BY Andrea Lafferty
AndreaLafferty.com June 12, 2009
Chastity Bono, the daughter of Sonny and Cher Bono, has just announced
that she'll undergo a so-called "sex change" operation to become a male. I am
grieving over this.
Bono has lived as a lesbian for the past 20 years, but
her Gender Identity Disorder (GID) has clearly progressed to the point where
she is now totally rejecting her biological sex.
Such self-hatred is normal among individuals who have GID. The ultimate in
self-hatred is the choice to have one's body mutilated by surgery in the vain
attempt to become another sex.
No one can change their sex. And, unless you're a hermaphrodite, you're
genetically a male or female from birth.
Chastity Bono is suffering from a mental condition, not a physical
condition that can be fixed by mutilating surgical procedures and testosterone
injections. She will always be a woman no matter what damage is done to her
body. And, she will always have this serious mental condition.
Psychiatrist Dr. Paul McHugh, who encouraged Johns Hopkins University to
stop doing so-called sex change operations years ago, has stated:
I have witnessed a great deal of damage from
sex-reassignment. The children transformed from their male constitution into
female roles suffered prolonged distress and misery as they sensed their
natural attitudes. Their parents usually lived with guilt over their
decisions—second-guessing themselves and somewhat ashamed of the fabrication,
both surgical and social, they had imposed on their sons. As for the adults
who came to us claiming to have discovered their "true" sexual identity and to
have heard about sex-change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted
from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by
preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex. We have wasted
scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by
collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately
prevent it.
He has clearly stated the obvious: Psychiatrists have been collaborating
with madness instead of trying to prevent or cure it.
The transgender activist movement, however, is on a march that will be
difficult to stop. Some physicians are now actually operating clinics for
children to prevent puberty so that GID kids can pick and choose what sex they
wish to be when they grow up!
Pediatricians are claiming that children are "born" transgender and must be
permitted to change sexes whenever they wish. Transgender activists like Pat
Califia are militant and unresponsive to appeals to reason. They have a
revolutionary zeal that must be stopped. If we cannot stop these sex radicals,
more and more kids will end up with tragic lives like Chastity Bono.