defective man)?
Ms Horin concludes by saying that
Reginaldvs Cantvar
Also in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herod was a totally bewildering article by Ms Adele Horin, in which she reports on how “the Australian Human Rights Commission has undertaken a project to investigate human rights issues affecting the transgender community.” In one of those bitter ironies that this age throws up from time to time, it seems that ‘transgender’ folk are a bulwark against the dissolubility of marriage; they are aggravated that they must divorce their respective spouses in order to, in Ms. Horin’s pompous and verbose terms, “have the sex on all their documentation reflect their lived reality.”
But as far as I can tell, what these poor, sick people have might be described better as a ‘lived fantasy’. At the instant of conception, each of us has either XX or XY chromosomes, and though I am aware that one might suffer from anatomical or hormonal defects, one is either a man or a woman. Gender confusion of the sort from which these people suffer is a grave disorder. I have sympathy for them, but I have nothing but contempt for the false compassion of physicians and the G.L.B.T. intelligentsia who would co-operate in voluntary mutilation rather than advising intensive counselling. (It is another great irony that while depression, anxiety and obsessive tendencies have been elevated to recognition as psychiatric disorders, the delusion that one is trapped in the wrong sex’s body is treated as perfectly reasonable.) Furthermore, what impact do these procedures have on life expectancy? Given that there is a correlation between other amputations and reduced life expectancy, what is the effect of these bizarre procedures?
I note also that Ms Horin is well-known as a feminist. But why, then, is she so completely uncritical of a lifestyle that amounts to identifying a woman as nothing more than a castrated, œstrogen-injected version of a man? Isn’t this transgender ideology nothing but a regression to the notion of a woman as masculus occasionatus (a defective man)?
Ms Horin concludes by saying that
The commission has set up a "sex and gender diversity forum" on its website to canvass a range of views, and [Human Rights Commissioner Mr.] Innes will formulate his recommendations by the end of the year.I can hardly wait. And I shudder to think what might be in store after that.
Reginaldvs Cantvar
