Science – Scientist attacked because of transgender theory
Ahh, the leftist science section has not taken to attacking another critic.
Ever notice that every time someone offers some other type of reasonable explanation for something the left automatically goes in to offensive “destroy your life, job, family, reputation, etc, etc” mode? Well, it’s happened again and this time the attack has come from the transgender community of the left. The political correct machine that functions to designate how people speak, think, and live their lives just about ran a man out of a job because he criticized the PC explanation of the transgender lifestyle.
The liberal Politically correct “consensus” is that Transgenders are affected by a biological mistake and that Men were supposed to be Women and vice versa.
Bailey, the man who was harrassed, used his experience to describe the transgender lifestyle as a psychological function where the women/men have an erotic fascination of being the opposite sex. This actually makes more sense than the notion that there is a race of people that are born with some biological anomaly.
Why does the left and transgender crowd attack this? Because it labels them as what they are, which is psych-influenced perverts, and they don’t like facing the facts in that matter.
People may disagree with my own view of the matter (as expressed with the “pervert” comment above) however I have the God-Given right to express it, and Bailey also has the right to evaluate the evidence which he has studied which pretty much shows that transgender lifestyles are created from psychological backgrounds instead of biological ones. At least someone came to Bailey’s defense.
“What happened to Bailey is important, because the harassment was so extraordinarily bad and because it could happen to any researcher in the field,” said Alice Dreger, an ethics scholar and patients’ rights advocate at Northwestern who, after conducting a lengthy investigation of Dr. Bailey’s actions, has concluded that he is essentially blameless. “If we’re going to have research at all, then we’re going to have people saying unpopular things, and if this is what happens to them, then we’ve got problems not only for science but free expression itself.”
Wow, kinda sounds familiar doesn’t it? I believe this same type of attacks on critics are being performed against the scientists who are debunking the false science behind Global Warming. I wonder why the left and PC crowd is always so quick to attack critics of their beliefs….
The Truth hurts maybe?
While I disagree with your “pervert” sentiment regarding transgendered people, I agree with you on the issue of harrassment and it’s negative affects on research.
For myself, I lean more towards the psychological explanation than the physical one, though some studies have shown transgendered people – before any sort of modification – having hormonal imbalances that are closer to the levels in the opposite gender than their own.
The PC crowd – what I call “The Cult of Tolerance” seems hell-bent on attacking anyone who believes anyone else is doing something wrong – well…except for themselves of course.
Well, the hormonal imbalances excuse for performing gender modification is a bit weak if you ask me. People who have testicular or ovarian cancer have the organs removed that produce these hormones (Estrogen, Testosterone) and they experience the problems associated with the result. Men lose hair in places, gain weight easier and star to form other questionable body shapes, and vice versa however these people don’t consider themselves now apart of the opposite sex.
It takes some sort, at least in my view, some sort of psychological fascination with the opposite sex to want to modify yourself in to becoming one of them.
I tend to agree with you on that point; I referenced the hormonal levels as an example of why I “lean” towards the psychological cause as opposed to fully subscribing to it. Thankfully for my sanity, bud sadly for my wallet, I’m not an expert on human psychology or abnormal brain development.
As a transsexual, I feel it important to not only say that the community at large is not “perverted” and we don’t have an erotic fascination with being the other sex.
If it was a mind thing, we would be treated with pills, not have our bodies altered. The treatment isn’t to fix the brain it’s to fix the body.