ROGD spreads like leprosy. This social contagion, this fatal disease, which forces parents to their knees to plead for sound philosophy, to challenge pharmacology’s fake panacea “therapy” that causes harm irreparably. I’m heartened poor Hippocrates did not live on for centuries to witness evil tragedies where souls are sold for golden greed and loving hearts of every creed are threatened, shamed, and told that we are toxic, transphobe families who don’t care for the least of these, who, dragged away, are promised peace and stripped of personalities. Their minds are filled with fitful dreams, death’s lust for virgins to appease.
This will sound petty, but actually leprosy (Hansen's Disease) is not very contagious and it takes years for the disease to become symptomatic after initial exposure. If left untreated, it does cause irreparable harm. People with leprosy have been stigmatized throughout human history and have suffered horrific social exclusion. People who have this disease have suffered as much from the social stigma as from the physical disease itself. Please avoid doing this as we fight transgender ideology and what it is doing to our children. https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/about/index.html#:~:text=Hansen's%20disease%20is%20caused%20by,and%20lining%20of%20the%20nose.
I'm always puzzled when my impeccable logic about the biology of the human person falls on deaf ears when dialoging with a trans advocate---but I shouldn't be. It is like a Tower of Babel. We are coming from two different precepts which have been clashing for at least 2500 years. Trans folks, channeling Plato, invoke idealism, the idea that intangible and subjective ideas are the only reality whereas trans critics are coming from the realism of Aristotle. We become like ships passing in the night. I wonder how we might initiate a deeper dialogue. Any ideas?
For me, this was the most on-target poem I have read on PITT:
"which forces parents to their knees
to plead for sound philosophy,
to challenge pharmacology’s
fake panacea “therapy”
that causes harm irreparably."
"who, dragged away, are promised peace
and stripped of personalities."
100% And, I'm still pleading to my daughter and the US years later. It Is Not Over.
This will sound petty, but actually leprosy (Hansen's Disease) is not very contagious and it takes years for the disease to become symptomatic after initial exposure. If left untreated, it does cause irreparable harm. People with leprosy have been stigmatized throughout human history and have suffered horrific social exclusion. People who have this disease have suffered as much from the social stigma as from the physical disease itself. Please avoid doing this as we fight transgender ideology and what it is doing to our children. https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/about/index.html#:~:text=Hansen's%20disease%20is%20caused%20by,and%20lining%20of%20the%20nose.
This could not be any more true.
well done good and faithful servant
Wow!! Wow! Thanks for your excellence in expression of this deadly thing. Thanks for the poetry that can lead to real therapy .
I'm always puzzled when my impeccable logic about the biology of the human person falls on deaf ears when dialoging with a trans advocate---but I shouldn't be. It is like a Tower of Babel. We are coming from two different precepts which have been clashing for at least 2500 years. Trans folks, channeling Plato, invoke idealism, the idea that intangible and subjective ideas are the only reality whereas trans critics are coming from the realism of Aristotle. We become like ships passing in the night. I wonder how we might initiate a deeper dialogue. Any ideas?
So perfectly all encompassing all the thoughts and emotions we go through on a daily basis. Thank you. 💖