Beyond simply dealing with Dr. Zucker, I review how a medical facility has basically been forced to change its science based methods due to socio-political feelings based activism. These changes are officially admitted to be based on how “society has also shifted in its understanding and acceptance of gender variance.” That medically trained personnel are to “Refrain from treatment of the child that targets reduction of gender-variant behaviors or use of language that pathologises these.” And also, how there are such things are “gender-affirming hormones.”
I will break up this report so as to cover trans-suicide causes, Dr. Zucker’s ousting from academia and the external review of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health—find all segments of this report here.
Stick with me on this one as it is a wild ride.
The focus upon Dr. Kenneth J. Zucker within John Conroy’s BBC documentary Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?—which you can view here—has brought with it a lot of controversy which I thought to review since much of it is socio-political and not scientific.
Dr. Zucker is a psychologist and sexologist. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Also, the Psychologist-in-Chief at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. And the Head of the Gender Identity Service. Plus the Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto. Served as Member of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions. As well as Chair of the American Psychiatric Association workgroup on “Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders” for the 2012 edition of the DSM-5 and had served on workgroups for the DSM-IV and the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).
Additionally he has many more accolades, credits to his name, etc. for example, he spent more than two decades collating research and clinical data which resulted in his recognition as an international authority on gender identity disorder in children (GIDC) and adolescents.
An example of the outcry comes from Jenny Alto who wrote to the BBC so as to complain:
It treated adult activists in the transgender community as dangerous meddlers in the treatment of others when in fact they are the survivors of exactly the kind of abuse that doctors like Zucker practice… This programme was nothing short of an outright attack on a vulnerable and marginalised minority, and in particular on members of that minority who are too young to speak for themselves.
Transgender people have a significantly higher incidence of suicide than the general population, and because of attitudes…People kill themselves because of the views the BBC is promoting with programmes like this one.
You may agree, think that this is too much or something else yet, this is exactly how the average adult activist in the transgender community reacts: blame other and pepper blame with scare tactics. Subsequently, she wrote to the BBC again to predict, in a manner of speaking, “when the first young trans person has committed suicide because of it what are you going to say to the transgender community then? You can count on it, we won’t let you get away.” In other words, when tragically any young trans person commits suicide at any time after the release of the documentary Jenny Alto, et al., will take it upon themselves to blame the BBC, blame John Conroy, blame Dr. Kenneth J. Zucker, in other words: point fingers all other the place in blame not realizing that when you point one finger at someone there are three fingers pointing back at you.
There are very many factors which go into why there is a shockingly high level of suicide within those who live an LGBTQP lifestyle and employ LGBTQP as a worldview. A few examples are that they are literally rebelling against their bodies: they use them in manners in which they were not intended. As their bodies naturally build a certain frame, shape and brain they take hardcore pharmaceuticals so as to arrest its development. Their nervous system is not able to develop in the manner in which it was meant to. There is also the issue of very many LGBTQP personages being LGBTQP due to childhood sexual molestation, etc., etc., etc.
Thus, there is a lot more to it than: documentary + bullying or self-imposed feelings of shame = suicide. I wrote to Alto that “she had referred to “bogus half-truths” and so that she, herself, does not fall into that characterization I pointed out that it is accurate make the claim she did regarding suicide. The research shows that even within countries/cultures wherein such lifestyles are accepted, affirmed, praised, etc. the suicide rates are just as high. For example, “the same dysfunctions exist at inordinately high levels among homosexuals in cultures where the practice is more widely accepted” as per Sandfort, T.G.M.; de Graaf, R.; Bijl, R.V.; Schnabel. Same-sex sexual behavior and psychiatric disorders. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 58 (2001): 85-91.
For much, much more info about how destructive LBGTQP lifestyles are see here.
For their part, the BBC replied to Jenny Alto and, in part, noted that Dr. Zucker “believes he was fired for challenging the gender affirmative approach” and that the documentary, “included significant contributions from his critics and supporters of gender affirmation, including transgender activists in Canada and leading medical experts as well as parents with differing experiences of gender dysphoria and gender reassignment.”
Having traced the history of how view on LGBTQP have changed over time are not due to science but due to socio-political activism—along with a general decline in ethics—I recognized certain key terms such as “challenging the gender affirmative approach” meaning just that: daring to disagree with the direction in which the culture was taking itself based on feelings. In fact, that is part of the sharp dichotomy between the science and the activism. It used to be hoped that a “gay gene” or some such thing would be found but this not only never happened but is now viewed as irrelevant. What matters now? What is the driving force behind the LGBTQP movement? Feelings, nothing more than feelings. This is why if a non-gender-specific personage feels male today and female tomorrow and both the next day and neither the day after that: all of culture including architecture such as bathrooms are to bend and twist and turn so as to accommodate the fleeting and ever changing feelings de jour.
This is also the point of the documentary: mere children are being place in the cultural driving seat. Mere children are being told that if they feel a certain way then they are to get on a regimen of hardcore body and mind altering cocktail of drugs which will change them for the rest of their lives—and if anyone disagrees they can lose their jobs, their businesses, their careers, their otherwise good name, be boycotted, etc.
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