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| Opinion - Global Warning | ||||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | ||||
| Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:00 | ||||
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Early and vivid memories of the misalignment
 Remembering Who We Are Early self-knowledge, universal across all class and social distinctions, forms an intrinsic indicator of the transsexual birth condition and appears to occur randomly in all human populations. It crosses national boundaries and religious training. Moreover, modern scientific assessments indicate that the birth condition has no connection with sexual orientation. A wide variety of adults born with a misalignment of their innate neurobiological properties and anatomical sex have early and vivid memories of self-awareness of their birth condition. The reports can mix very early and direct recollection ("I have always known I'm a ...") with memories of memories ("I remember that I recalled ..."). Arbitrary social constructions — such as class, race, and social status — have no bearing on the incidence rate, nor do other characteristics (such as intelligence or physical dimensions). Significant research effort in recent years deals with the means used by children to organize and report on their experiences, and measures to determine their veracity. Mounting evidence shows that research efforts using adult standards to assess the reports of children are in error. No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion. [1]
Feelings and experiences vary widely. Our individual understandings of the world around us – the color of the sky, the sound of hip-hop, the smell of lasagna, the taste of a top shelf marguerite, and the touch of a lover’s hand — are known as qualia. [2] The question is where and how these personal experiences fit into a purely physical
 theory of the mind.Current
neuroscience research suggests that memory is a set of encoded neural connections. The stronger the connections, the stronger the memory. Recent studies indicate that children’s memories of events that occurred long ago may be more accurate than their recollections of recent events. In real life if you see something done again and again,
you study it and you gradually pick up a pattern. [3]
A wide variety of adults with a history of Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) often recall early and vivid memories of the misalignment between their innate neurobiological properties and anatomical sex. The reports can mix very early and direct recollection ("I have always known I'm a ...") with memories of memories ("I remember that I recalled ...").
Early self-knowledge, universal across all class and social distinctions, forms an intrinsic indicator of those born with HBS, crossing national boundaries and religious training.
The collective memories of HBS men and women are often challenged, however, by the male transgender community, whose chief socio-political tenet is that we are all the same (HBS is merely the extremist form of transgenderism, the people so obsessed with their genitals that they have Sex Reassignment Surgery). Few, if any, within the transgender world believe they were born with the genitals of the wrong sex; fewer yet have memories of knowing something was wrong when they were very young children.
Because their desire to be accepted in is so strong and their need to believe that they are just like HBS men and women (except that they don’t want sex reassignment) so overwhelming, the transgender community’s gut reaction is to deny the childhood memories of people born HBS, to insist that such memories are fabrications and delusions and that those with HBS are mistaken.
No matter how many personal testimonies are provided by HBS men and women, the self-justifying transgender world insists that such memories are non-existent – for to do otherwise would force examination of the psycho-emotional underpinnings of the transgender social strata and threaten their carefully assembled house of cards.
The emotional contagion that is transgenderism runs rampant on university campuses and in liberal, feminist circles that champion identity politics and political correctness while ignoring the realities of science and medicine.
On line, transgenders exhibit male pack behavior, attacking in groups any person who questions the philosophy of transgenderism, who suggests that there is a critical difference between HBS men and women and those who are transgendered, [4] or who state that they knew they were HBS in early childhood.
The primary driving force behind this pack behavior is their fear that once HBS men and women are fully recognized by science as a specific medical condition with key, prescriptive characteristics, research might focus on the physical and psychological traits that result in transgenderism (what are the prescriptive distinctions between transgenders, cross-dressers, and transvestites?). The transgender emperor would rather have the wrong clothes on than no clothes at all.
Any successful group or movement started by women will find itself inevitably infiltrated by men who wish to assume positions of authority and dominate the members who are women. [5] One of the ways of the transgender community attempts to control the public dialogue is by dominating the conversation by the din of sheer numbers. There are a thousand, if not ten thousand fold or more, people who identify as transgendered for every man and woman born with HBS.
Moreover, transgendered people continue to identify as transgendered throughout their life. HBS men and women transition, have sex reassignment surgery, and become everyday run of the mill men and woman (albeit with a transsexual history). [6]
Post-op, men and women born with HBS disappear into the general population, making it difficult to accurately determine their actual numbers. Transgender men and women are always with us, asking for our acceptance and our approval.
A second way that the transgendered community controls the dialogue is by acting as if the transgendered community is in competition with men and women with HBS, as if all this was happening on football field where any gains by HBS men and women resulted in losses by the opposing transgender team.
There is purposeful disinformation and propaganda within the community that somehow our goal [7] of obtaining proper medical treatment and legal processes for those born with HBS means our objectives are detrimental to the transgendered, that we oppose cross-dressers, transvestites, and transgenders.
We do not.
Life is not a competition.
Everyone should be treated fairly and given equal treatment and rights under the law.
That does not mean that we will not note that the national transgender organizations, the ones who claim that we are one big family, do not address the specific needs of HBS men and women when they represent us before the media and before congress. [8] The entire focus is on transgenders, cross-dressing, multiple official IDs, and getting into the Lady’s Room without being hassled.
Nothing about having Sex Reassignment Surgery routinely covered by medical health plans, nothing about issuing a single interim ID while a man or woman with HBS is in transition, nothing about changing birth records post-op to reflect the new name and sex – just bathrooms and multiple IDs reflecting the transgender gender of the moment.
Male pack behavior rules. What is good for the transgendered is good for everyone. What is good for HBS men and women is needlessly distracting and muddles the transgender agenda by raising too many questions that they would prefer to avoid.
There is a saying, one hand washes the other. That is not being done, for whatever reason.
There is another saying: Chi vai a letto con i cani, si leva con le pulci. Nenti mi ratta a manu comu i me unga. [9]
1. David Hume
2. Philosophers often use the term ‘qualia’ (singular ‘quale’) to refer to the introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 3. Teller 4. HBS men and women are born with a conflict between their brain sex identity and their genital sex – sex reassignment surgery brings that dichotomy into agreement. Their gender remains what it was at birth (their brain sex identity), only their genital sex is changed. A transgender’s brain and genital sex agree at birth. People who are transgendered do not wish to change their genital sex, just their role in society (as a man or a woman) or the clothes they might wear (appropriate to their preferred gender role). LJT 5. Sharon Sinead Gaughan (private conversation) 6. Or, as my Kaiser Permanente medical records indicate, the patient is female with a male history (there are various physical reasons and concerns that make it necessary for doctors to be aware of someone’s medical past). 7. TS-Si is dedicated to the acceptance, medical treatment, & legal protection of individuals in the process of changing their anatomical sex, and supporting their transition into society. 8. Various private conversations with congressional and media officials. 9. He who lies down with dogs, wakes up with fleas. Nothing scratches my hand like my own nails.  Ms. Lisa Jain Thompson is a Co-Founder & Principal of TS-Si. She also serves as a Contributing Editor and columnist for the TS-Si website. She maintains another site, StarPoet.com, for her poetry and literary works.Ms. Thompson's signed articles contain her own opinions and do not necessarily convey an official position of TS-Si, its partners, or affiliates. Lisa welcomes your comments. Use the form below or email via her TS-Si Contact Page. We will not divulge any personal details or place you on a mailing list without your permission.
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