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Sex change for 12-year-old girl

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And we thought this was bad… A court in Australia authorized a taxpayer-funded sex swap for a 12-year-old girl, despite her father’s objections (the mother is sad but supportive). 

The child’s lawyer told the court she considered the girl capable of making an informed decision.

The girl is one of the youngest patients in Australia granted permission to begin a sex swap.

The court was told early intervention was needed because the child was stressed and anxious at the prospect of starting her period and had threatened self-harm.

Hormones implanted under her skin every three months will stop her menstruating and prevent her hips and breasts growing.

The court heard the hormone therapy was reversible and would give the family “breathing time”.
A further court application must be lodged in coming years for testosterone treatment to deepen her voice and promote growth of facial hair and muscles.

Surgery to remove her womb or ovaries, or build an artificial penis must wait until she is at least 18.

Excuse me, I need to go take a crazy pill…

[h/t Mark Steyn]

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Tanya adds: Here’s some added insight into this story:

The court heard the hormone therapy was reversible and would give the family “breathing time” with progresive sex change treatments and operations requiring further court orders. The cousin questioned how “reversible” the treatment was. “There will be psychological consequences that are not reversible,” the cousin said. “I don’t think the side effects have been adequately considered. How people threat her will have an effect. “She will never have this time in her life again.”

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Andrea adds: I don’t mean to add an “I told you so” element to this discussion but first thing I thought when I read Brigitte’s post is that this girl cannot have had a happy family. And what do you know…

The girl had only expressed the strong desire to be a boy since the parents had a bitter break-up, according to the cousin.

The whole thing is so sad.

What am I supposed to do with my wardrobe now?

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Time to go shopping, I guess. In the Weekend Post yesterday: “Have you heard the news? The ‘ho’ look is over.”

Call me crazy, but I believe that there might just be more to being a woman than prancing around dressed up like a Stepford blow-up doll. Non? In my experience you gals are highly idiosyncratic creatures whose true essence is riddled with subtlety and nuance. Your sizzling sexuality is only one aspect of a complex and intriguing picture.

If it’s true that this trend is over–not a moment too soon.

Well. Now at least we know.

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A chilling piece in today’s Toronto Star. GTA’s secret world of polygamy:

Polygamy is happening in Toronto; it’s not common, but it’s happening,” said [Aly] Hindy, imam at Salahuddin Islamic Centre.

Hindy, hardly a stranger to controversy, is well known for his friendship with the family of Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and his outspoken views on the implementation of Islamic law. In the past five years, Hindy said he has officiated or “blessed” more than 30 polygamous marriages; the most recent was two months ago. Even some imams in the GTA have second wives, he added.

“This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion,” he said. “If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that.”

How much you wanna bet nobody forces him to choose?

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Rebecca adds: This is illegal, right? Is he not admitting to breaking the law by marrying people who are already married? 

Shall we take bets on how long until he’s arrested? [cue crickets chirping]

 

Alice Walker’s daughter writes

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What was it like growing up with a world-famous feminist mother? Not fun:

My mother’s feminist principles coloured every aspect of my life. As a little girl, I wasn’t even allowed to play with dolls or stuffed toys in case they brought out a maternal instinct. It was drummed into me that being a mother, raising children and running a home were a form of slavery. Having a career, travelling the world and being independent were what really mattered according to her.

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I was very lonely and, with my mother’s knowledge, started having sex at 13. I guess it was a relief for my mother as it meant I was less demanding. And she felt that being sexually active was empowering for me because it meant I was in control of my body.

Now I simply cannot understand how she could have been so permissive. I barely want my son to leave the house on a play-date, let alone start sleeping around while barely out of junior school.

A good mother is attentive, sets boundaries and makes the world safe for her child. But my mother did none of those things.

Although I was on the Pill  –  something I had arranged at 13, visiting the doctor with my best friend  –  I fell pregnant at 14. I organised an abortion myself. Now I shudder at the memory. I was only a little girl. I don’t remember my mother being shocked or upset. She tried to be supportive, accompanying me with her boyfriend.

Although I believe that an abortion was the right decision for me then, the aftermath haunted me for decades. It ate away at my self-confidence and, until I had Tenzin, I was terrified that I’d never be able to have a baby because of what I had done to the child I had destroyed. For feminists to say that abortion carries no consequences is simply wrong.

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I know many women are shocked by my views. They expect the daughter of Alice Walker to deliver a very different message. Yes, feminism has undoubtedly given women opportunities. It’s helped open the doors for us at schools, universities and in the workplace. But what about the problems it’s caused for my contemporaries?

The ease with which people can get divorced these days doesn’t take into account the toll on children. That’s all part of the unfinished business of feminism.

Then there is the issue of not having children. Even now, I meet women in their 30s who are ambivalent about having a family. They say things like: ‘I’d like a child. If it happens, it happens.’ I tell them: ‘Go home and get on with it because your window of opportunity is very small.’ As I know only too well.

Then I meet women in their 40s who are devastated because they spent two decades working on a PhD or becoming a partner in a law firm, and they missed out on having a family. Thanks to the feminist movement, they discounted their biological clocks. They’ve missed the opportunity and they’re bereft.

Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women into childlessness. It is devastating.

[h/t Michelle Malkin]

C for “child abandonment” in the self-help section

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A new book explains sagely how to leave your child successfully:

Expect also that your child may be “very, very angry.” Remember “even if the only thing your daughter has to say to you is how much she hates you, take heart. Hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is.” If your child sends an angry text message, “Let her express her anger without letting the content affect you too much,” writes Hart. Tell her, “I know you are very angry. I’m truly sorry that things have turned out this way.”

Very comforting for mothers in horrific family situations everwhere, I’m sure. The author is British–this is a real bang-up week for news from England, let me tell you. “God save the Queen?” God save England.

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Rebecca adds: It’s worth clarifying that this isn’t about how successfully to leave your child with a babysitter for the evening, or at a daycare during the work week. (We all know children who react with rage and betrayal at being left with a trusted sitter for three hours, once a year, so Mum and Dad can go to a restaurant.) It’s about mothers who choose not to live with their (quite young) children.

Yet another taboo that we’re well on the way to normalizing, it seems.

Why we’re not allowed to question the “choice” mantra

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By now you’ve heard the story that the abortion rate in Canada declined in the most recent survey period. Good, and yet, really–not good enough.

 

If we take the Guttmacher Institute’s (research arm of Planned Parenthood, an American group) reasons for why women have an abortion, and we take the number of abortions in Canada, 96,815 for 2004-2005, approximately the following number of people were not born in Canada for the following reasons that year:

(please note we have no Canadian equivalent of the Guttmacher stats so this is all very approximate)

 

20,330 people died for inadequate finances

20,330 people died because the woman isn’t ready

15,490 people died because the woman’s life would change too much

11,618 people died because there are problems in the relationship; the woman is unmarried

10,650 people died because the girl is too young

7,745 people died because the woman has all the children she wants

2,904 people died because the woman has a health problem

2,904 people died because the baby has health problems

968 people died because of rape or incest

3,873 people died for “other” reasons.  

(Average number of reasons given, 3.7)

 

I gather this is why we’re not allowed to question “a woman’s choice”: once you begin to question that, you wonder whether these are good reasons for killing people. Everyone, of course, draws their own line in the sand somewhere. 

 

Oh, and yes, I’ve heard the “I hope you are a pacifist” argument—indeed, were a war waged exclusively against women and children, I would protest it. That’s all I have to say about that.

Life begins at conception…

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Maybe I’m sheltered, but I never heard that expression called ‘Christian’ before. So this was a bit of a first for me:

The law added a strict Christian construct to the preamble of the Missouri constitution — that life begins at conception and therefore unborn children have protectable rights.

Instead of going into a list of medical professionals willing to profess that human life makes its beginnings at the moment of conception (and I could), I have a question instead.

When does it begin, then? If it is not conception, when is it? At birth? Whose birth? The child born at 40 weeks gestational age has more rights, then, than a child of 40 weeks not yet born. And what do we then make of premature children? Is it at the age of viability? Does the definition of life then change depending on how advanced medical technology is? Should not something like when life begins be unwavering and unshakeable?

Okay, so that was more than one question.

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The 11 pm update: When asked, “When DOES life begin, then? Scientifically speaking, of course,” (in the comments section) there was no actual answer.

There was this:

…is abortion really murder if the women is never charged with murder?

And this:

Let’s acknowledge the life in front of us, instead of the debatable “life” which we cannot agree is a murder victim.

So apparently, nothing is wrong unless it’s a crime. Abortion, therefore, was wrong only when it was illegal. Try to get a pro-choicer to agree to that one!

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Andrea adds: There are avenues of questioning that pro-abortion people are completely unwilling to address. They pretend the question of when life begins can’t be answered, or that the answer is personal. But medical textbooks, too bad for them, are fond of that pro-life myth that new life begins at conception. Now the disturbing thing of course is that pro-abortion people are beginning to address this. The new response: Yes, we know it’s a child. But we don’t care.

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Rebecca adds: “…is abortion really murder if the women is never charged with murder?”

As Jonah Goldberg brilliantly pointed out in Liberal Fascism, the left, which is where most most pro-choicers fall, is characterized by a creeping totalitarianism which wants everything bad to be criminalized and everything good to be mandatory. To someone so inclined, morality outside the law doesn’t exist – so if it’s not illegal, of course it’s not wrong!

A Jew living under Antiochus, or a Christian in pre-Constantine Rome, would not have been at all surprised at the idea that something could be both legal and abominable. One of the pitfalls of living in a civilized country that is an heir to the Judeo-Christian tradition is that it is easy for us to forget how barbaric life can be in the absence of these influences. Are honour killings immoral? They are de facto legal in Jordan, where the authorities winkingly impose minimal sentences in cases where they involve themselves at all. How about honour killings in Canada? Or was Aqsa Parvez’ father just exercising his right to choose?

With friends like these…

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I don’t get it:

The vice-chairman of the British All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group (APPPLG), told the House of Commons yesterday that she is pro-abortion, but wishes women would choose life.

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Tanya gets it: I hear it all the time, just like Mrs. Claire Curtis-Thomas says…

 

“I believe that women should have the right to choose; I just hope that they do not choose to have an abortion.”

 

It’s all the same, to me, as making abortion ‘legal, safe, and rare.’ (That Clinton mantra.)

 

It’s being uncomfortable with abortion yet attempting to stay within the realm of political correctness. Honestly, politicians (and citizens) like that get nothing of lasting value accomplished.

 

What Planned Parenthood Ottawa just doesn’t (appear to) do

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Say you are facing a crisis pregnancy and you need crisis pregnancy counseling. Where do you go?

 

If charitable agency filings with Canadian Revenue Agency are correct, not Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood Edmonton and Waterloo devote 30 per cent of the budget to crisis counselling, and though it’s not clear, Planned Parenthood Toronto may do the same. Planned Parenthood Ottawa—only 5 per cent.

 

The others? None.

 

How Planned Parenthood spends its resources is copied below. But check the Canada Revenue Agency to see for yourself. 

 

Could be that I’m missing something. Maybe they offer counseling and don’t itemize it that way for Revenue Canada. But right now it sure does look hypocritical that Planned Parenthood Ottawa would complain about places like First Place Pregnancy Centre. First Place is just doing what Planned Parenthood appears not to: Ongoing crisis counseling and long-term support.

 

 

The following is taken from the Revenue Canada website:  

Program areas: The three primary areas in which the charity is now carrying on programs to achieve its charitable purposes are listed below. The program areas are ranked according to the percentage of time and resources devoted to each program area.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OTTAWA-CARLETON/PLANNING DES NAISSANCES D’OTTAWA-CARLETON, 2005

1          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)          F8                  50%

2          Public education, other study programs                      C10               45%

3          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling   A11                5%

 

 

Planned Parenthood Toronto 2006

Rank   Description                                                                  Field Code   % of
Emphasis

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   30%

2           Specialized health organizations (see guide)            F9                   30%

3           Clinics                                                                      F3                   30%

 

 

Planned Parenthood Edmonton 2006

1          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling          A11     34%

2          Public education, other study programs                            C10      33%

3          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)                 F8        33%

 

Planned Parenthood Fredericton 2005

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)          F8                   85%

2           Public education, other study programs                     C10                 15%

 

Planned Parenthood Regina 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

Planned Parenthood Saskatoon 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

Planned Parenthood Hamilton 2006

1           Clinics                                                                       F3                   80%

2           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   20%

 

Planned Parenthood Waterloo 2007

1          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling          A11     30%

2          Public education, other study programs                            C10     30%

3          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)                        F8        20%

Trying to lift the mood…

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I know the news out of the UK isn’t uplifting today. That human-animal hybrid thing is certainly bad – though in many ways, not surprising. So I thought I’d go looking for fun stories to act, you know, as counterbalance. I’m afraid I was only mildly successful…

The Merry Wives Cafe, located in Hilldale, Utah, is owned and operated by polygamist group members with a sense of business, humor and public relations. The cafe opened last year to give locals and travelers a place to eat. The owners also opened it as a way to gently confront polygamy’s battered image. It is not immediately obvious that the cafe has any connection to polygamy, though to sharp diners, there are clues.

“We’re not trying to shove [polygamy] in people’s faces,” says manager Cherise Dutson. “But, this is how we live, and it’s our heritage.”

Diners looking closely at the decades-old family portraits on the café walls will notice a common theme: a single patriarch, multiple wives and multitudes of kids.

And then there’s the café’s name and logo. “The Merry Wives” is borrowed from Shakespeare, and the logo depicts three cooks, all women and, presumably, plural wives.

[h/t iMAPP]

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