Safe Tucking

Back in February, we brought you a document from an American institution of higher learning on neopronouns.  Today, we bring you a new document on tucking from Doernbecher Children's Hospital at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).

So what is tucking?  Well, they're not talking about tucking in your shirt.  Oh no, this is rather more advanced.

As we did with the previous document, find the original document on the OHSU website here.  And the webpage offering this document and describing their gender services here.  Where you will also find a helpful handout on chest binding.  One can't help but wonder when did they drop the handout on foot binding?

You might recall that I had quite a bit of commentary on the whole neopronoun phenomenon.  Not the least of which reason was my view that pronouns are not ours, but rather belong to others.  And so the proponents of neopronouns want to inflict their nonsense on others.  That is the whole point of their narcissism.  This is very clearly the case; just watch how incensed they get when others don't play along.

Tucking is something people inflict on themselves.  But given the source, I do fear they are encouraging children to inflict this upon themselves as well.  One might ask, what does this do to the emotional development of children?  And what kind of people encourage this?

Now I can hear the proponents already:  Tucking and binding are relatively safe methods for individuals to try out a new body without resorting to the knife.

But maybe it would be better to invest in a good psychiatrist.

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The Good People of the Left

Rob Hoogland is in jail for the crime of being a responsible parent

A couple of days ago, Bruce Bawer summarized this story in A Certain Madness Amok:

[Judge] Bowden placed remarkable restrictions on Hoogland [the father].  He was forbidden to try to persuade A.B. [the 14-year-old daughter] to stop treatment [sex-change therapy].  He was forbidden to address her by her birth name.  He was forbidden, in any conversation with anyone, to refer to her as a girl or to use female pronouns to describe her.  If he were to do any of these things, ordered Bowden, it would be “considered to be family violence” — yes, violence — under the Family Law Act.  That’s par for the course today, when certain words are viewed as acts of violence, while objective acts of violence — such as the use of chemicals to permanently alter developing bodies, and the use of scalpels to remove healthy organs — are regarded as purely benign.

This is an important article.  Leftist thinking on the whole trans issue is truly bizarre.  But hey, if they want to live in a fantasy world of their own making, so be it.

But it is not enough for them to believe it themselves.  They need all of us to believe it.  In fact, they require us to believe it.  It's bad enough that they indoctrinate credulous children.  Now they are outright abusing children; sacrificing children on the altar of their factitious ideology.  Emotionally damaging and even physically mutilating children, without parental knowledge or consent.  Hoogland refers to it as grooming.  But what we have here is state-sponsored child abuse, causing irreversible damage.

And even that is not enough.  If a parent tries to prevent such abuse?  Even if he merely speaks out against it?  Jail him.  He's not a parent, he is a dissident.

If the Left feels free and justified to act in this manner, on this issue, can there be any limit to their exploits?  And their power.  It should be noted that this is not some far-left fringe element.  This is the Canadian establishment.  The more moderate, center-left types either condone this totalitarian behavior or they tolerate it or they outright support it.

We simply must stop thinking of left-of-center types as good people.  They are anything but.

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The Catholic Church in 2019

The Catholic Church is morally bankrupt and the time has come to ask about the people who continue to support it.

In the year 2019, after seventeen years of reported abuse cases, if you are still supporting the Catholic Church, financially or otherwise, I think you should ask yourself a simple question:  Am I a good person?

You supported the church for all these years.  But, you claim, you did not know the horrors of priestly behavior.  Okay.  Okay, but now you do know.  Now that these issues, these sins, have been brought into the light, that is no longer a legitimate excuse.

Another argument seems to be:  But the church does so much good.  Why withhold support just because of a few bad apples?  Well for one thing, no one can seriously argue, any longer, that it is only a few.  And for another, this, these problems, and certainly how they have been dealt with, stretch right up to the top of the church hierarchy.

We now know that it has not only been the priests who have sinned.  But some of the good sisters as well.  The way they handled unwed mothers for a start.  And now we learn of rape in their quarters as well.

And the problem goes beyond the Catholic clergy and extends into the Catholic community at large.  Those who knew what was going on but kept quiet about it or facilitated it, or even helped cover it up.  Doctors, nurses, police, prosecutors, social workers, teachers, other influential & important members of the laity, and yes, even some of the parents.

If you are religious and if you need the support of an organized church, why not find an alternative?  If you are a priest or a nun, that is those of you who are truly good-hearted individuals, why continue to associate yourself with such behavior?  Are you not repelled by it?  Your continued support, congregant, nun, and priest alike, implies tacit approval of this behavior AND the manner in which it has been handled by the church hierarchy.  I urge you to disassociate yourself from both.

I'll leave you with this thought:  What percentage of Nazi's were actual decision makers or participants in the atrocities?  And whatever the answer to that question, what do we think about those who were not decision makers or participants?  Some knew, some suspected, some tolerated.  Some stuck their heads in the sand.  All did nothing.

What do we think of them?
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