Locker-room transgenders and your child's health
Exclusive: Jane M. Orient, M.D., warns of threats attendant to boys dressing with girls
November 17, 2015

An Obama administration ruling that a school must allow a transgender “girl” with male parts full access to the girls’ locker room, or lose federal Title IX funding, sparked a revealing exchange between Megyn Kelly and school Superintendent Daniel Cates on Fox News.

Kelly tried to entrap an uncomfortable official, who seemed to be reciting a memorized script in an effort to escape the wrath of parents, bureaucrats and lawyers on both sides. Their discussion about "balancing rights" with "privacy" and "nondiscrimination" ignored serious health issues. Though both profess concern for the vulnerable transgender child, they seem blind to the fact that he ("she") is being used as a pawn in a political/cultural war. They imply that parents' objections are solely about their girls' seeing body parts different from theirs.

Both are accepting seriously flawed assumptions.

First, both Kelly and Cates seem to believe the ACLU's assertion that a transgender (in this case male-to-female) person truly is a female "through and through" – and "as a matter of science." Cates says that the district "respects and honors" transgender students. Both Cates and Kelly refer to the student as a "girl" and use feminine pronouns.

In fact, the science cannot be clearer. There are two sexes. Leaving aside rare conditions such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, this is absolutely plain at birth, and not a matter of arbitrary "assignment." A person with a Y chromosome is through-and-through male in every cell in his body. If "Caitlyn" Jenner's skeleton is dug up a few hundred years from now, it will unequivocally be identified as male.

Second, they both assume that it is possible to convert a male into a female and that doctors are helping a patient affirm his true identity by so doing.

In fact, it is possible for a male to become a eunuch or female impersonator, but he will never be able to be somebody's natural mother. And what do we do to a boy to try to make him appear female? Do we have any information about the long-term effects of female hormones starting in childhood? Maybe we will eventually, if we follow today's experimental subjects – who are too young to consent and are likely not having the possible consequences spelled out. If castrated, they will lose forever the prospect of having natural offspring. And what will genital surgery do to urinary continence? How will hormones affect their risk of breast cancer? What about blood clots and strokes? And osteoporosis and fractures as they age? If adult athletes are forbidden to "dope" with steroids, why is it acceptable for children?

And what will happen to strength and lung capacity? Men have 40 percent greater body strength and 25 percent greater lung capacity. I doubt that transgender males will lose enough strength to completely cancel their advantage over girls. My 9-year-old nephew, still quite small, could easily handle a full-sized wheelbarrow filled with cement. But how much of their potential will they sacrifice? And what is the risk of injury to girls playing with them on the athletic field?

In psychiatry, it is generally taught that the doctor should not affirm a patient's delusions. Eventually, the transgender child will have to confront reality as an adult. He may well change his "self identification," but his chance to fully develop as a man may be irrevocably taken from him.

There are excellent reasons not to have boys and girls undressing in front of each other, and a transgender "girl" is just a wedge. The real agenda is to further the sexual and cultural revolution: to undermine the family, to stigmatize the Christian faith and indeed all traditional morality, and to break down all resistance to a totalitarian state that dictates belief and behavior.

Cates and Kelly are effectively on the same side, although Kelly is an aggressor and Cates a seemingly impotent substitute for real opposition. Public schools will not fully protect your daughter as federal policy enables sexual predators in the locker room, nor shield your sons and daughters from a morally corrupt environment, nor allow you to defend them from dangerous medicine.

If your school district will sacrifice your sons and daughters to comply with the agenda of the Obama administration, run for the nearest exit. Their physical, psychological and spiritual health is at risk in a radical social experiment.


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