OPINION: More Stories Of Trans Violence In Massachusetts: Suspect Stabbing Spree Identified As Trans
Suspect In Mass. Stabbing Spree Wounding 6 Allegedly Identified As A Trans Woman [VIDEOS]……………HERE WE GO AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN!!!….BUT WAIT THERE ARE MORE STORIES OF TRAN-VIOLENCE!!….SEE BELOW
Editor’s note: According to Law Enforcement Today – “Trans suspect arrested after going on a stabbing spree of little girls, ending in a fiery crash after a vehicle pursuit”
(comment / opinion)- UNDOUBTEDLY AMERICA HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM, OR PROBLEMS, AS MAY BE THE CASE. The problem here that lies before us it that we have broken the measuring stick of what is defined as “normal”.
No Society, regardless of the size of their Ego, cannot have stability in a Society, if we ignore what is, and what must be viewed as “normal”. The problem that presents itself to America is that a segment of society have become Deniers of their Natural-Gender…… Nature-Phobic, if you will.
One cannot and does not change their “Gender” by merely believing that they can…..Furthermore, and even more important, is the reality that you can NEVER compel or force the rest of Society to see things as you do. Therein lies our biggest problem as a civilized Society.
Government through the eyes of some of our Elected Idiots, have embraced the illusions & delusions of these alleged “Gender-Changelings”, and have baptized them as “Victims”. Point-in-fact is that there may be far-reaching Mental-issues here that are being ignored under the pretense that Nature was wrong and US puny Earthlings “Must” know better, then the Phenomenal powers of Nature that have been formulating Life for hundreds of centuries.!!
I find it to be pure Insanity, and an absolute Negligence of Elected officials, (once they stick their noses into this mental turmoil), that they have chosen acts of Enabling, and Endorsing this Bizarre unfounded behavior,….Instead of reaching out to these individuals and getting them the necessary & proper Medical and Psychological aid that is needed!! Due to the Incompetence, and Ignorance of those with granted Authority, of the People, we have (in effect) let loose a Carnage of Violence and Murder upon our Society, with the “Blessings” of Elected-Fools.
Despite the Facts that there are NO Medical or Scientific foundations for one to claim to be a Trans-Anything, some our Politically Influenced Doctors, have chosen to ignore Science, and medical facts, as have some of our Politicians chosen to ignore their need to be Honest /Oath-Driven representatives and try to help People in need……Sadly the results of this Enabling and Endorsing of Delusions has and will continue to wreak-Havoc on out Innocent Citizens,
as these stories below reflect;….Who is left to bring Aid & Comfort to the Families and the Victims of this “Trans-Violence”?? How sad!! ………..T. Pastore / Vietnam Veteran / USMC
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The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.
The Denver shooter identified as trans.
The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.
The Nashville shooter identified as trans.
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BUT WAIT AMERICA,…THERE IS MORE;….ALL THIS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION, IS HURTING & KILLING OUR YOUNG!!
DON’T THEY COUNT FOR ANYTHING??
STUDY: ‘TRANS’ SURGERY INCREASES SUICIDE RISK BY 12 TIMES According to a recent study, “those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not,” reports The Daily Wire.
The findings call into question the common pro-LGBT argument that so-called “gender-affirming care” prevents suicide. READ
WATCH;…Transgender Suspect Repeatedly Mowed Down Man With Car Before Kissing, Then Stabbing Him News
Karon Fisher: Texas transgender woman charged with murder for hitting man with car, kissing him …
Meaww on MSN.com3 days agoA deranged woman, identified as 20-year-old Karon Fisher, drove her car into a man, backed over him,…
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according to WHAM-TV. © Provided by New York Post. A shocking video that appears to show a large transgender student violently pulling a smaller girl out of a bathroom stall at an upstate
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WATCH;….BREAKING. A male who identifies as transgender brutally assaulted a female student at Pennbrook Middle School in PA. One girl who said she was “second on [his] hit list” told the school…
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An Oklahoma teen girl was “severely beaten” by a trans student in a school bathroom, prompting the injured pupil’s parent to file a lawsuit against the district for not enforcing a state law…
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WATCH;…. the disturbing video depicting a brutal assault on a female student by a classmate at Hazelbrook Middle School in Oregon is igniting outrage on social media. This incident adds to …
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Thomas Pastore
FORMER RESIDENT & COMMUNITY BD. #1 MEMBER, Thomas Pastore / Activist / Vietnam Veteran / USMC.
I don’t know how m any trans-identified people are out there.
The instances of violence are for real, but that hardly seems like a majority of trans people.
Personally? I think they’re sick. But so are people who are greedy, gamblers, fornicators, etc.
So, not all fornicators are going to commit brutal killings and assaults. So while i think this trans thing is definitely a mental health issue, I don’t see that it’s leading to massive amounts of violence bc the stars don’t bear that out.
More than this influence is the gangster rap that glorifies killing. See how many adherents to that “sub-culture” have killed/have been killed.
My real question is why people are drawn into this. I think it has to do with our society and how parents (and teachers) don’t give kids a framework anymore.
Fornicators? You’ve GOT to be kidding me.
I mean, it’s a sin…
YOUR RELIGION YOUR RULES
the United States does not have an official religion despite talk of Judaeo-Christian values.
Oh yeah? Says who? Don’t you know anything about our history?
I support LGBTQIA+ but I also know my history and was an A student.
Our country was founded by the Pilgrims, Puritans, etc.
Christians.
So is your judgement.
Grand-daughter of a minister here. Never missed a Sunday sermon for 23 years.
Maybe judge less and focus that attention on your own sins?
Methinks commenter was merely making a point that while he feels trans is not right behavior or whatever in his eyes or religion’s, we all engage in such behavior, in some way or another unless you are a legit saint and don’t sin so there isn’t necessarily an association between a mental disorder or a sin or what have you, and violence.
My opinion? Doesn’t matter.
What are the stats on this? C’mon. Staten Island News, do you hear us? We want the stats. I’m mature enough to handle whatever is revealed.
The stars don’t bear this out?
Well, stars are always better at telling the situation than the stats, of course.
Stats are for brats. We mature people always look to the stars. Siruis Minor just told me last night that my checking was overdrawn. How lovely that stars can help.
I mistyped. I meant stats as in statistics.
You did not
THEY ARE SICK AND NEED HELP BUT THEIR DOCS SUGGEST BECOMING A EUNUCH BECAUSE ACTUALLY HELPING A WAYWARD YOUTH IS NOT PROFIT ENOUGH
I FAULT THE DOCS AND NO ONE ELSE
PARENTS TRUST THEM AS AUTHORITY
Kids want to be cool.
Too bad fidget spinners went out…
A world less harmless than gangster rap…
Kids are often followers. For every leader there a hundred followers.
And what they follow is seldom good.
Think of the Tide pods challenge.
This “guy’s” “artwork” sucks. No quotes on sucks.
My 8-year-old daughter can do better. But that isn’t important. What’s important is how this freak went from proposing to strangers to stabbing them. Rebuffed one too many times maybe?
Oh and you’re an art expert now? you’re probably a plumber or a cop, judging from the people I know who read this paper.
I don’t appreciate that they print opinions like yours. Clearly you are biased.
Unless you can direct me to your art critic profile I can say it’s beautiful art work. And what I say means no less than you.
‘One cannot and does not change their “Gender” by merely believing that they can…’
oh gawd….we were raised to think that a boy can play with any toy. Now we’re back to boys play with guns and girls play house. Wearing long hair doesn’t make you a girl~! Did you ever hear of hippies in the 60s? Rockers in the 80s?
I know straight guys who wore eye makeup in the 80s. Gay? hahah They were after p*****. And it worked for them.
You got a d*** and you’re a guy. Facts.
Your 80s rocker friends were expressing gender nonconformity
hahaha I love it
They were not gender nonconforming! That is my whole point. Their gender was male. And they went after women.
You have got it all wrong.
Yeah great idea. Let your boy play with dolls and you will have one confused adolescent.
My girls never played with trucks. They did ballet, played with dolls and they grew up fine.
You don’t know this but when my parents went to school boys and girls were separate.
Boys have to learn to not be sensitive. Girls have to learn to be sensitive.
What will we do with sensitive boys on the battlefield? Or insensitive girls raising kids?
Hmm…I don’t know….
I’ve seen so many other families that have both boys and girls and the kids play together with the boys’ toys and the girls’ toys and as far as I know they all seem like they grew up to be balanced individuals, not radicals, and contributing members of society and raised good families, themselves.
Can’t think of ONE. Hmm..the few problem ones (gen Z) I CAN think of were only children, so this wasn’t even a thing and doesn’t apply bc they only had toys of their own gender.
We’re making too much of all this. Somehow I feel like some of you are making excuses and just have a ****-** for authoritarian fascism.
The battle field is going to be robots and AI, friend. We’re not there yet, but it’s soon. So yes we need hard boys. But girls, too. And today, the kids are weirder than ever, but that doesn’t mean they’re bad. Some women go into the military. No, many. So your ideas aren’t up-to-date. 20% or so average is a LOT. That’s 1 in 5 enlisted.
Women Men
Army 18.8% 81.2%
Navy 20.9% 79.1%
Marines 9.8% 90.2%
Air Force 23.4% 76.6%
We need these video-game addicted, sunlight-fearing geeks because they’re going to do whatever is left for humans to do. That is, interface with the machines and help keep us safe, by programming and maintaining them. Really, though, that is an issue, too. The military is finding so many kids are in bad health from doing nothing all day. They don’t go to parks. They don’t have keg parties. They sit. And sit. And site some more.
You do sound like a ******** *****. I’d hate being your son.
My family isn’t like that. We were a close family and raised in-part by my Grandfather, God Rest His Soul. He was a WW II Officer and we were raised more strictly than you. I ASSURE YOU.
No. No. I mean, really. You have no ******** idea. So **** the **** **.
Any of my cousins would likely kick the **** out of you in a fair fight. And some of them are small guys. And the girls, too. You wouldn’t walk away. You’d crawl. But, you seem like a good guy with values, so it would never come to a fight other than in a ring. I’m sure, bc they’re all polite **. Not like me. I’m the wild one of the bunch. And still, I’d probably walk away with you if you weren’t respectful and get a drink or three, on me. 😛 Just how I was taught to be. Take no **** from anyone but always try to make friends. And try hard at that. And be real about it not a phony.
We’re all okay and we were never told what toys to play with. My (male) cousins played with dolls with their sisters and cousins, at times when they all (the girls, too) weren’t exploring the woods together playing man hunt, or building go-karts. Many went into the Army and various law enforcement, honorable discharge from military, got jobs, got married, bought houses. Sorry. You are making excuses.
What in the??
I’m 72 years old and disabled.
Fair fight?
You missed your change by about three decades, son. I’d have whooped your a**. haha I boxed in my day.
I get your point. You read me wrong.
You have to admit though. The front lines are going to be men. I stand by my point. You explained well so I am not responding again.
What in the??
I’m 72 years old and disabled.
Fair fight?
You missed your change by about three decades, son. I’d have whooped your a**. haha I boxed in my day.
I get your point. You read me wrong.
You have to admit though. The front lines are going to be men. I stand by my point. You explained well so I am not responding again.
You need a shrink, man. Better yet, follow your own advice and have a drink, then walk to your local park and have a little party all by yourself. You are wayyy too keyed up about all this.
You started off okay but by the end you made me wonder if being raised “in-part” by your WW II vet Grandfather didn’t somehow make you (and your cousins) slightly insane?
C’mon yo, you asked for it…lolzz
Did you and your cousins learn how to crawl under barbed wire or untie yourself if captured?
Me and my cousins learned to fish and hunt. *shrugs* Oh well to each their own.
We all might be able to use a shrink, friend. Don’t advise this guy to drink and go walking bc he could get hit by a car!!!!
“Any of my cousins would likely kick the **** out of you in a fair fight. ”
How? What fair fighting technique did you all learn that is not some sort of deception or death blow or unfair strike that even the “girls” could “kick the other commenter’s a**”? You say even the “girls”. What are you all sixty by now? The women you refer to are probably grandmothers.
Estimate– Grandfather ~110 years old, Father ~85, so you must be ~60 years old?
I’d say you already had your own keg party all by yourself.
*sheesh*
I get that the commentertwas talking about boxing/ring fighting.
I assume they were all taught to box and NOT fight dirty.
But coming from the Satanist, I wouldn’t imagine that you can fight fair and win without some help from the devil or some magic or something.
Oh, really? Hmm…
Yeah. You’re right.
But I also train in JuJitsu just in case that demon I summoned doesn’t materialize in a cloud of acrid orange smoke and mist. I’ve played D&D for years and I know reality and fantasy don’t often collide. Tho that would be cool.
In a ring and the guy is 65 or so? I’d say both boxed. Most definitely. Everyone boxed back then. My family had a punching bag at auntie’s and even the little kids were taught to throw a punch, stance, blocking, excetera
I think what happened was that martial arts gained in popularity in the 90s.
Before that, everyone had a heavy-bag out in the garage and mostly just messed around but at a certain point everyone joined “karate” schools. And at that point the boxing waved in popularity on the island and Brooklyn.
Self-defense was important. I mean, it still is but I mean families and entire communities acknowledged that truth. Back then. Now? I’m not sure it isn’t lip service.
Sending the kids off to karate school is so different than making them go in the “cellar” and hit the bags and teach them yourself. I know it isn’t an either or thing but it kind of ended up being that way all the same.
Our culture was coming from a boxing history. Then we had the NFL and the USFL(?) and everything was brutal and hockey also. But now people are moving away from even that. I think pickleball is making a hit everywhere.
How a woke military has created a recruiting crisis — and put Americans in danger
By Social Links for Pete Hegseth
Published June 3, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/opinion/the-woke-military-has-created-a-dangerous-recruiting-crisis/
Life is more than “being on the battlefield”.
Wars should rarely happen but when they do society steps up.
And women are more than raising a child.
And there are soldiers who were/are sensitive men, and mothers who are more analyitic.
Whats your point anyway?
Let’s see…I have my three pence….
OK, take a seat, friends.
For me, I’d prefer men stay in the homeland and in the war factories and keep the kids fed and safe and home neat and clean while the women get out of the house for a change and beat it on up to the hill to the front lines. After all, equality. Anything other than this is insanity.
Don’t you agree?
For real, though, if this is about keeping the populace on a wartime footing mentally, in reality everyone has to adapt and step up so we all don’t end up goners.
We do need men at home. We do need men on the battlefield.
But you guys make it sound life future wars will be more like WW I. Too many video games for anyone under 40, I fear. The truth is both men and women serve honorably. My sister-in-law was a Navy woman. I’d like for you to say to her face that she was out of place. You wouldn’t dare.
I do feel old. Or young. Lost, really. You guys talk like my grandparents used to when I was a kid back in 1000 BC. Yet, I am probably an elder to most of you.
I am conservative or at least I thought so. Definitely not a RINO. But I feel like I’m back with my grandparents, lamenting about how kids don’t work enough and women getting the vote is a disaster.
“STUDY: ‘TRANS’ SURGERY INCREASES SUICIDE RISK BY 12 TIMES According to a recent study, “those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not,” reports The Daily Wire.’
Because gender dysphoria is lucrative and surgery like this isn’t the answer to feeling depressed. It’s like how people think breast surgery will fix their body dysmorphia.
You have to learn to love yourself. That psychologists encourage this is not in line with most psychological concepts. You don’t need surgeries to feel better, unless you have an injury, of course.
I for one am happy they take the hormones.
You ******** don’t realize that what they’re doing is good for us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s VOLUNTARY CHEMICAL CASTRATION
which is the same as what they give to child rapists.
I say go for it. That does make kids safer.
OK so 4 of the shooters were trans and nonbinary. How many other shooters are there? What percentage of the total number of shooters is this? Anyone know?
There are trans people in every city and state so that doesn’t seem like a big list of incidents. I’m not saying that is every incident, either. But since they make such a big deal when something happens i would guess it might be.
Good question. I would really like to know if there’s smoke and no fire or if we’re overlooking a ticking time bomb.
Harry, why don’t you look it up?
Any stats are public, so do the legwork and stop being a laze about.
Dear Mr. Pastore:
I also am sworn to defend the country and the Constitution.
Twice, actually, though I wouldn’t think that makes any difference.
So, anyway, I feel that defending an individual’s right to free expression is most important.
OFC, as long as it’s within legal and ethical bounds.
IN FACT, had people around this dude paid more care and attention to WHAT HE WAS SAYING and PAINTING ETC. they might have stepped in and intervened to his benefit. Instead, we have this tragedy. He was expressing and no one was there to listen. Clearly, he could have used some help. I mean look what he did.
With that said, it’s true this demographic has a high amount of mental illness besides the dysphoria. But also consider they are ostracized. The more we treat them like second class the more they feel alienated and feed this loop.
We can’t outlaw men wearing nail paint, nor would I think you would really want a society that policies things like that. I am not looking to turn the US.A. into Sharia law or Fundamentalist Christian ‘Sharia’ either for that matter.
I am not a homosexual but I have worked alongside a few. They are just people. The more we treat them like outsiders the more they will respond in ways that are dysfunctional. My rule was: Hit on em once and it’s OK. Hit on me repeatedly and you might get hit in your face. I dont lke boundary violators. But if some loose gal pushed herself on me I didnt want the VD either. It’s not about gay or this or that just being respectful to others.
This guy NEEDED attention, and i don’t mean necessarily some doctor. They have doctors at the VA and I think truthfully people benefit more if those around them express interest and concern for what they are dealing with.
” Hit on em once and it’s OK. ”
Huh??? You make no sense, bud. This totally contradicts the rest of your post.
I think you meant to write the word ME.
The suspect is TRANS not GAY!
And the “I am not a homosexual but I have worked alongside a few.” Such cringe.
Homosexuals, eh? Hmmm…
How is that offensive?
Every *** and **** should go for testing every year to make sure they are okay. Maybe there are meds to stop this obsessive thinking.
Aren’t you obsessed with trans more than they are? You want them to give up their rights so you can feel safe?
maybe theres meds to stop your obsessive thinking
trans victims exist because of *******s like you
That’s what I love about the Staten Islander. They let us actually debate on here. I feel it’s healthy having citizens with totally different ideas encounter one another. We are too stuck in a silo of sameness on social media. If you use that word, quote me. 3 Ball Is Red. If you don’t I sue.
I can only guess what you had written before they censored your post. You have a xenophobic attitude so I can guess it was a derogatory term, plus it was censored too.
That artwork isn’t so good. That is just my opinion.
Privileged boy doesn’t appreciate all he’s given and here we are.
Get a good look people. This kid is so entitled he doesn’t even care about children’s lives.
Oh and a Ferrari. He drives a Ferrari. No way his artwork is paying that bill.
They gave him everything material but family didn’t give him what he really needed. A good listening ear and a stern elder putting him back into reality.
Umm..he was an adult.
But growing up he wasn’t…
You telling me this is something that he didn’t have a long-term issue with? How could you know??
I just read an article about how before he went trans he did a photoshoot with a Russian designer and acted abnormal even as a straight guy. Definitely some underlying mental issue that predates his transition.
Thomas, gender and sex mean different things. I accept that.
I think we need to focus on SEX and not gender. A women’s room should be for FEMALE sexed bodies only. For safety. Not women because now that includes trans women and that really means males. I accept trans women as women but that doesn’t mean they are females.
Gender is just how a person acts and looks and doesn’t mean much. I am in my 70s but I am not a fossil. I lived in NYC thru the 70s and we’ve had trannies forever. Mostly harmless souls. But back then they didn’t think they were gals, they just dressed like them! I had a cousin who was married to a guy whose brother was a Village Drag Queen and he never said he was a women or female. Weird how things have changed.
This kid was confused but so are most kids. Good looking guy, too. What a shame
A drag queen isn’t necessarily a trans woman so your family member was a lot like many DQs today who don’t identify as trans women. Many don’t even support transitioning in kids.
Drag is just an art form like the Kabuki theater in Japan. A character played.
No one is forcing anyone to attend but some are trying to force others NOT to attend. Which sounds like a free country?
What is a Dragzilla?
Herein lies the confusion.
There’s equity and then there’s equality. Different things. I’m not so sure people realize all this has taken on new meaning.
We do need inclusion, as in no one is left out of society.
Same for tolerance. I am old school but I agree with that part.
It’s the equity idea that bugs me. Some of the ideas are pure insanity.
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From https://www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/blog/why-is-diversity-inclusion-in-the-workplace-important
Diversity and inclusion are two interconnected concepts—but they are far from interchangeable. Diversity focuses on representation or the make-up of an entity. Inclusion is about how well the contributions, presence, and perspectives of different groups of people are valued and integrated into an environment.
“gender-affirming care” can mean a lot of things.
Surgeries don’t even have to be on the table.
Live and let live. Want to wear dresses go ahead. But know that doesn’t being “Happiness.” Any psychiatrist telling you that is a charlatan. It takes hard work to be free, mentally and emotionally.
(Same goes for this trans person committing crimes)
What is the connection besides trans? There are a lot of trans hat don’t get violent and snap. We have to find that makes a a trans person go from depressed to postal. Most stop at depressed and only self harm or suicide. What makes these criminal trans man do this? It is one thing to wear dress and quite another to stab at a child.
Trans is a social issue. But not all trans commit murders so we must examine details and learn how we can deal with this before an incident.
“BUT WAIT AMERICA,…THERE IS MORE;….ALL THIS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION, IS HURTING & KILLING OUR YOUNG!!
DON’T THEY COUNT FOR ANYTHING??”
You’re USMC? Then you served alongside men of every background. True diversity.
Inclusion means not having any group excluded from society.
How can you suggest getting rid of diversity and inclusion? That is what makes America a great place to live.
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. This trans issue shouldn’t mean the end of our American Way of life. I for one value freedom so no we’re not going to go after a man wearing lip gloss. That may be the vision of America for some but not for me.
You don’t have to like them. You don’t have to date them. But we do have to accept and tolerate them.
that is the backdoor commie plan
get us to reject our freedoms for safety
fools
freedom is everything
THIS IS HOW THE COMMIES TRICK US INTO GIVING UP OUR BELOVED FREEDOM. EVEN AN HONORABLE VETERAN GOT SUCKED IN. YOU ARE TRYING TO SAVE THE COUNTRY BY GETTING RID OF WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT. ZERO TOLERANCE TO VIOLENT CRIME IS THE ANSWER. NOT ALL THIS. I DON’T CARE IF YOU WEAR MOO MOO IF YOU DO THE CRIME YOU DO THE TIME. THAT’S IT. SIMPLE SOLUTION.
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
“some our Politically Influenced Doctors, have chosen to ignore Science, ”
They are influenced by one thing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I am okay with trans. As long as you know that many men like myself will not date you and no one can shame me into thinking different
People can be bizarre. People cannot hurt others.
agreed
The Okie boi in the above link was not trans. Just a predator who had been kicked out of another HS prior for assaulting a student in a classroom. Both victims were female so why his parents didn’t warm the new school is beyond me. Also administrators should have warned Not about trans but about good communications between schools..
The perp was not part of the school’s trans program and was falsely registered by parents as a girl. Supposedly he did not use female pronouns.
There was also the case of Nex in Oklahoma. “Nex Benedict, a sophomore at Owasso High School, was brutally beaten by other students earlier this month and died the following day. Suiciide? They said the death wasn’t due to the beating, however. I *think* Nex was a female who was identifying as a trans boy, and used the women’s restroom and was accosted by 3 cis-gender girls. Not sure if that is the story though, trying to look it up and not getting far.
“Cis-gender” ??
Let me make up some words:
cis-worker
bat-eater
confused-idiot
I agree there may be some mental health issues but can’t we at least blame the mental health professionals egging these kids on?
That is exactly the point. I guess you didn’t read the author’s words.
i just don’t get the point of this article what if Ii picked and chose ten Greek people who committed crimes and then stereotyped that against all Greek people. I am Greek and I would not like it very much. Deal with the criminals. have zero tolerance. But this is the USA so let your freak flag fly high! USA USA!!
Whatever happened to just being gay or lesbian? *wow*
I was bi growing up but later went straight. (just my choice) I never would have thought to cut off my *****. That’s some horrifying isht right there. And telling kids it’s going to make their depression lift.
Highhhhhhhhhhhly irresponsible..
can’t say I don’t agree
Trans is a form of mental illness.
FACT
TRANS IS A FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESSES
DSM-5 Criteria for Gender Dysphoria
A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and natal gender of at least 6 months in duration, as manifested by at least two of the following:
A. A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (or in young adolescents, the anticipated secondary sex characteristics)
B. A strong desire to be rid of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics because of a marked incongruence with one’s experienced/expressed gender (or in young adolescents, a desire to prevent the development of the anticipated secondary sex characteristics)
C. A strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender
D. A strong desire to be of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s designated gender)
E. A strong desire to be treated as the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s designated gender)
F. A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s designated gender)
You are actually incorrect.
Gender dysphoria: A concept designated in the DSM-5-TR as clinically significant distress or impairment related to gender incongruence, which may include desire to change primary and/or secondary sex characteristics. Not all transgender or gender diverse people experience gender dysphoria.
What is Gender Dysphoria? – Psychiatry.org
Psychiatry.org
OK. I don’t know about you guys, but I actually took some other commenter’s advice above and I’m researching this. I found something interesting but it doesn’t relate to this case or anything mentioned in the above opinion, and it’s not even in the US.
Some say the study is long discredited so this requires further investigation and cannot be taken without digesting all of the criticism, which I admit I have not yet done and I hope I get to, and same for you, whoever is reading this, try to find the actual data. I can’t really figure out where to look. So I don’t know if other studies contradict this.
And, I’d be totally curious to know how trans people fare without the surgeries. Does it help them cope? How about just hormones? Does that work best? What I mean to say is, there is no control with this study, so we don’t know if it’s transitioning socially, or the surgeries, or the hormones, or a combination, or all three factors.
Also, the dataset might not be accurate or complete. Be forewarned and know this is just one study.
1. The Swedish Study Cecilia Dhejne, Paul Lichtenstein, Marcus Boman, Anna L. V. Johansson, Niklas Långström, Mikael Landén (2011) Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
“…This…study…(2011) followed a population of individuals who had undergone surgical and legal sex reassignment involving hormonal and surgical treatment between 1973 and 2003 (324 in total) and compared them to a matched control group of their birth sex. It is crucial to emphasise that this study looks only at those who have undergone hormonal and surgical transition, which is a much tighter group than individuals who self- identify as transgender….
…MtF transitioners were over 6 times more likely to be convicted of an offence than female comparators and 18 times more likely to be convicted of a violent offence. The group had no statistically significant differences from other natal males, for convictions in general or for violent offending. The group examined were those who committed to surgery, and so were more tightly defined than a population based solely on self-declaration…
…The study provides strong evidence that policy makers cannot safely assume (a) that transwomen’s offending patterns, including violent offending, will be significantly different than those of the general male population or (b) that they will be similar to those of the general female population….”
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“…Some on-line discussion of this piece describe its findings on offending as discredited.1 Policy analysts Murray Blackburn MacKenzie** conducted a search of the academic literature and were unable to find any academic rebuttal of these specific findings, or any equivalent study which shows the opposite effect to Dhejne et al’s result…”
**(Established in 2018, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie is an independent policy analysis collective, made up of Dr Kath Murray, Dr Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie. Based in Edinburgh, [they] have extensive experience in policy-making, research and communications.)
the author is correct and we need to take a look into this matter
We need both masculine and feminine role models.
They can be straight gay or cis-gender or trans.
Doesn’t really matter. But they have to be good members of society.
The rappers the kids look up to are the worst. They are vain and show nothing to the kids worthwhile.
These heterodox rappers fight tooth and nail for a world where nothing means anything. Money is good but they worship it. Sexy is good but they ruin it all.
Trans is just part of where we are as a culture. A symptom.
To be clear, I don’t care what a person does and if they wear a dress and born a male big deal. But the minute you act up and rape or harm I don’t care dress or not you pay.
We are trying to scapegoat these gays. They are an easy target but they aren’t the cause of all this discord.
Look to the media for that one. Oh and the elected officials. They all set the tone.
My kids are grown now, but if any of them had come to me saying that they were the opposite gender, I wouldn’t know what to do. I’d likely have cried.
We always said we’d support them no matter what they did, as long as it was moral and legal.
Of course, I worried at times that they would get involved with drugs or the gay lifestyle. It never happened.
I can’t see this as being easy for the parents. You don’t want to alienate but supporting transitioning is more than I could have done. One of my sons wanted to play tackle football. I wasn’t crazy about the idea because injuries happen.
But my husband and I let him do it. I never said I was happy with it but I didn’t really bother my son too much. Sometimes I would ask him if he still liked playing and he always said yes. So I left it alone. He played for seven seasons.
My other son was hanging out with the Wanderers, a gang on the South Shore. (This was decades ago)
I point blank told him that those boys were trouble and if he kept it up he’d end up in jail. Long story short, he was riding with one of them in a stole car and was pulled over. He didn’t get arrested but that was the end of his time being a street hood.
So you have to break it to them delicately or else you lose any influence whatsoever.
The boy who committed the crimes was troubled. it’s written all over his face. We need to care more and rely less on social services and the government. Whatever happened to a caring community?
Young people will always test the waters. That’s what growing up is for. Parents need to provide gentle guidance.