If you were one of the pietist pastors telling people to stop warning about the slippery slope in 2004, now is the time to repent.
Let me set up this article before we dive into the quotes. Jennifer Lahl and Katie Fell of the The Center for Bioethics and Culture published an article on Dr. Colin Wright's Substack that details a new academic paper arguing that women on cross-sex hormones to look like a man should not face any stigma when getting pregnant.
A provocative new paper in the journal Qualitative Research in Health titled "Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the ‘normal': Decision-making around testosterone therapy in transgender pregnancy" by [Carla A.] Pfeffer and colleagues propels us further down the road of medical malpractice.
The authors, a group of transgender sociologists and enthusiasts, and healthcare activists, with not one medical degree among them, argue to dramatically move the goal posts of medical ethics, choosing to completely disregard the health, safety, and well-being of the developing fetus, all in the name of "trans" inclusion.
The authors of this paper argue that "normal" is subjective, so if a baby is harmed by the chemical soup of a mother who has a child despite taking hormones to look like a man, we are bigots if we criticize any deformities.
No, really, that's the Marxist groupthink in action here.
Back to the screenshot in Wright's tweet:
The authors argue that "gendered" pregnancy care is too focused on helping women have healthy babies, and that it might be okay for transmen to continue taking testosterone during pregnancy despite the known health risks to the fetus and effects on its normal development. The desire for "normal fetal outcomes," according to the authors, is rooted in a problematic desire "to protect their offspring from becoming anything other than ‘normal'" and "reflect historical and ongoing social practices for creating ‘ideal' and normative bodies."
In other words:
Understand that Critical Theory (Marxism) is not just applied to race. Marxism seeks to overturn the natural order of things. It started by overturning the more subjecting (how people interact with each other in the economy, for example) and now it's moved to fixed realities that involve chromosomes on the cellular level.
Wherever there are perceived problems, there must be total revolution. A genderqueer Marxist would fix a dripping faucet by burning the whole house down and calling that progress.
That's why the natural desire to protect children from harm is now deemed bigoted!
In the paper, Pfeffer et al. maintain that:
'[L]acking and uncertain medical evidence (HRT with testosterone during pregnancy and chest feeding) in a highly gendered treatment context (pregnancy and lactation care), both patients and providers tend to pursue precautionary, offspring-focused treatment approaches.'
"Chest feeding."
"Offspring-focused treatment."
These people are robots. "Men without chests," and of the highest order.
Pfeffer and colleagues write that most participants in their study use testosterone "as a critical medically managed component of their transition" and that there are concerns and fears about pausing testosterone prior to or during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Specifically, pausing testosterone would make "public recognition as a man more challenging" and might increase body dysphoria and depression, including postpartum depression. We have to stop here, rub our eyes, and shake our heads. Why would someone wanting to pass as a male desire to take on the very female task of pregnancy? Not only that, but none of the stated concerns or fears of stopping testosterone during pregnancy, postpartum, or while breastfeeding are life-threatening or permanent conditions. There are ways to safely manage depression and body dysphoria that don't involve potentially harmful compounds.
These women want everything without sacrifice. They want to look like a man on the outside while also living out their deep-seated maternal desire to bring new life into the world.
But a man doesn't get to have the latter. Because he is a man, the maternal world will never be accessible to him. He is stronger and less vulnerable, yes, but he will never know what it is like to grow or feed a child with his own body. He will never have the body or brain chemistry that only mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters understand. There is a unique power among women that is and always will be foreign to men, no matter how modern technology may seek to turn us into Frankenstein's monster.
The sheer evil behind this thought process is hard to understand.
Tell me, is it likewise okay for an alcoholic mother to drink herself three sheets to the wind while pregnant? What about a mom who smokes four packs of cigarettes a day? What if she enjoys a line of crack cocaine a few times a week?
If it is wrong to judge the harm that a woman taking hardcore cross-sex hormones may cause to her baby, why should we judge any woman for any harm she does to any child?
For that matter, why stop with harm done before birth? If sex and biology is a matter of preference, why not time? I've long said that if our actual chromosomes don't matter, why should our telomeres (length of our DNA that signifies aging)? A 50-year-old man is far closer, genetically speaking, to an 8-year-old boy than to a woman. He's even closer still to someone with a different gene that codes for skin color. It would therefore be more scientifically logical for me to identify as a black boy than as a woman.
And yet these categories are off limits, according to the activists!
But if biology is a preference, so is time; therefore, why judge a woman for how she harms her child, no matter the child's age??
Pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding are stages known to be associated with dramatic hormonal shifts. Physicians must consider these factors when counseling a patient who is also taking exogenous hormones, like testosterone. The effects of external testosterone on the female body during pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding remain unknown.
It seems that at least one of the the doctors interviewed agreed:
'I think if you choose to have a pregnancy and your female hormone levels would be already so high that testosterone probably wouldn't even mentally help… if you're producing breast milk and you couldn't be without testosterone for mental health… if you couldn't deal without testosterone, then you probably shouldn't be pregnant.'
