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The Tragedy of Gender Insanity

The Tragedy Of Gender Insanity

By Rod Dreher
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-tragedy-of-gender-insanity/
May 16, 2019

This is not just tragic, it's lethally stupid:

When the man arrived at the hospital with severe abdominal pains, a nurse didn't consider it an emergency, noting that he was obese and had stopped taking blood pressure medicines. In reality, he was pregnant -- a transgender man in labor that was about to end in a stillbirth.

The tragic case, described in Wednesday's New England Journal of Medicine, points to larger issues about assigning labels or making assumptions in a society increasingly confronting gender variations in sports , entertainment and government . In medicine, there's a similar danger of missing diseases such as sickle cell and cystic fibrosis that largely affect specific racial groups, the authors write.

"The point is not what's happened to this particular individual but this is an example of what happens to transgender people interacting with the health care system," said the lead author, Dr. Daphna Stroumsa of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

"He was rightly classified as a man" in the medical records and appears masculine, Stroumsa said. "But that classification threw us off from considering his actual medical needs."

This person was not "rightly classified as a man." This person is a woman. Madeleine Kearns speculates on future tragedies that could occur because the medical establishment is too afraid to say "no" to gender delusion, and to progressives who believe that changing language can change reality:

In medicine, there's no saying where the abandonment of objective sex classifications might end. Let's imagine, for instance, that this patient -- a pregnant female identifying as a male -- donated blood which is later given to a male. Research suggests that males who have blood transfusions from females who have been pregnant could be a higher risk of premature death.

Or let's imagine a different case. Let's say a male who identifies as female takes a pregnancy test, and it shows up as positive: That male isn't pregnant, but he may very well have testicular cancer. What treatment would he receive from doctors if they were treating him as a female?

In Canada, doctors just lost a huge medical conscience ruling. They must conform to this culture of death (abortion, euthanasia) and radical disorder (transgenderism). Wesley Smith writes:

Not only that, when most doctors got into medicine, euthanasia was a felony! But who cares? Times change and doctors must change with them because patients are "vulnerable:"

[Quoting the ruling:] The vulnerable patients I have described above, seeking MAiD, abortion, contraception and other aspects of sexual health care, turn to their family physicians for advice, care and, if necessary, medical treatment or intervention. Given the importance of family physicians as "gatekeepers" and "patient navigators" in the health care system, there is compelling evidence that patients will suffer harm in the absence of an effective referral.

Baloney. The real issue here is the message dissenting doctors send when they refuse to participate in a controversial intervention because it is wrong, which the court ruled is "stigmatizing" to patients.

The point of opposing medical conscience is to drive pro-life and Hippocratic Oath-believing doctors out of medicine. The Court goes there, telling doctors who don't want to euthanize, abort, facilitate sex change, etc., they can always get into hair restoration:

[In] the following areas of medicine...physicians are unlikely to encounter requests for referrals for MAiD or reproductive health concerns, and which may not require specialty retraining or certification: sleep medicine, hair restoration, sport and exercise medicine, hernia repair, skin disorders for general practitioners, obesity medicine, aviation examinations, travel medicine, and practice as a medical officer of health.

So, an experienced and skilled oncologist who doesn't want to kill can implant hair plugs instead of curing cancer. Brilliant.

And if they won't do that, get the hell out of medicine.

The appellants have no common law, proprietary or constitutional right to practice medicine. As members of a regulated and publicly-funded profession, they are subject to requirements that focus on the public interest, rather than their interests. In fact, the fiduciary nature of the physician-patient relationship requires physicians to act at all times in their patients' best interests, and to avoid conflicts between their own interests and their patients' interests.

Forcing doctors to be complicit in the taking of human life or face potential civil/professional consequences is despotism.

I'm telling you, readers, its Benedict Option time. This stuff is coming, and coming hard. From the book:

Along those lines, it will be very difficult to have open dialogue in many workplaces without putting oneself in danger. One Christian professor on a secular university's science faculty declined to answer a question I had about the biology of homosexuality, out of fear that anything he said, no matter how innocuous and fact-based, could get him brought up on charges within his university, as well as attacked by social media mobs. Everyone working for a major corporation will be frog-marched through "diversity and inclusion" training and will face pressure not simply to tolerate LGBT co-workers but to affirm their sexuality and gender identity.

Plus, companies that don't abide by state and federal antidiscrimination statutes covering LGBTs will be not be able to receive government contracts. In fact, according to one religious liberty litigator who has had to defend clients against an exasperating array of antidiscrimination lawsuits, the only thing standing between an employer or employee and a court action is the imagination of LGBT plaintiffs and their lawyers.

"We are all vulnerable to such targeting," he said.

Says a religious liberty lawyer, "There is no looming resolution to these conflicts; no plateau that we're about to reach. Only intensification. It's a train that won't stop so long as there is momentum and track."

David Gushee, a well-known Evangelical ethicist who holds an aggressively progressive stance on gay issues, published a column in 2016 noting that the middle ground is fast disappearing on the question of whether discrimination against gays and lesbians for religious reasons should be tolerated.

"Neutrality is not an option," he wrote. "Neither is polite half-acceptance. Nor is avoiding the subject. Hide as you might, the issue will come and find you."

Public school teachers, college professors, doctors, and lawyers will all face tremendous pressure to capitulate to this ideology as a condition of employment. So will psychologists, social workers, and all in the helping professions; and of course, florists, photographers, backers, and all businesses that are subject to public accommodation laws.

Christian students and their parents must take this into careful consideration when deciding on a field of study in college and professional school. A nationally prominent physician who is also a devout Christian tells me he discourages his children from following in his footsteps. Doctors now and in the near future will be dealing with issues related to sex, sexuality, and gender identity but also to abortion and euthanasia. "Patient autonomy" and nondiscrimination are the principles that trump all conscience considerations, and physicians are expected to fall in line.

"If they make compliance a matter of licensure, there will be nowhere to hide," said this physician. "And then what do you do if you're three hundred thousand dollars in debt from medical school, and have a family with three kids and a sick parent? Tough call, because there aren't too many parishes or church communities who would jump in and help."

I spoke to this physician a couple of months ago. The noose is tightening, he says. Be vigilant.

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