Transgender persons need all the help they can get, and it is the responsibility of those in government, healthcare and education to provide it. Regrettably too many of those who work in these professions are functioning more as enablers than helpers, thus postponing the day of reckoning. There is nothing normal about being transgender, and the data prove it.
There is much talk about transgender persons being the victims of violent crime. This is true. But what is not generally said is that more often than not the persons who are victimizing them are transgender. Over half (54 percent) of transgender and non-binary persons have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetimes. This is not a statistic from some conservative entity—the data are provided by the pro-LGBTQ organization, the Human Rights Campaign.
In the general population, 41 percent of women and 26 percent of men have experienced such violence. Transgender individuals are 2.2 times more likely to face physical violence and are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual violence than normal persons, i.e. those who accept their sexual status (known in the literature as “cisgender”).
In short, it is not bored frat boys who are roaming the streets on a Friday night looking to beat up trans persons—they are doing it to themselves.
Another false narrative holds that whatever maladies trans persons have, it is due to transphobia, discrimination, and the like. This skirts the real issue: their condition is organic, a function of who they are. It is not normal to be in constant rebellion against one’s nature. Not to admit to this verity is to aid and abet their abnormal condition.
Transgender individuals are self-destructive. In a study published last year by public health experts on IPV among trans women in the San Francisco Bay Area, it was found that they suffer from inconsistent hormone use and non-prescribed hormone use. These bodily altering conditions carry serious health issues. Also, men who “transition” to women are more likely to be prostitutes and drug users. Not surprisingly, they suffer from abnormal rates of depression and are more prone to suicide.
Dr. Paul McHugh is the longtime psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He knows this subject as well as anyone in the nation, having studied “people who claim to be transgender” for decades. His wording is precise: in reality, there is no such being as a transgender person. There certainly are those who claim this status, but the truth is there are males and females. That’s it. There is no third sex, or gender, never mind dozens of them, as some have absurdly claimed.
How, then, should we treat such persons? Gender dysphoria, the feeling that one belongs to the opposite sex, McHugh says, is similar to other “disordered assumptions about the body.” For example, he argues that it makes no sense to treat “obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction.” Similarly, treatment of trans persons should not be directed at the body. “The treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it.”
In a famous Swedish study, which followed-up on those who underwent sex-reassignment surgery—over a thirty year period—it was determined that such persons “have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.” Their suicide rate does not increase in the early years following surgery, but ten to fifteen years later it does—it rose twenty times that of comparable peers.
If it’s not normal to reject one’s own sexual identity, it is even more abnormal to consider oneself as belonging to, at least in part, another species. Worse, this problem is growing.
The young man who assassinated Charlie Kirk, and his lover roommate, a trans person (he was “transitioning” from male to female), were both attracted to a “furry” subculture. Such persons believe they have human and animal traits. Many give themselves names, choose a species, and attend conventions with like-minded persons. Most of them are homosexuals.
According to Mary Rooke, who has researched the “furry” population, “Furry culture is overtly sexual. Online forums are filled with depictions of humans roleplaying as animals engaging in sexual activity. Still, what’s worse is that this subculture is a version of humanity that claims we are nothing more than animals, which also happens to be a core tenet of the Church of Satan.” In one survey of “furries,” it was found that 96 percent of male respondents and 78 percent of females reported that they viewed furry pornography.
Robert Westman, the man who killed two Catholic children in a Minneapolis church in August, was also a “furry.” A trans man, who falsely claimed to be female, had a furry girlfriend. He said she was the “root of my suffering” and a “catalyst” for the attack. He also regretted “experimenting” with his sexual identity.
Those suffering from gender dysphoria need the right treatment. What they don’t need is to be encouraged to think that the heart of their problems is external to them. That is a gross disservice to them and to society at large.
By and large, the media do not want to draw attention to how violent prone many trans persons are. It’s a cover-up, and it needs to end.
