THE ABSURDITY OF TRANSGENDERISM

LEELAH ALCORN

• Author only refers to Leelah by birth name, "Joshua".
• Uses male pronouns, "he, his", to refer to Leelah
• "Joshua was not a girl--he was a boy..."

MAIN CLAIM

• Referring to these confused youths with ill-fitting pronouns simply contributes to our culture's confusion around the natural sexuality of a person.

THE pROBLEM

• Problem: "No amount of surgical mutilation of body parts, effeminate behaviors, or artificial female appearances can make a man a woman."
• "Why think that what one “identifies as” is significant at all, especially to the extent that others should actively recognize or cater to such an identity, and especially when the identity one adopts is contrary to reality?"

ATTEMPTED EXPLANATION

• Gunther from Finland identifies as Sub-Saharan. Still does not make him african.
• 60 y/o Bob identifies as 16 years old. Still does not make him any younger.

CONT.

• SOMEONE WHO IS ANOREXIC BELIEVES THAT HE IS REALLY OVERWEIGHT WHILE IN REALITY he is dangerously underweight. We classify this as a disorder that should be treated with therapy.
• "Like the anorexic, the transgendered individual tenaciously holds to false beliefs about his identity or how or what he truly is: he believes that he is a sex that he is not"

Untitled Slide

• "transgender conversion therapy is a procedure that involves, presumably, an attempt by a professional to help a person who is experiencing a gender identity disorder"

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• In the genuine case of intersex individuals,it is perhaps an open question whether such individuals are either male or female or whether they should be encouraged to undergo surgical procedures in the interest of their health.
• This statement^ comes from the same article that says :"Insofar as such a surgical procedure involves the intentional damaging and mutilating of otherwise perfectly functioning bodily faculties by twisting them to an end toward which they are not ordered, such a thing cannot, in principle, possibly be considered a medical procedure."

HIS CONCLUSION...

• "How a man’s identifying as a woman will personally affect me, you, or John Doe is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether we will make public policy and encourage social norms that reflect the truth about the human person and sexuality, or whether we will obfuscate the truth about such matters and sow the seeds of sexual confusion in future generations for years to come."
• He believes that support for transgenderism would lead to a change of "social norms to reflect pernicious falsehoods about the human body."

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