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Transgender ideology exposed » MercatorNet

For parents, this 30-minute panel discussion at the Values Voter Summit in Washington DC, organised by the Family Research Council, last weekend is a terrific summary of the transgender issue. Dr Paul McHugh, an experienced psychiatrist, gives a quick overview of how transgender kids should be treated. Dr Michelle Cretella, the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, reveal...

The gender identity phantom » MercatorNet

The New York Times article "Helping Pediatricians Care for Transgender Children" pitches the American Academy of Pediatrics policy paper on comprehensive care for transgender adolescents [1,2]. This care includes the most radical and risky of hormone manipulations and surgeries. There is a concept defined called "gender identity" which has no physical presence and apparently can only be made kn...

The transgender moment » MercatorNet

I’m not an expert, just a journalist. There are many kinds of journalists, from do-anything-to-make-a-headline investigative journalists to sub-editors who turn run-on sentences dripping with adjectives into readable prose. Part of the job description is not to be an expert. As a famous British journo of the 70s noted, a good journalist should have "a reluctance to understand too much too well ...

Homosexuality, Marriage and Society » MercatorNet

Twenty years ago Australia had a Year of Tolerance, courtesy of a quasi-governmental educational body. Among the materials sent to schools were glossy leaflets promoting a homosexual lifestyle. As a principal at the time I returned them with a note explaining that the parents in my school would not accept promotion of homosexuality to their children and so I would not be using them. Crime repor...

Second-wave feminism was wrong. Sex matters » MercatorNet

A morning NPR story on how women manifest anger differently from men was just the latest reminder of something we all know, and Mona Charen wants to make sure we don’t forget: sex matters. Men and women are fundamentally different in many ways that she catalogs in her latest book of the same name, Sex Matters, and pretending otherwise has resulted in a havoc that she maps out in detail. The boo...