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What Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, and YOU Should Know About Sex Change Surgery
Written by Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief on June 2, 2015

Please note this article was NOT written by Allen West. It was written by a woman. I was born one and fully intend to remain one for the rest of my life on this planet.

I am increasingly disturbed by the way our culture is being compelled to celebrate the choice of some people to slice off the bits and pieces of their bodies that God intended them to have but they believe they’ll feel better without.

This should not become a new fashionable trend. It is not “normal.” It is an infinitesimal percentage of our population. According to a study by the leading LGBT demographer at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law’s Williams Institute, only 0.3 percent of U.S. adults are actually transgender. Three-tenths of one percent. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...er-population/

Yet the LGBT lobby and its supporters are determined to make us accept this joyously.

Well here’s something they won’t be too happy about you knowing.

Walt Heyer, writing for the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse, says “The transgender movement began as the brainchild of three men who shared a common bond: all three were pedophilia activists.”

Here are the highlights of Heyer’s article: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/04/14905/

The first was Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who believed that all sex acts were legitimate—including pedophilia, bestiality, sadomasochism, incest, adultery, prostitution, and group sex.

Transsexualism was added to Kinsey’s repertoire when he was presented with the case of an effeminate boy who wanted to become a girl. Kinsey consulted an acquaintance of his, an endocrinologist by the name of Dr. Harry Benjamin. Transvestites, men who dressed as women, were well-known. Kinsey and Benjamin saw this as an opportunity to change a transvestite physically, way beyond dress and make-up. Kinsey and Benjamin became professional collaborators in the first case of what Benjamin would later call “transsexualism.”

Benjamin asked several psychiatric doctors to evaluate the boy for possible surgical procedures to feminize his appearance. They couldn’t come to a consensus on the appropriateness of feminizing surgery. That didn’t stop Benjamin. On his own, he began offering female hormone therapy to the boy. The boy went to Germany for partial surgery, and Benjamin lost all contact with him, making any long-term follow-up impossible.

The third co-founder of today’s transgender movement was psychologist Dr. John Money, a dedicated disciple of Kinsey and a member of a transsexual research team headed by Benjamin.

Money’s first transgender case came in 1967 when he was asked by a Canadian couple, the Reimers, to repair a botched circumcision on their two-year-old son, David. Without any medical justification, Money launched into an experiment to make a name for himself and advance his theories about gender, no matter what the consequences to the child. Money told the distraught parents that the best way to assure David’s happiness was to surgically change his genitalia from male to female and raise him as a girl. As many parents do, the Reimers followed their doctor’s orders, and David was replaced with Brenda.

By age twelve, David was severely depressed and refused to return to see Money. In desperation, his parents broke their secrecy, and told him the truth of the gender reassignment. At age fourteen, David chose to undo the gender change and live as a boy.

In 2000, at the age of thirty-five, David and his twin brother finally exposed the sexual abuse Dr. Money had inflicted on them in the privacy of his office.

The consequences of Money’s abuse were tragic for both boys. In 2003, only three years after going public about their tortured past, David’s twin brother, Brian, died from a self-inflicted overdose. A short while later, David also committed suicide.

Heyer himself underwent sex change surgery, lived as a woman for eight years and then realized his surgery masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems.

He describes the results of two important university studies, which determined surgery didn’t alleviate severe psychological problems, and there was continued transgender unhappiness and a high incidence of suicide after hormones and surgery.

But of course, the powerful LGBT lobby doesn’t want you – or people considering surgery – to know any of this. They just want us all to be welcoming and accepting and proud of those who take this brave step.

In fact you might not even know our MILITARY is now being forced to celebrate LGBT “Pride Month.” A reader sent me this photo of various memos posted at an Army base in Germany. One of them says “The dedication and contributions of our Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) civilians have had immeasurable impact on our National Security and the Department of Defense.”

Really? How exactly? You mean like Bradley Chelsea Manning?

And an official memorandum is being circulated which says “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proud to observe the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month during its traditionally recognized month of June…All managers and supervisors are encouraged to support attendance at events and activities.” You can see the actual letter here. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/
2014/05/30/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-aay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-mon ).

Here’s another little factoid that might surprise you. Take a guess at what percentage of the U.S. population is gay. Many Americans think it must be 25 percent. You probably think 10 percent is reasonable.

You’re WAY off.

Based on 2013 NHIS data published by the CDC, only 1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/v...n-or-bisexual/

I do not find homosexuality, bisexuality or transgenderism offensive. But what DOES offend me is the way being different – in fact being as drastically different as possible – is being sold as the new normal, which we must all accept and celebrate.

I for one will not be watching “Caitlyn” Jenner’s new reality circus show – not that I ever watched the one where he played the part of a man, either.

http://allenbwest.com/2015/06/what-b...hange-surgery/

Calling Bruce Jenner a Woman Is an Insult to Women
June 2, 2015 10:03am - Matt Walsh

http://www.theblaze.com/contribution...sult-to-women/

Parents, be aware: soon the magazine rack in the checkout line at the supermarket will feature this profoundly disturbing image of Bruce Jenner. The picture is plastered right on the cover of the next Vanity Fair issue, and it shows Bruce dolled up in makeup and hair extensions, posing in a corset, with parts of his face, forehead, and throat shaved off for cosmetic reasons, and his chest enhanced by hormone pills, Photoshop, and silicone. The idea is to make the 65-year-old grandfather look like a college girl, but the effect is that he looks like a distorted version of neither.

What he most closely resembles is a mentally disordered man who is being manipulated by disingenuous liberals and self-obsessed gay activists. Far from having the appearance of a genuine woman, he reminds me of someone who is being abandoned to his delusions by a culture of narcissistic imbeciles. I feel a great deal of compassion when I gaze upon this tragic sight — especially because post-op “transgenders” very often regret their decision, and in many cases attempt suicide — but few share my love or concern for him.

Indeed, Bruce admitted that after his “facial feminization” surgery he had a panic attack, looking in the mirror and asking, “what did I just do to myself?” We can only hope that these regrets don’t lead to further self-harm, as they have for so many men in his situation. I fear the worst, because Bruce is rushing the procedures so that his “transformation” coincides with the reality show they’re filming. Eventually the cameras will go dim, and Bruce will be stuck with what he’s done to himself. I pray for him when that dark moment arrives.

In contrast, the cheery headlines across the media inform us that Bruce posed for Vanity Fair in order to “debut his new identity.” In the interview accompanying these horrifying pictures, Bruce schizophrenically refers to himself in the third person, speaking as if he’s two different people.

He says that he hasn’t decided if his second persona will start sleeping with men, but he’s not focused on that right now. He’s just happy that, through extensive plastic surgery, high doses of synthetic chemicals, pounds of makeup, and a liberal use of Photoshop, he can finally be himself. By dismantling, dismembering, mutilating, and editing himself, he is himself, he says.

In one particularly depressing segment of the article, Cassandra, Bruce’s daughter, says that the two of them finally have a relationship. They “can just be girls together,” she reported. Cassandra apparently gave up on having a father, and has settled for a girlfriend to gossip with.

It’s just wrong. Disgusting, frankly. While I feel sympathy for Bruce’s psychological struggles, it’s selfish to do this to your children. First to take their father from them, and then to coerce them into dealing with such a devastating development in front of the whole world.

Of course, while his family takes the brunt of it, the mob trips over itself to congratulate Heroic Bruce. ESPN has even announced plans to give him the Courage Award. There was a time when this award went to guys like Pat Tillman, who gave up his chance at fortune and fame to sacrifice his life on the battlefield, but the honor devolved quickly from there. I thought it hit the basement last year when they handed it to former third string NFL player Michael Sam for achieving the remarkable feat of being gay while playing a game.

Shockingly, it turns out ESPN actually isn’t the most reliable arbiter on courage.

(Speaking of ESPN, last night, I turned on what used to be one of my favorite shows, “Around the Horn,” to hear their analysis on the NBA Finals this week. Instead, I was treated to a sermon from a sport’s writer about making sure I use the right pronouns when referring to male cross dressers. I’d really prefer to know how Lebron James and the Cavaliers are going to slow down Steph Curry, but, yeah, let’s have a transgender vocabulary lesson. Cool. Thanks, guys. You know, if I want to be preached at by humorless progressive gasbags, I don’t need the worldwide leader in sports. I have Comedy Central for that.)

ESPN isn’t alone. A search through Twitter and Facebook reveals unanimous praise, with “brave” and “beautiful” and “historic” being indiscriminately tossed around like so much confetti.

It’s all quite sad.

That said, I wouldn’t want anyone to accuse me of being critical, so what I’d like to offer, on this glorious and unprecedented occasion of a reality TV star’s Photoshopped magazine spread, are just a few observations. I’m not interested in levying baseless insults — which would still be far less harmful than the baseless compliments being hurled Bruce’s way — so I’ll stick to simply observing the reality.

Right now, there are five realities that really jump out at me:

Transgenderism Kills Feminism

As conservatives and Christians have run away terrified by the prospect of having meaningless words like transphobic tossed at them, it might ultimately be, in a strange twist of fate, the feminists who take down the “transgender” narrative. If they ever figure out that “transgenderism” is a direct assault on their entire worldview, maybe it will prompt a full fledged civil war in the progressive ranks.

After all, according to mainstream feminist wisdom, there is no such thing as a “female brain” or a “female soul” or “feeling like a female.” By the words of every liberal who has ever said anything on the subject of women’s rights in the past four decades, how you dress, look, think, and feel have nothing to do with your womanhood. Usually it would be offensive and sexist to accuse a woman of acting like, thinking like, or feeling like a woman.

Yet now, suddenly, emotions and looks define a woman so severely that a man can actually become one if he claims to experience feelings that he assumes are feminine?

The whole thing contradicts itself.

Feminism and transgenderism say two opposing things about what it means to be a woman. In fact, feminists have come up with the term “neurosexism” to condemn the misogynistic and “pseudo-scientific” idea that male and females brains are different. But Bruce Jenner claims he has “the brain of a female,” so how does this work? Do you mean to tell me that the only people who can have female brains are males?

Meanwhile, feminists regularly insist that the absence of a uterus and a vagina excludes men from having an opinion about things like abortion. So a man can’t have ideas about women’s issues because he lacks the correct anatomy, but he can actually be a woman despite lacking the correct anatomy?

How does that make any kind of sense?

Transgenderism and feminism cannot coexist. Progressives can’t have both.

They’ll just have to choose.

For my part, I agree that a man can never lay claim to womanhood. I also agree that there is such a thing as a female brain and a female soul — and by extension female emotions and female personalities and female characteristics — but the trouble is that female brains and souls are always contained securely in female bodies. A man will never be born with a sloth’s heart or a rhino’s liver or a birch tree’s root system, just as he will never be born with a woman’s brain.

I’m told that white people appropriate black culture when they listen to Nikki Minaj or wear flat brimmed hats. I’m not sure that such offenses constitute cultural theft as much as they indicate possible brain damage, but that’s not the point. If we’re worried about groups appropriating from other groups, I think we need to investigate the practice of calling a man a woman because he grinds down his forehead, wears eyeliner, and pins back his genitals. If you look closely, you might find reason to consider this an appropriation of womanhood, or worse, a degradation of it.

There is more to being a woman than “feminized” facial features and frilly underwear. Bruce Jenner in drag is not beautiful. Women are beautiful because they are women. Womanhood is itself beautiful. Women bring something distinct and special to the world. They fill a void and play a role that no man can.

A woman is a woman not merely because of whatever cosmetic feature a man might vaguely emulate. A woman is a woman because of her biology, which Bruce does not share and never will. A woman is a woman because of her capacity to create life and harbor it in her body until birth, which Bruce cannot do. A woman is a woman because of her soul, her mind, her perspective, her experiences, and her unique way of thinking, of loving, and of being — all things Bruce can only mimic.

A woman is a woman. She has earned that title. She pays for that title. She suffers with that title and gives life with that title and lives from conception until death and beyond with that title. She is that title. She should not be told that it’s such a flimsy thing that a man with enough money can buy his way into it. It’s demeaning and reductive, and as a father and a husband and a son and a brother, I take exception to it. I can only imagine how women might feel if they were only allowed to be open about it.

And notice I said I “can only imagine,” because that’s all I can do. I cannot experience a woman’s thoughts or feelings due to the fact that I am not one.

Neither is Bruce.

Identity Is Not In the Eye of the Beholder

I’ll be honest, I don’t like TheBlaze’s headline on this story, and I don’t like any of the other headlines in any other publication.

“Bruce Jenner Unveils New Female Self”

Um. What?

You don’t get to have a “new” self or another self or a different self or a Self 2.0. Your self is your self. It’s your being. It’s your essential personhood; your particular and unrepeated character. Your self is your body, mind, and soul. It is physically, metaphysically, spiritually, philosophically, scientifically, rationally and logically impossible for a self to change into a new self. A self can only be what it is.

"Jenner Debuts New Identity”

“Bruce Jenner World Premiers New Soul”

We’re talking about a sex change like it’s an Apple product. With this kind of language, we have not only made the self mutable, we’ve also commodified it and turned it into a spectacle that can be sold for profit. This is a bastardization of our humanity on a scale and to a degree that wouldn’t have even crossed the tortured minds of last century’s most prophetic social critics.

It’s all so evil and so bizarre and so unthinkably ridiculous that no dystopian sci-fi writer could have predicted that the collapse of western society would look like this. Right now Orwell and Huxley are looking on in deep regret. “Man! An apocalyptic future where people are so pampered, conceited, and bored that they pretend they can snap their fingers and reconstruct their soul from scratch — why didn’t I think of that?”

There is Nothing Authentic About This Version of Bruce

After many years and at least a dozen viral Dove marketing campaigns, it seems that, for the sake of the gay agenda, we’ve utterly abandoned the whole “women shouldn’t be Photoshopped or plastered with makeup and silicone in order to reinforce a subjective standard of femininity” thing. Perhaps the one single thing liberals were actually right about has now been tossed into the garbage because it doesn’t serve the gay/”transgender” narrative.

I mean, you can’t very well return to lauding the “natural beauty” of women after you just called Bruce “brave” for using digital and cosmetic enhancements to attain some shallow approximation of it. You can’t lambaste the modeling industry for trimming, slimming, snipping, cutting, painting, and operating on women for the sake of physical allure after you just got finished telling us that Bruce achieved his “true identity” through the same methods.

GLAAD applauded Bruce for being his “authentic self.” Tragically, they weren’t trying to be ironic. A digitally modified, cosmetically altered, manipulatively posed, chemically tampered with, basically cartoon image on a magazine cover is now authentic, according to the terminally dishonest folks in the gay and lesbian activist camp.

Authentic, for God’s sake. Do I even have to explain why that word is inappropriate in this context?


That picture was literally the definition of inauthentic. If it wasn’t inauthentic, then nothing is. And certainly you couldn’t call a legitimately attractive Actual Woman “fake” for a few touched up photos meant to augment what’s already there, when Bruce doesn’t get the label despite the elaborate surgical producers conducted on his face, the absurd amount of make up, and the fact that he had to hide his hands and tuck his penis between his legs to distract from what isn’t there. If that’s “authentic” then I guess I can slop some Kraft Mac and Cheese in a bowl and call it authentic Italian cuisine, and Taylor Swift can make dance songs about breaking up with her boyfriend and call it “authentic” country music.

The Battle for Reality

I’ll be told, especially by many conservatives, to leave this alone and find something more important to talk about. But millions and millions and millions of people — both in the media and outside of it — have said far more about this topic and demonstrated a much greater interest in it than I ever have, yet they’re never instructed to shut up and move on. While conservatives justify their miserable cowardice by insisting that it’s just an irrelevant sideshow and they’re simply too wrapped up in more serious matters to pay it any mind, you’ll notice that progressives treat “transgenderism” as one of the most important cultural frontiers.

Any time a transgender person uses the bathroom these days, progressives throw a parade like the the Allies just defeated Germany.

Bruce Jenner posing in women’s underpants was headline news across the country. The White House called it “brave” and “powerful.” The President of the United States of America, leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, came out publicly to hail Bruce’s “courage” for having fake breasts and waxed legs. It was the number one trending story on every social media platform. Bruce Jenner’s “female” alter ego got over a million Twitter followers in four hours.

Everyone is acting it like it’s a big deal.
As long as they have the “correct” opinion, they’re allowed to.

And they’re right — it is a big deal.

This is a battle for reality, people. Get your heads in the game.

If progressives can wield the power to demolish and remake even the definition of “man” and “woman” in their ideological image, then they have achieved a total and irreversible cultural victory. They have reached into the universe and reshaped reality itself. They have become gods, or at least that’s the kind of power we give them. You can blab on and on about economics and foreign policy, but if we live in a country where confusion, perversion, and self-worship reign supreme, what’s the point? America will already be dead.



We All Know the Truth

Last question for the people — particularly straight men — who claim there is no real distinction between a “transgender” woman and a real woman: Would you marry a woman who used to be a man? Would you look at this “former” man and think, “I want to make him my wife?”

Answer: No. You wouldn’t. You won’t. And you know it. Instinctively, when it comes down to it, where your life and love are concerned, you recognize the difference between a biological woman in all her glory, and a castrated man in all his derangement. I’m spending thousands of words convincing you of something you know. And I know you know it. And everyone knows that everyone knows it.

So why are we still having this conversation?

That I don’t know. But as long as it continues, I’ll keep reminding you of the things you already know, because someone has to.

Bruce Jenner is not a woman in any sense or to any extent.

And you already knew that.

http://www.theblaze.com/contribution...sult-to-women/

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A man who gets fake breasts, has his penis removed, grows his hair out, takes hormone pills, and calls himself Caitlynn is somehow magically changed into a woman. Nope. Makes ZERO sense.

He still says he is attracted to women, yet he gets to use women’s restrooms. A straight man with short hair and a penis who walks into a women’s restroom likely gets arrested. Or at the least gets himself broadcast as a pervert…but “Caitlynn”…nah “she’s” fine to come into women’s restrooms!

If I were to completely tattoo myself, split my tongue, get implants in my face, eat only bugs and small rodents and have a tail sowed on, will I be allowed to call myself a lizard? Will there be legislation to have me legally recognized as a lizard which will then bring into question my ability to be married to a human since, if I am a lizard, marrying and engaging in relations with humans would then be considered bestiality so we’d have to revisit the legality of bestiality…

None of that would happen, WHY? Because the genetics – the DNA – says “No, you’re a human, you doofus!”

The same goes for inside of our human species – Bruce Jenner’s DNA still says MALE. That will never change, and to think that we can disguise a human male as a human female and call it a full-blown female is so ridiculously silly it’s mind boggling.

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Bruce Jenner’s genetic make up is that of a normal human male of our species. He has to take drugs to suppress that normal state for the rest of his life.

Liberals are slowly trying to diminish the role of women in our society and our species. They’re needed for breeding unless science can replace them for that. The progs want to take the value of women away from soceity. Oh of course…they’ll deny this very passionately and laugh at anyone that attempts to even suggest it…but their actions speak much louder than their words.

Look at the homosexual situation right now…to maintain their veneer of normalcy they require the use of children as accessories. To attain them they need to be negotiated and purchased through a third party. This isn’t an exception for them like it is for infertile couples, this is cold hard fact for them. So women are needed to produce babies…nothing more…hence a surrogate is purchased and a child is denied at least 50% of it’s heritage as a result.
Do think homosexuals call heterosexuals “breeders” as a sign of affection?

Similarly…Bruce Jenner takes drugs for the rest of his life to suppress his normal male state, butchers his body and wears female clothes and make up and the progs say “behold here is a woman”. Really? Is that all a woman is to progs? Dresses and makeup?


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“If I were to completely tattoo myself, split my tongue, get implants in my face, eat only bugs and small rodents and have a tail sewn on, will I be allowed to call myself a lizard? ”

I don’t exactly see how it serves your argument to so blatantly and foolishly confuse gender for species….

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Bruce can cut off parts, add parts, and call himself whatever he wants, but as long as he still has Y chromosomes he’s a DUDE, like it or not!

Matt, you nailed it!

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And if he’s happier for having done so, why do you a give a rat’s ass?

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Well Jackie…it’s because progs want to force us (soceity) to believe that Bruce Jenner is a woman. He clearly is not. Genetically he’s a normal human male. He mangled himself and wears womens’ clothing and make up and takes drugs for the rest of his life to suppress the normal state of his body. He’s not a woman despite his entreaties to be addressed as one because a woman has more worth than hair and breasts and dresses. But this is lost on you?

We “give a rat’s ass” because YOU progs want to tell us that from this point forward Bruce Jenner is a woman when clearly he is not.

Would you give a rat’s ass if you were being told to accept what you know is clearly not the case?

You see…Bruce Jenner as an adult in a free society can do to himself as he pleases, he can mangle himself to his heart’s content and call himself anything he wants to call himself that part we don’t give a rat’s ass about. But don’t demand of the entire culture that we all now have to accept his delusions as our truth. Do you see now why we “give a rat’s ass” champ?

5 Ways To Not Be A Dick About Caitlyn Jenner
Myka Fox - 12 hours ago

1. Use the correct pronouns "she" and "her"

By appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair and asking for everyone to call her Caitlyn, Jenner announced she was a woman. Bruce was a "he" yesterday. Caitlyn is a "she" today. It's really that simple, and continuing to use male pronouns for her is making the statement "I reject you." AKA, using the wrong pronouns makes you a dick.

In the few hours that Caitlyn has joined Twitter, Voactiv has found that "people are generally using the correct gendered pronoun when mentioning Caitlyn’s official Twitter account... 1,179 tweeters used “she,” compared to 176 who used 'he.'"

So everyone is pretty much on board, you can be too.

And if the whole thing is not cool with you, it's totally fine to just not talk about her at all.


2. Don't ask if thinking she is hot makes you gay

If one person living her life honestly makes you gay, then you were always gay. Congratulations on discovering who you really are.


3. Compare her to other women

It's awesome that Jessica Lange is into the comparison (if she really is, when The Daily Beast interviewed her, they had to explain what "trending" meant, and Lange had not yet seen the VF cover), but in general it's pretty rude to compare any woman to another woman.


4. Don't throw a tantrum over the definition of "hero"


There are a lot of ways someone can be inspirational. Hero is just a word that some people are using.

It's fair to say that announcing on an international scale that she is a woman when most people saw her as a man is a brave act.

Either that, or people just think Caitlyn would make a really great sandwich.


5. Just try.

Trans people didn't choose to be trans, they just are.

We as humans are a lot stranger than we really acknowledge. Did you know that as we gestate in the womb we all start with female organs? Did you know that one in 2,000 people in the world have intersex organs (organs that doctors can't immediately identify as being either male or female)? That means there are more people on this planet with non-specific sex organs than there are Jews.

The point is, you never really know whats going on in someone's pants even if they totally look like a man or a woman, so you just have to accept what people tell you they are.

Caitlyn Jenner is telling you she is a woman, so just try not to be a dick about it.

http://distractify.com/Myka-Fox/just...a-dick/?ts_pid

I would just prefer not to have this forced down my throat. Jenner's personal business just THAT personal & private - and should stay that way.

I do object to the statement :

Bruce was a "he" yesterday. Caitlyn is a "she" today. It's really that simple,

Jenner's DNA is male. If tomorrow Jenner wants to "go back" and be a guy ... that's okay? Is the next step surgery to "become" a cat ? My son wanted to become a dolphin when he was small - do I tell him this is now ann option ?

I don't care, I didn't care when she was Bruce Jenner I don't care now that she's Caitlyn Jenner, can we just stop giving the Kardashians and everyone involved with them attention please?! They're not deserving of any cause not a single one of em are important to the massive problems this society faces today! Holy Damn! Get over it and move on!

Jon Stewart Made a Brilliant Point About Caitlyn Jenner That Nobody's Talking About
By Jon Levine June 03, 2015

Jon Stewart added his name to the mix of media personalities reacting to Caitlyn Jenner's breakout photo and cover story on Vanity Fair.

The Daily Show host began his segment Tuesday with a bit of misdirection, leading viewers to think his take was going to be about the media's transphobia, and while some of the usual suspects were predictably horrible, Stewart wrapped up a montage of major media figures mostly praising Jenner's decision and commending her bravery.

Then, however, Stewart went to the point:

"It's really heartening to see that everyone is willing to not only accept Caitlyn Jenner as a woman, but to waste no time in treating her like a woman."

What followed next was a montage of commentators remarking on her appearance, and while the praise was gushing and widespread, it became increasingly objectifying as the segment went on. Other montages dissected whether she had used makeup or Photoshop and reminded viewers that, at 65, Jenner was already quite old for this sort of attention. The message was clear.

"Caitlyn, when you were a man, we could talk about your athleticism, your business acumen, but now you are a woman your looks are all that anyone cares about..."

"You take away the makeup and the corset and I don't anybody who'd want to bang her..."

Stewart's brief segment pointed out the other transition Jenner has already undergone. Far from just a changing physical appearance, becoming a woman in America brings its own set of complicated baggage. Gawking comments from the media are only the tip of the iceberg of Jenner's new life.

As a woman, Jenner can now look forward to her physical appearance, not her talents or mind, being the object of daily scrutiny. Should she ever need to work, she can look forward to earning roughly 77% of what a man makes. Should she ever face physical or sexual violence, she, not her attacker, will be treated with suspicion. As a woman, Jenner will also have to get used to hearing not just new pronouns but other fun words like "shrill," "nagging," "bossy" and "emotional." And then, of course, there's the catcalling, which a "beautiful" woman like Jenner can now expect daily.

A person transitioning to live as her true self is a wonderful thing and America has come a long way toward accepting transgender people. As Stewart so aptly pointed out, though, the real struggle now is to bring up the lives of all women. On that front, there are still miles to go.


http://mic.com/articles/120033/jon-s...-talking-about

14-Year-Old Trans Activist Kyler Prescott Commits Suicide
May 26, 2015 ● by Joe Ehrman-Dupre

Earlier this month, 14-year-old Kyler Prescott—a pianist, poet, student, and trans activist—took his own life. He is reportedly the third transgender youth to commit suicide in the San Diego area since March.

By all accounts Prescott came from a supportive family—his parents even offered to remove old family photos of him from before he transitioned.

“”Some teens when they come out, they come out and that’s it. Other teens tend to flow between the genders,” noted family friend Kathie Moehlig. “He chose male pronouns, but was completely comfortable with the family still having all the pictures up of his childhood. Because in Kyler’s world a guy can wear a dress.”

He did struggle in certain aspects of his life, particularly with being misgendered and going through the changes associated with puberty, but the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News reports that “overall, Prescott was met with acceptance and approval.”

Prescott was an activist from an early age, advocating for better treatment of animals and marriage equality. He was also a vital part of several LGBT youth groups in the San Diego area. His suicide is the 11th reported this year among trans youth in this country, a trend some are calling an epidemic.

A Go Fund Me page has been created to help the Prescott family cover the costs of Kyler’s funeral. Additional funds will go toward the Kyler Prescott Courage Garden, to honor Kyler’s love of bees.

http://www.newnownext.com/14-year-ol...icide/05/2015/

A person can have all the love and support of the world, but it doesn't matter if the person doesn't love his/her self enough to work out their own issues.

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A person can have all the love and support of the world, but it doesn't matter if the person doesn't love his/her self enough to work out their own issues.

June 2, 2015

Bruce Jenner Is Not A Hero

I generally try to steer clear of controversial issues on here. Most are so deeply embedded in presuppositions that writing about them generally just generates more anger and frustration than meaningful discussion. However, I never want to shy away from speaking something that needs to be said even if I know it is not something people want to hear. So, I want to talk about Bruce Jenner.

Today, Bruce Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, dressed as a woman and introducing himself to the world as “Caitlyn Jenner.” You see, he has decided that he is a woman and that by saying it and probably some very extensive surgery, he can make it so. In today’s world, we think gender is something we get to choose, like our career path or our clothes. So, people across the nation have lauded him as a hero. Certainly, this is the current opinion of the masses, but I have to say it. The emperor has no clothes and Bruce Jenner is not a woman.

You can tell me that there is a difference between gender and sex, that Bruce was born with a male body and a female soul, but I would ask where did he get this soul? If there is no God, we are all nothing more than raw matter, we have no souls. If, however, we do have souls, there must be something more than the material. There must be something spiritual and if there is something spiritual, there must be a God who gave us these spirits, but if there is a God, would He make the mistake of putting a female soul in a male body? How can we know? We can know by what He tells us in His word. “Male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27) and He does not make mistakes, but does everything perfectly with love and wisdom.

We seem to want to erase the idea of gender and reinforce it all at once. We don’t want to have to conform to gender stereotypes. We don’t want to be put into categories and yet we want to be able to transfer ourselves by self-declaration from one category to another. We are so in love with our rebellion against God that we cannot see the absurdity and inconsistency of it all.

You may scoff at me. You may call me close-minded because I have allowed my religious beliefs to (gasp!) affect my judgments of propositions such as “Bruce Jenner is a woman trapped in a man’s body.” But if being open-minded means unquestioningly accepting anything and everything because it is progressive or popular, then I want no part of it. If you think I view the world from a Christian perspective and reject things that, based on that world view and common sense, are absurd, I will unabashedly and unapologetically agree.

If you don’t see things from the same Christian world view that I do, we probably do not agree and that is no surprise, but I must insist on one thing. Bruce Jenner is not a hero. A hero is someone who has done something brave or noble, who has sacrificed for others. Bruce Jenner has done none of these things. He is a man who has posed in women’s clothing on the cover of a magazine, garnering excessive media attention. What’s more he has waited to do so until the optimum moment when he was most sure to receive praise and acceptance. Heroes risk much and gain little. Bruce Jenner has risked little and gained much. I am sure there are many people out there who do things to deserve the title of “hero,” but Bruce Jenner is not one of them. He is not a hero and he is not a woman. He is what we all are: lost, sinful, and desperately in need of Jesus. I pray he finds Him.

https://emilysuzanne11.wordpress.com...is-not-a-hero/

All this time I thought the the cast of Monty Python were open minded and tolerant liberals. Heck, one of them was even gay (RIP Graham Chapman). But in retrospect, they were just another group of cis-white transphobic bigots. How else can you explain the prediction of modern transgenderism to a “T”?



Call them Nostradamus. We won’t even get into that there are no non-cis white males in Python to begin with. Just sit back and soak in the micro aggressions…

STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.

REG: What?!

LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.

JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?

LORETTA: I want to have babies.

REG: You want to have babies?!

LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.

REG: But… you can’t have babies.

LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.

REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! — Where’s the fetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!

LORETTA: [crying]

All joking aside (because Monty Python is generally hysterical), this seemingly innocent sketch would have to be declared to be transphobic hate-speech today. Heck, even the actors in the sketch would probably protest it now. Comedians have turned from anti-authoritarian satirists to PC appeasers. Don’t believe me? Check out some comments found recently on the Planned Parenthood Facebook page.



Yes… men can get pregnant too. For serious. There’s really only one thing left do do…denouncing anything we’ve ever found funny… ever.

Liberals: turning America into a nation where all humor and/or fun is strictly prohibited


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