As I was reading
an opinion article that theorized about returning to a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for transgender troops, I began to wonder if that wouldn't be such a bad thing. You're no doubt wondering how someone like me-not only a relatively highly decorated military veteran, but also a staunch advocate for open transgender military service-could have such a blasphemous mindset.
The answer is simple:
not all elements of transgenderism are good and healthy. I'm very specifically talking about the nutty elements of transgenderism that insist on cutting off healthy body parts, claiming they're "confirming their genders" and that this is lifesaving. It's not. It merely enriches the people doing the cutting.
The
Los Angeles Times reported, for example, "For the last four years, Drs. Gil and Zol Kryger have averaged 100 'top surgeries' a year, each costing $6,000 to $9,000. 'Bottom surgery,' constructing genitalia, is comparatively rare and far more expensive, running $75,000 to $100,000." Even worse, sex-change surgery continues to lead more and more people down this hideous pathway. Here's
GQ:
Jennifer was set to have her procedure done in Thailand when, at the last minute, a Los Angeles-based surgeon offered her a discount if she would agree to be featured in a documentary on her surgery. Even so, she says, 'Paying for it took everything I had.' But a host of complications and nearly a dozen emergency surgeries had her in and out of the hospital for ten months, and the no-frills insurance policy she bought before her transition, like all policies, had its limits.
Media handlers who write about me often cast me as being the hero who broke the gender binary.
The part about me being the first to break the gender binary is true, I did that, and I did it for an important reason: to help stop the sterilization and mutilation of transgender children. They need realistic and healthier options.
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