Every time you think transgender ideology couldn’t get more demented, along comes another mini-Mengele to prove you wrong.
If you thought reducing women to “individuals with a cervix”, or “menstruating persons”, and vaginas to “bonus holes” is barking mad enough, think again. If you thought chemically and surgically mutilating and sterilizing children is about as evil as the medical profession can get, you’re sadly mistaken.
Because now we’re at the stage where Queer Theorists are openly arguing that stunted, malformed babies are of no concern in comparison to nurturing the fetishes of gender-confused lunatics.
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 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.
Normal female testosterone levels range from 15-70 nanograms per decilitre (ng/dL) of blood. So-called “trans-men” (gender-confused women, in other words) are injected with testosterone to raise their levels to the male normal range of 300-1000 ng/dL. That is: up to nearly 70 times normal female levels.
Taking heavy doses of male hormones during pregnancy is known to dramatically affect fetal development. Merely doubling (as compared to multiplying by nearly 70 times, as is standard in “trans-men”) testosterone levels in rats results in significantly underweight babies. High levels of testosterone in the pregnant mother is also tentatively linked to the prevalence of autism in the child.
Who cares? say the Queer Theorists. It’s the “birthing person’s” fetishes that really matter.
Only bigots want healthy children, after all.
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.”
This is, quite frankly, insane.
When it comes to Queer Theory, though, “insane” is just a Tuesday.
Before continuing, we must point out the obvious flaw in the article: pregnancy care isn’t “gendered,” it’s sexed. Only the biologically fertile human females of our species possess the physical attributes necessary for pregnancy and childbirth. This is a simple biological reality.
Before continuing, I must also point out the obvious flaw in the above paragraph: “gendered” and “sexed” are the same thing. Even claiming otherwise is to cede ground inadvisedly to the Queer Theorists. There is no such thing as a magical, free-floating “gender”. Gender is sex, sex is gender. They’re both different words for the same thing: the biological fact of being male or female.
Arguing otherwise is to get sucked into the deceitful word-games of Queer Theory. But it’s a grim sign of how much the academy has been captured by the lies of the Queer Theorists that even its critics have to pay homage to some of its most fundamental mendacities.
Presently, testosterone is classified as a teratogenic, US FDA pregnancy category X drug, suggesting it can induce birth defects. It is labeled as such because “studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus, and/or human or animal studies have shown fetal abnormalities; risks of the drug outweigh the potential benefits.”
It is well-established that prenatal exposure to androgens, such as testosterone, can cause genital defects in females. Androgens act as masculinizing hormones, guiding the formation of male genitalia and inhibiting the development of a vaginal opening in males. Consequently, medical practitioners are not displaying “cisnormativity and judgement” in their handling of “trans” patients regarding testosterone “therapy”; they are fulfilling their ethical duties of beneficence and non-maleficence.
Reality’s Last Stand
More to the point, why are you trying to have a baby in the first place, if you really, seriously believe you are a man? As one of the doctors interviewed in this demented Queer Theory paper concedes, If you couldn’t deal without testosterone, then you probably shouldn’t be pregnant.
