No, Washington Post, you can’t memory-hole your support for trans insanity

No, Washington Post, you can't memory-hole your support for trans insanity

By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator

Christian Post,

No scientific evidence exists for an amorphous "gender" inside a person apart from their sex — no brain imaging scan, no blood test, no genetic marker, nothing. It's an entirely fictitious construct, one that psychologically dissociates us. Nor is a "body that doesn't match their gender identity" a thing. There aren't two parts to be matched. Your words here are predicated on the notion of a false, split self, not a whole human person. This is basic reality and basic science. It's not complicated. 

While I have a hunch that your editorial board op-ed wouldn't have seen the light of day had Vice President Kamala Harris eked out a win on Nov. 5, since you now appear to be pivoting with all this nuance, let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we?

Remember this heavily slanted article from January 2018 that was, for all intents and purposes, a cheery advertisement for pediatric gender clinics? Among the many troubling assertions in it, some of the most alarming were from Dr. Stephen Rosenthal of the University of California, San Francisco. His claims went unchallenged (except for brief, tepid criticism from Erica Anderson, a man who claims to be a woman, no less) when he said that puberty blockers pose a "theoretical" harm to bone development, and how youth patients in the clinic must "determine their gender" by age 14. What does that even mean? Also uncritically reported was how UCSF gender clinicians "anticipate a future in which trans women will be able to carry their own babies to term, thanks to medical breakthroughs such as uterine transplantation."

For the record, editors, "trans women" are men and they cannot and will never give birth, and anyone who attempts transplanting a uterus in a male body is committing a medical atrocity.

As one who has reported extensively on these issues and co-produced several seasons of a documentary podcast, if you're serious about delving into the truth, here are a few pointers. 

Come clean and admit that your coverage of these issues was one-sided and painfully biased. Ask tough questions of the activist doctors you relied upon and scrutinize their activities in many hotly contested cases nationwide. I recommend starting with Rosenthal and Olson-Kennedy. Those two involve themselves in legal matters of all kinds from contentious child custody disputes to lawsuits against states like Alabama that are trying to safeguard children. Talk to Ted Hudacko, whose son, as a minor, underwent a surgical procedure to implant a puberty-blocking device in his arm at the pediatric gender clinic Rosenthal co-founded, in clear violation of a court order. 

You might also explain to Katherine Cave why you dismissed her.

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