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• 11-Year-Old Transgender Girl: This Is the Speech Obama Should Have Given at the Inauguration

  January 23, 2013 at 8:55pm

  In reply to DefyTYRANNY.

  Bro Chuck- Again, you don’t know me. You have no idea what I am choosing or doing or even what I do believe. Therefore you do not get to tell me that it is not in line with what God does or does not want.

  Around the world, millions of people believe just as earnestly as you. Some are Muslim, some are Hindu, others are Christians of various types. They all feel that they are right in their beliefs. I feel that I am right in mine. You do not have any knowledge of what I believe, except that I feel that transgender children should be supported. You are being presumptuous my inferring anything more than that. You are being judgmental by assuming that you know better than I do. Who are you to decide that what you believe is any more right than what I believe or what any other believer around the world believes? I am not trying to change your beliefs. It doesn’t matter what you believe to me. I merely would like you to not force your beliefs on me, or anyone else.

• 11-Year-Old Transgender Girl: This Is the Speech Obama Should Have Given at the Inauguration

  January 23, 2013 at 8:12pm

  In reply to DefyTYRANNY.

  Bro Chuck- You claim that you will leave my judgement to God, and yet you proceed to make endless judgements on me and others. You describe “[my] kind” without knowing me, make inferences on my dress without having seen me. You have no idea how I live my life, make decisions, and view God’s plan. Yet you act as though you do know, and as though you have a direct line to God’s intentions. Do you converse directly with Him? Why are you so special over the billions of people who believe in a concept of God that you know more than they do? Perhaps God chose for this girl and many others to be transgendered. Perhaps it was a test. Maybe he made a mistake. Maybe he had nothing to do with it at all. I don’t know. I don’t pretend to know. What I do know is that a little girl should be able to live her life without denying herself. If you think that God would like her to do otherwise than I do not want to know your God who would allow for something apparently wrong to happen to a little girl and then let her suffer.

  I have no problem with religion whatsoever. But, I do have a problem with people like you judging me without knowing anything about me, and assuming you know better than I, or anyone else, about religion. Religion is based on faith. Which means you have no proof, only trust and belief. I understand that I could never change your mind about something like that, but I also understand that you may not be the only one with the truth, others might have some as well.

• 11-Year-Old Transgender Girl: This Is the Speech Obama Should Have Given at the Inauguration

  January 23, 2013 at 8:04pm

  In reply to DefyTYRANNY.

  Defytyranny- I don’t mean to be rude, but excuse me if I am not overtly impressed by your expertise in the area of hormone-suppressants and sex-change operations as your only credentials are your wife’s employer. And you’re right, a child this young may not know who they will be in ten years. That’s why they cannot have the actual operation as a child, and why therapy is required to make any moves into the process to asess the child’s state of mind, and why some may socially transition but hold off on taking hormone suppressants for as long as possible.

• 11-Year-Old Transgender Girl: This Is the Speech Obama Should Have Given at the Inauguration

  January 23, 2013 at 7:35pm

  In reply to Tri-ox.

  Dogtags- Why would someone choose to behave homosexually, if they knew they would receive such discrimination from people like you? One of my dear friends grew up very conservative and Catholic. He dated girls for a while, and tried to make the relationships work, they just never went anywhere. He just wasn’t interested. In girls, that is. However, his family would disapprove of his homosexuality, and so he tried to repress it….but it didn’t work. He spiralled into depression and self-destructive behavior, because he hated himself for something he couldn’t control. He’s doing much better now, he’s happier, and he’s begun to accept himself- accept that his being gay was not his fault, and it certainly wasn’t a choice, he fought it tooth and nail, and it still won, because he couldn’t escape who he was.

  On the subject of the transgender girl, I ask you, what is so stupid about it? This girl has likely gone through hell trying to gain the right to be who she is. If it was all a phase that her parents stupidly encouraged and took too far, she surely would have given it up before now, rather than suffer certain abuse that she has. Abuse that did not come from parents who should be lauded for the support they give to their child, but from the outside world who would persecute a poor girl born with the deformity of another sex’s genitalia, and condemn her parents for trying to do what they thought was best for her to ensure her happiness and acceptance of self.

• 11-Year-Old Transgender Girl: This Is the Speech Obama Should Have Given at the Inauguration

  January 23, 2013 at 7:05pm

  In reply to DefyTYRANNY.

  No one did anything to this child….this child was tragically born into a body whose gender did not match the one they identified with.
  Furthermore, what on earth does this have to do with ‘deviants’ who adopt? I assume you mean gays by that term, and I would like to point out that no where does it say that the child had gay parents, and of the several cases of transgendered youth I have previous heard of, all the children were raised by their biological and heterosexual parents. So, even if being transgender was a mental illness, a choice, something forced, or whatever absurd and false label you could put on it, it really has nothing to do with gay parents. Or gays at all. Transgendered people can be straight, gay, or lesbian no matter their original physical or true gender. It is not a matter of sexuality, but rather of self.
  Also no one is mutilating children after birth. For a child to be prescribed the puberty-blocking hormones that most transgendered children take to ease the process of having a sex change, they must have engaged in extensive therapy sessions. And no one is performing the sex change operations until after they have gone through puberty, likely until they are adults. At which point they can consciously be sure that it is something they want to go through with and it is undoubtedly not forced upon them in any way. Giving a child a tattoo or a sex change operation would be mutilation, you’re right on that point, but no one is doing that here.

• Is Obama Already the Greatest President of All-Time? Watch His Supporters Give Some Surprising Answers

  January 23, 2013 at 9:38am

  In reply to 1TrueOne55.

  Endthemindlessspending- It is a woman’s choice. It is her uterus and her life that could be risked with a full-term pregnancy and could be made responsible for a child she might not be able to or want to support. During the first trimester and most of the second, at least, a fetus is not able to survive on it’s own. Biologically speaking, it is a parasite. Therefore the woman has a right to choose whether she wants to keep it inside of her or not. Now if you don’t want to fund her choice, that’s fine. You don’t. Most Planned Parenthood establishments do not perform abortions, and government funding does not ever go to support abortions. Also, PP seeks to limit abortions, STDs, and unplanned parenthood through education and birth control. So if you support them, you are actually supporting stopping people from spreading “STDs like giving out candy on Halloween”.

  Sonnetswan- We devalue life by weighting a fetus that cannot live independently more than its mother’s life. I am not advocating choosing who is fit to live and exterminating the weak for the good of society like something out of Huxley’s Brave New World, I merely said that birth control can be used beneficially to prevent children from being born with horrible diseases and have a life characterized by suffering if it can be predicted. I am actually valuing life, by tryin to ensure that life is able to be lived with minimal suffering and as positively as possible.

• Is Obama Already the Greatest President of All-Time? Watch His Supporters Give Some Surprising Answers

  January 23, 2013 at 6:16am

  In reply to 1TrueOne55.

  PDW- did you know that 60% of women who have abortions have children already? Not to mention those that go on to have children later in life. So, your argument is not exactly valid. Also the only one I see trying to tell people how to live their lives is you, after all you’re the one who gets to define what is and isn’t immoral, right?

  ….Wait……who exactly gave you that right again?

• Is Obama Already the Greatest President of All-Time? Watch His Supporters Give Some Surprising Answers

  January 23, 2013 at 6:15am

  PDW- did you know that 60% of women who have abortions have children already? Not to mention those that go on to have children later in life. So, your argument is not exactly valid. Also the only one I see trying to tell people how to live their lives is you, after all you’re the one who gets to define what is and isn’t immoral, right?

  ….Wait……who exactly gave you that right again?

• Is Obama Already the Greatest President of All-Time? Watch His Supporters Give Some Surprising Answers

  January 23, 2013 at 5:17am

  In reply to 1TrueOne55.

  4- Again, paraphrasing and vague references to one statement made by her over the course of her career are not indicative of her true beliefs. Though I could be inclined to agree with her on this one, many people seem quite unifit to raise children.
  5- It is my understanding that this remark so frequently attributed to Sanger was actually made by Dr. Edward Kempf, and distorted his meaning as well. I have yet to see this statement attributed to Sanger or referenced at all, outside of those who seek to defame her.
  6- This is getting quite boring- again, out of context, misleading, etc., etc.. However, should it not be strived for to keep mental and physical illness out of future generations? This was NOT Sanger’s main goal in her advocation of birth control. But to relate it to a modern issue, if a man and a woman both suffer from a disease such as AIDS, or carry the gene for Tay Sachs resulting in a 25% chance of giving it to their offspring, they should not be unable to have sex if they both consent and love each other, and yet it would irresponsible for them to do so without utilizing birth control, as to bring a child into the world with such a chance of suffering from a terrible disease would be cruel. A purpose of birth control is to allow potential parents of the “unfit” to have sex without worry of bringing into the world children who would do little more than suffer.

• Is Obama Already the Greatest President of All-Time? Watch His Supporters Give Some Surprising Answers

  January 23, 2013 at 5:04am

  In reply to 1TrueOne55.

  Contumacy- everything you just quoted was taken completely out of context, and it is quite easy to take quotes from anyone out of context and misrepresent them and portray them in a negative light as you have done.
  1- When saying that it would be merciful for a large family to kill an infant, she is of course referring to abortion, not the actual post-birth murder of a child, and she meant only if a family had so many preexisting members that it was not financially able to support another child. In which case, some would consider it to be merciful to never give birth to a child rather than bring it into a world in which it would be unable to be cared for and given a healthy, good life.
  2- Again, Sanger thought it better that a child never be born into a situation in which it would not be able to be cared for, such as a very poor or immigrant family that would never be able to provide for it. If a family knowingly and willingly brought a child into the world under such conditions, she was disgusted, only because she viewed it as cruel to all parties involved.
  3- I’ve heard references to Sanger’s desires for racial purification before, and yet, it always comes from conspiracy theorists whose personal agendas benefit from the demonization of Sanger and Planned Parenthood. I’ll address this one when you do more than quote someone quoting one speech of Sanger’s.