Annie.e's Comments
There are already more than enough people on earth, and thousands of teens who will age out of foster care having *never* found a stable family to be a part of. I am pro-choice, but just because I support the Duggars' right to choice does not mean I think they are making the right one. I still wonder why people like this - who want lots and lots of babies - do not more often choose to adopt or provide long-term foster care, as well? A child who *already exists* needs to be loved as well, and especially as the Duggars proclaim their debt-free status very often... you would not think it would be a financial strain on them, as it might be on others.
On the topic of foster care, I would just like to point out that giving birth to 18 children does not make the Duggars "America's largest family". There are plenty of people in the United States who have adopted 20+ children out of foster care, or, if they are not the legal parents of that many children, still CARE for that number. (Do not know if there are any families that have adopted 20+ internationally, or closed adoption at the child's birth.)
On the topic of foster care, I would just like to point out that giving birth to 18 children does not make the Duggars "America's largest family". There are plenty of people in the United States who have adopted 20+ children out of foster care, or, if they are not the legal parents of that many children, still CARE for that number. (Do not know if there are any families that have adopted 20+ internationally, or closed adoption at the child's birth.)
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In the Middle Ages there was a Saints' Cult devoted to a greyhound - based on that urban myth about a dog killing a snake, the master thinking the snake's blood is his child's and killing the dog, then feeling bad when he realise the dog saved the child instead of hurting it.
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"He is a psychologically disturbed man. And any medical personnel who would pretend that they could do anything about that are criminals. Case closed."
The official recommendations from PSA re: gender dysmorphia are that once you have established by certain stringent tests, and therapy sessions, that a person's gender (psychological/internal male/femaleness and social constructs of masculinity/femininity) is different from their sex (physical male/femaleness), the treatment will seek to reconcile this difference by changing SEX and thus treatment should continue as that person wishes, including and up to the point of 'sex reassignment surgery'. So the way to 'do [something] about [it]' is to reassign sex, so that sex and gender will match. This is not *at all* criminal in most first-world countries.
The surgeries do not change the gender as this is psychological; it is arguable that they change sex as certain characteristics will remain. What is important is how the person can get by in society and how they feel they fit in. Even if you still feel they are their original sex, what does it matter? Are they hurting you?
The official recommendations from PSA re: gender dysmorphia are that once you have established by certain stringent tests, and therapy sessions, that a person's gender (psychological/internal male/femaleness and social constructs of masculinity/femininity) is different from their sex (physical male/femaleness), the treatment will seek to reconcile this difference by changing SEX and thus treatment should continue as that person wishes, including and up to the point of 'sex reassignment surgery'. So the way to 'do [something] about [it]' is to reassign sex, so that sex and gender will match. This is not *at all* criminal in most first-world countries.
The surgeries do not change the gender as this is psychological; it is arguable that they change sex as certain characteristics will remain. What is important is how the person can get by in society and how they feel they fit in. Even if you still feel they are their original sex, what does it matter? Are they hurting you?
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I don't feel I should have much of a say on how schools are run in America, given I don't live there, but I can't help but think the citizens would be better served if more people put their effort into fixing the REASONS people would lie about their district.