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Lisa Jain Thompson says political correctness normally prevents modern society from an honest examination of the transgender movement: The transgendered may be critical of society, but society cannot be critical of the transgendered. I am under no such constraints. Where men and women born with the medical condition Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS fna transsexuality) are focused on bringing their outward sexual organs into agreement with their actual sex, the transgendered community's key concern seems to be gaining access to random public bathroom facilities and complaining that life is unfair.
This column by Lisa Jain Thompson is one part of a four-part series. What follows is an examination of the very vocal demands of the transgender political movement and community.
Part 1.The Differences Between Us. An investigation into the basic differences between HBS men and women and the transgendered. It would seem that where HBS men and women are focused on bringing their outward sexual organs into agreement with their actual sex, the transgendered community's key concern is to be able to choose public bathroom facilities at random. An HBS man or woman is driven to correct their misassigned genitals, the transgendered seem driven only to change the noun on their bathroom door. More …
Part 2.The Transgender Need For Legal Deceit. An investigation into the transgender initiative to obtain two drivers licenses, each with a different names and sex marker. Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) is medical condition that originates during fetal development inside the womb. HBS is not, intrinsically, trans-sex, trans-gender, or even trans-active. HBS, in and of itself, is not queer. HBS men and women fall along the normal bell curve for the human race for sexual preference. Some, if not the majority, of HBS men and women are straight, some are gay or lesbian, some are bisexual. More …
Part 3.Why HBS Men And Women Threaten Transgenders. An investigation into the transgender “Passing” and the need for absolute approval and confirmation that drive their charges of HBS “separatism.” We have stated repeatedly that someone who cannot have surgery due to valid MEDICAL issues (other than fear of surgery) is HBS, albeit pre-op. We have been consistent in that position since day one. Financial considerations may also slow an HBS's progress towards surgery, giving them a long period of being pre-op — but they keep working towards SRS and are still HBS. Not treating HBS is not an option. More …
Part 4.A Look Inside the Transgender Mind. A non-politically correct investigation into the root causes of transgenderism. Political correctness normally prevents liberal modern society from subjecting certain subjects to scientific scrutiny, e.g., race, religion, intelligence, and, most recently, transgenderism. I have never been bound by political correctness (you can ask the third grade nun who taught me) or reluctant to poke into subjects that might give rise to great moral indignation by the offended cultural guardians. This is my fourth column that discusses the transgender and it takes a deeper look at the root causes of transgenderism. As Anton Chekhov wrote, Man will become better when you show him what he is like. More …
Springfield, VA, USA. Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) is medical condition that originates during fetal development inside the womb. HBS is not, intrinsically, trans-sex, trans-gender, or even trans-active. HBS, in and of itself, is not queer.
HBS men and women fall along the normal bell curve for the human race for sexual preference. Some, if not the majority, of HBS men and women are straight, some are gay or lesbian, some are bisexual.
Being born with HBS does not make you queer. We are not defined by our sexual preference, the clothes we wear, or who we vote for. HBS does not limit itself to one skin color, one language, one nation or continent. HBS is only one of many possible variants within the human genome.
By definition, HBS men and women support the sexual binary: human sex is male or female; social roles and expectations (what the theorists refer to as gender) are masculine or feminine with wide variation within each social role. Sex is who we are, man or woman; gender is how we dress and act, masculine or feminine. At the end of the day, HBS men and women are mothers and fathers, wives and husbands, lovers and partners, mostly middle class citizens living in our country’s heartland — and not necessarily revolutionaries who want to overthrow the social structure.
After HBS is treated — after hormones, after transition, after surgery — HBS ceases to be a medical condition. We do not say that someone still has the flu or the mumps after they are well; nor do we say someone has a cleft lip once surgery corrects that birth condition. After sex realignment surgery, those born with HBS are no longer HBS. Proper treatment allows the formerly HBS men and women to lead lives in society, in most cases, without reference to their birth condition (just as no one needs to know I had polio as a child other than my personal physician and my life partner).
Because HBS is a medical condition (one that is successfully treated) and not a political party or an agent for social change, HBS men and women find themselves labeled as selfish, elitist, and self satisfied if they do not toe the transgender agenda and strict party line. A typical quote from a transgender person who equates transgender with transsexual:
Your opposition to the 2006 New York City Health Department proposal is an example of "I've got mine, to hell with everyone else" attitude. It's only a matter of degree from the position taken by anti-transsexual people like the Christianist Right Wing.
And all this because an HBS woman opposed a change to New Law that would allow cross-dressing transgender males with functioning penises to legally declare themselves women and use the women's public restroom. The Health Department proposal confused socially constructed gender (men dressing as women) with sex (male or female), buying into the transgender philosophy that sex is a social construct that can be changed with a change of costume.
The transgender person, emotionally committed to the transgender party line, purposely conflates HBS with a form of transgenderism which they calls transsexuality. This purposeful confusion by the transgender movement is the key reason more and more people are identifying as HBS rather than the former term transsexual; a term which now, thanks to the male dominated transgender political machine, the media applies to transgenders, crossdressers, and transvestites (and any other male person caught working the street in a dress and make-up).
Another typical quote:
Of course, there are those who take the position that the only thing they need to fix is to make sure the sex correction is legally binding for all purposes — and then the heterosexual post-ops can shrug and say "I've got mine and to hell with those who don't."
If an HBS man or woman doesn't buy into the transgender agenda, including the transgenderist prescriptive as to what constitutes HBS (fna transsexuality) and dares to speak out, the transgender swarm arises and attacks. No voice of dissent is tolerated: the transgender agenda is god and there shall be no strange gods before it.
Notice the strong anti-heterosexual strain that runs through the transgender movement, the distaste for heterosexuality, the need to identify as queer rather than as a straight man who wears dresses. A large percentage of the vocal transgender community, through their repeated public attacks on heterosexual HBS, talks about the marriage of an HBS woman to a heterosexual man (a common occurrence in the United States) as if it were a perversion.
Perhaps their opposition to women who formerly were HBS is a projection of transgenders innermost fears: that someone will find out who they actually are, or that they would be forced to surrender their male privilege forever and live 24-7 as women. Perhaps the transgender just dislike anyone, HBS or whomever, who can commit, stay committed, and not purge themselves periodically with promises of starting over.
Perhaps it is just the normal male attempt to dominate women, to tell women what they should look like, how they should act, and most of all, reinforce the proper place of women as subservient to men and subject to the testosterone driven fantasies of the male gaze.
Some of it, of course, is transgender resentment that HBS is a medical condition that once treated no longer exists. Transgender is forever, as we all are well aware. That HBS men and women move on with their lives is a thorn in the side of those transgenders who remain in an endless loop from which most never emerge.
If the transgender community had their way, if they could impose their agenda on HBS men and women, they would deny our existence. Their continued attempts to subjugate HBS women to their masturbatory hallucinations serves no purpose other than to fill the needs of transgendered male egos.
They will go no further.
Ms. Lisa Jain Thompson is the Co-Founder & President of TS-Si, Inc. She also serves as a Contributing Editor and columnist for the TS-Si website. Ms. Thompson's signed articles contain her own opinions and do not necessarily convey an official position of TS-Si, its partners, or affiliates.
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