Gender confusion

[temporal1]

March 2024 / VATICAN NEWS

Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time
“Addressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.”
Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest danger" of our time, because it cancels out all differences that make humanity unique.”
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news ... -time.html

[Josh]

March 2024 / VATICAN NEWS

Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time
“Addressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.”
Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest danger" of our time, because it cancels out all differences that make humanity unique.”
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news ... -time.html

Francis is really growing on me. Neither left nor right, he makes both the conservatives and liberals mad, whilst simultaneously getting both the conservatives and liberals to say he agrees with them.

[temporal1]

Canada / More on WPATH

Jordan Peterson with Michael Shellenberger / This Cannot Be Ignored / -21min

[barnhart]

I've been watching this thread with a question formulating in my mind. When I think of an issue like gender confusion, I see many factors at play like small streams merging to create a river. Family dysfunction and personal choice play a role but also the environment of a culture or society that has unhealthy, inhuman ideas at a foundational level. I can't help but believe a lot of people caught up in this confusion would not have this struggle if they lived in another time or culture.

Not long ago it was common to hear arguments on MN that societies or cultures could not be harboring sin like racism since that is a theological violation of the gospel where people are sinful, not societies. Under this analysis fault lies only with the individual and therefore it is anti-biblical to suggest or advocate societal reforms. Now the common ideas for responding to gender confusion seem to involve legislation or electing better government officials.

Would anyone like to offer a synthesis of this discrepancy where society contributes to one evil but not the other.

[steve-in-kville]

I'd like to know, when a gay couple gets engaged, who wears the ring?

[Josh]

I'd like to know, when a gay couple gets engaged, who wears the ring?

I sold an engagement ring to a lesbian couple once. The “butch” partner proposed to the “femme” partner who wore the ring.

[temporal1]

Canadian Gender Report / Cass Review Final Report – A New Standard for Canada and the World
https://genderreport.ca/cass-review-fin ... ct-canada/

Conclusion
We expect the Cass Review to have reverberating impacts around the world. Cass opened up the kimono and discovered the Emperor is wearing no clothes. Will the Cass Report change our approach in Canada? We hope so. It has certainly created a model for a thorough investigation and has left a wealth of evidence and guideline recommendations to pore through and evaluate.

What’s most concerning, in light of this Review and the growing international concern over the past few years, is that the Canadian Pediatric Society and provincial medical associations continue to put forward their view that gender-affirmation care is “evidence-based”. The Cass Review has proven that gender affirming interventions are being used without an appropriate level of research and evidence proving their safety and efficacy. Who is willing to look at whether gender-affirmation care is really safe for children in Canada? Alberta has announced plans to restrict puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries. We hope they see the opportunity to leverage and build upon the evidence base of the Cass Report as they consider how to effect a momentous change in policy and practice.

There is an extreme amount of pressure to continue with the status quo. But we hope that a growing number of people in Canada are waking up to the fact that what began as a human rights agenda to create new protections for trans-identified individuals has become a revolutionary cultural movement that has blatant disregard for the principles of evidence-based medicine, the developmental process by which children mature into adults, and the need for public scrutiny and open debate on this issue that so drastically impacts the social welfare of children. The cultural environment we’ve created around this topic may harm the very individuals we intended to protect.

Unfortunate, but perhaps not surprisingly, much of the mainstream media in Canada is ignoring the Cass Review altogether. CBC, the Globe & Mail and other mainstream outlets have yet to report on the growing level of international concern regarding gender affirming care. But the mantra of “protect trans kids” takes on entirely new meaning when the complexity of issues that these vulnerable young people face is considered with a new level of sensitivity and compassion that the Cass Review has achieved.

To those who would rather shout slogans than understand whether treatments are harming children, there’s a growing group of people here in Canada who are saying “Enough”. When the risks of harm are high, so too must be the evidence that supports the medical and psychosocial interventions being offered. This standard cannot be achieved based on the current available evidence. It is time Canada began the reckoning process of puberty blockers and other gender affirmation practices.

If this reckoning does not happen soon, Canada may one day be regarded as the only nation in the world that blindly allowed trans-activists and well-intentioned individuals, through the tools of our public health and education systems,
to maim, disrupt and sterilize children in the name of human rights.

^^For profit.

BPR News Commentary
‘Butchers were murderously wrong’: New study finds risk of suicide jumps 12-fold AFTER gender surgery
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/19 ... y-1460405/