{"id":15707,"date":"2012-02-20T22:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15707"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T03:59:50","slug":"i-perceive-therefore-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-perceive-therefore-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"I perceive, therefore I am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a term used by psychologists to describe a person who is convinced his mind has a different gender to his body.<\/p>\n<p>To treat GID, the body is modified to fit the mental perception the person\u2019s gender.<\/p>\n<p>If this seems a little odd \u2013 or even preposterous \u2013 it is because it is. Why do psychologists assume that the disorder is in the body rather than the mind? If a person decides he is Napoleon, does his psychologist prescribe a series of operations to transform the patient\u2019s body into a passable likeness of Napoleon? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>The difference in the case of GID is that the treatment is grounded in ideology, not medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, even children are being sacrificed to the lunatic cult of gender-fluidity.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/story\/2012\/02\/20\/health-transgender-children.html?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.<\/p>\n<p>An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, &#8220;I a boy&#8221; and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a term used by psychologists to describe a person who is convinced his mind has a different gender to his body. To treat GID, the body is modified to fit the mental perception the person\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-perceive-therefore-i-am\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-15707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-confusion","tag-gid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}