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Ute Heggen's avatar

How about this, which is what, for millennia, has been told to children. "If you are a boy, you'll become a man when you grow up. If you are a girl, you will become a woman." In 1996, my husband of 18 years went to Stanford University Medical Center and spent 5 weeks having "sex-change surgery," in the terminology of the day. We were in the process of the divorce, as I never "tried it out," though he and his "professionals" pressured me to be like the wives featured on Oprah.

He and his "professionals" at that time did promote the idea that this is a rare diagnosis, and that it would be best to reassure our 2 young sons that they are boys and will grow up to be men. The tropes nowadays are quite different, and I fear for the psyches of "children of." The fact that my former husband's father was a repellent and violent man during his childhood was never explored. Hitting, beating and spanking children is not beneficial to their development. Neither is exposure to pornography or nutty ideas threatening bodily integrity. This nonsense will take a generation to undo; it took 2 generations or so from Alfred Kinsey and John Money (both child sexual molesters) to boost the pharma complex to where messed up young adults are paid indoctrinators, going into the schools, teaching "pronouns" and the American Girl doll company (Mattel subsidiary) publishes a book for girls in middle childhood in which they can read about becoming a boy "if you aren't comfortable in your body."

Ute Heggen (uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com for more on this last travesty)

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Frederick R Prete's avatar

This debate has lasted too long, I think. I don’t think it’s ever going to be solved simply by discussing precise definitions of the terms. Sometimes, people are just going to see things differently. We still can find common ground on the big issue.

https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/if-aneuploidies-sexes-then-two-headed

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