For all that the left are assiduously trying to muddy the waters, the science and etymology of sex and gender are really very simple. “Sex” and “gender” are the same thing — and they’re binary.
And that’s it.
Anyone who tries to claim otherwise is either a liar, an ignoramus, or a demented ideologue.
Chuck Todd may be all three.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy instructed NBC’s Meet the Press host Chuck Todd in basic biological principles and the moderator’s claim that gender is “a spectrum.”
Ramaswamy is also stating simple truths that millions of American voters have been waiting for a candidate with the guts to say: Leave the children alone.
“Under the age of 18, I think it’s perfectly legitimate to say that we won’t allow genital mutilation or chemical castration through puberty blockers,” Ramaswamy asserted to Todd on Sunday.
To which, Todd responded with the same idiotic, blithering dissembling as Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“You’re calling it that,” Todd retorted, “but how do you know it’s that? Again, how do you know? Are you confident that you know that gender is as binary as you’re describing it? Are you confident that it isn’t a spectrum? You know this as a scientist?”
Unlike so many leftists today, Ramaswamy knows very well what a woman is.
“Well, there’s two X chromosomes if you’re a woman, and an X and a Y – “ he began to explain, but Todd cut him off.
“There’s a lot of scientific research out there that says gender is a spectrum,” the NBC host interrupted.
No, there isn’t.
This is a spectrum.
This is gender.
But Ramaswamy countered:
Chuck, I respectfully disagree. Gender dysphoria, for most of our history all the way through the DSM-V, has been characterized as a mental health disorder, and I don’t think it’s compassionate to affirm that. I think that’s cruelty.
Todd then asked about parents who believe gender transition medical treatments and surgeries can help their children, or prevent them from committing suicide, as LGBTQ activists frequently claim.
We know the answer to that one, too: they’ve been lied to.
Recently, a group called Do No Harm, an organization of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, debunked a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine that claimed transgender and nonbinary young people who received “gender-affirming hormones” experienced positive effects, including increased life satisfaction and a decrease in suicidal ideation. Two of the 315 participants, however, did commit suicide, and 11 still experienced suicidal ideation.
Do No Harm observed in its report the study had numerous flaws, including the fact that it had no control group:
This study, despite the headlines it has received, is fatally flawed and borderline unscientific. Like other studies on the topic, it obfuscates rather than clarifies questions around the medical transition of children. Policymakers must accept that elite gatekeepers have become cheerleaders and that their recommendations on politicized topics warrant healthy skepticism.
In comments to The Star News Network in March, Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) said “there is NO objective, long-term evidence of psychological benefit from “gender-affirming care,” whatever those organizations – or their tiny elite of policymakers say”.
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In fact, the evidence is strong — and growing clearer — that not only does so-called “gender-affirming care” not help confused, delusional children, but that it leaves in its wake a lifetime of pain and misery. Not least, the likelihood of never experiencing orgasm, sterility and an increased risk of suicide.
All the lies about “spectrums” and “gender affirming care” are not going to save the people who inflicted these horrors on a generation of children.