Saturday, April 16, 2022

D.L. Gardner: Gender Transitioning is not Reasonable

What is reasonable? Is it reasonable to help children as young as five years old transition their gender based on how they feel about themselves? That’s a question that has lit up the virtual ‘talkisphere’ the past few weeks. 


Some school districts and states have been teaching gender differences to very young elementary children. Florida recently passed a law prohibiting such sex education in grades K-3. 


Last week, New Jersey rolled out its new “gender identity” curricula for first and second grade students this fall. One lesson plan for second graders teaches children to identify at least four body parts from female and male reproductive organs. A prospective lesson plan for first graders asks students what gender they “feel” they are, and teaches they might be a little bit of both genders.


Permanently transitioning a person’s gender for life is certainly a big deal. Giving a parent or a caretaker authority to transition a prepubescent child’s gender for life is an even bigger deal. How does such a change affect a person? We have little if any definitive answers to how such a change may affect a person over a lifetime. Nevertheless many activists, pundits, and politicians boldly agree gender change promotes good and positive mental health “for the children.” 


Gender transitioning at any age has leapfrogged well beyond any diagnosis of mental disorders. Education about gender transitioning is now in the hands of governing authorities from local school boards to state legislatures to federal bureaucracies, and will likely be decided by judges who are ill-equipped to rule on matters of biology. Elections have consequences. 


Closer to home, activists have infiltrated our schools teaching children about gender differences and “feelings” that sometimes contradict what parents say. Woke folks contend that teachers are experts in these matters and should have the freedom and authority to teach children what they need to know in times of misinformation particularly about values and … (shudder) morals. Who knows best what children need to learn? Well educated and degreed professional teachers, or parents who struggle with new math?


Niche educational companies help teachers across the board by supplying cartoons developed by curriculum specialists for K-3 classrooms to raise and answer interesting questions about our bodies and feelings. Search the Internet for companies like AMAZE.org to see actual videos teaching children about sex. 


Of course news media label parents’ concerns over exposing K-3 children to explicit sexual content as far rightwing conspiracies spun by white supremacist racists hellbent on returning America to the 1950s. They say parents are the problem, and that so called traditional American values are nothing more than wishful thinking about how things used to be.


The Biden administration and their woke partners in Congress, the federal bureaucracy, academia, and the media have sailed far beyond the extreme LEFT, broadcasting their idyllic views of life in America as they believe it should be, beginning with freedom to become anything that makes us feel good. 


Make no mistake, gender transitioning is a dangerous biological experiment based on a patient’s feelings and not on biological science. Its very premise is a lie. Neither XX nor XY chromosomes can be changed via surgery or hormone treatments. Gender transitioning is nothing less than physical abuse dressed up in woke ideology. Gender transitioning is not reasonable. 



Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

What we are talking about is simply gender confusion. It's a mental problem. Like any mental problem, the victim can either accept it as a problem and deal with it or seek the acceptance of others, as if it's "normal". Little children have no real conception of sex and little understanding of gender so they are easily confused when influenced by "activists" who seek to normalize their condition by increasing their numbers. The children are the vulnerable target of these confused people and they will vastly increase their numbers if allowed to indoctrinate school children before puberty. It's a battle a sane society can't afford to lose.

Anonymous said...

DL, you really need a course in human biology.

I'm sorry to shock you, but not all babies can be gender identified at birth.
Some can't be until puberty.

There are children born with male and female genitalia.

There are girls whose ovaries never work.
There is something called hormones that affect our sexuality.

You just can't let the physician and parent make decisions on behalf of their children , can you? You know more than God since He created us.
Sorry, DL but I wouldn't consider you competent or responsible enough to even babysit my , fortunately, very healthy ,sexuality unambiguous children. I wouldn't want you in my family at all!

Anonymous said...

Lies lies lies you damn transphobic racist asshat!!!! GD you KF for posting this unscientific hateful garbage. Jesus loves all including those vulnerable trans kids that need all the love and support we can provide.

Anonymous said...

Very predictable for Gardner.

Anonymous said...

If children can consent to changing their sex, then they can consent to having sex. Let’s be honest. That’s really what this is all about. These degenerates can never be satisfied.

Krusatyr said...

Leftists will mutilate the psyches, and sometimes the bodies, of those in their control to make them or keep them dependent. Blue states are gulags for experimenting on school children by their state sponsored Groomers. Marxists divide society into five parts: Dictator, Regime Bureaucrats, Loyal Elitists (including media elites and indoctrinators), Citizen Spies and Slaves.

Grooming slave children to be warped, dependent perverts is but one inclination of the twisted, evil left.

Anonymous said...

Terrifying! The perverse prey on the innocents. God save us.

Anonymous said...

1:57 the numbers you site are stunningly small yet these 'transgendered" people claim these outliers apply to them.

2:03 you claim people who say women can't have Y chromosomes are unscientific? These "transgendered" people are mentally ill. It is not hate to confront a denial of reality.

Anonymous said...

Amen! This guy gets it

Anonymous said...

Where does it end? The human mind can conceive damn near anything so gender identity or sexual preference can extend as far as the imagination can go. But should society accept it all? Where do we stop? Is it simply a matter of individual freedom or societal values. Where do we stop?

Anonymous said...

Furthermore, men can menstruate, get pregnant and give birth, right? Sick, sick as hell!

Anonymous said...

I can still remember the good old days when teachers really taught what a child needed to know. They left the rest of the teaching to the child's parents. When and why did that change? I know a lot of teachers that I wouldn't want around my children. Much less teaching them something that some of them haven't come to terms with themselves.

Kingfish said...

I wasn't aware the Hinds County School District was run by Republicans.

Anonymous said...

Gardner of course is a Far Right extremist on every issue, but I will say that as a progressive Democrat, this trans/gender ambiguous issue, when it comes to children, is way, way out of hand. I am strongly against “teaching” a young boy that he may want to really be a girl or vice-versa. A child certainly is not capable of deciding, for example, if she/he should medically transition to the opposite sex, and the medical profession has no business facilitating the transition of a young child.

Now, if an adult man is convinced that he wants to be a woman, then by all means have at it, and the anti-discrimination laws should apply to this person.

This trans craz with children is being caused by social media, and it can cause lasting harm to kids.

Anonymous said...

@5:40 agrees with Gardner but goes ahead and shoots the messenger anyway.

Anonymous said...


a man can never become a woman, and a woman can never become a man. anyone that thinks the contrary is a danger to society.

a man can pretend to be a woman by cutting off his twig and berries, getting breast implants, and wearing make-up, lingerie and dresses, but he will never be a woman. caitlyn jenner will never be a woman, no matter how many surgeries and hormones he takes. rachel levine will never be a woman either. lia thomas will never be a woman no matter how tight his one piece swimsuit is.

a woman can pretend to be a man by getting a double mastectomy and a tube of meat sewn on between her legs, but she will never be a man. elliot page will never be a man, no matter how hard she tries.

a person cannot change their gender. a person cannot change their sex. a person can only pretend to be the other. you want to pretend, i don't care. but don't tell me i have to acknowledge or participate in your fantasy, your mental delusion. i will use pronouns that correlate to your biology, and i will call you by your legal name. if that offends you, i don't care. your expectation that i acknowledge or participate in your mental illness offends me. your attempts at teaching this to children offends me.

and don't tell me children that don't understand sex are capable of deciding if they want to be, and can change their sex. anybody that wants to discuss sex, sexuality, gender fluidity, gender confusion or anything else sexual related to a child that is not theirs, should be locked away. permanently, and i say that instead of what i really think cause KF wouldn't approve.

if a coworker discussed with you, the things some teachers are discussing with children, you could report them to HR, and sue everybody for sexual harassment. why are the degenerates on the left so hellbent on teaching this to children?

Anonymous said...

This is exactly why the church and I are on different paths… and, yes, I am clergy…..

Anonymous said...

@5:40 An adult man who is convinced that he wants to be a woman does not, will not, make him a woman no matter how much he wants to be a woman, but he wants the rest of us to say he is a woman. That's the problem. I will not say a dog is a cat, a bird is a fish, or a man is a woman. Am I being unreasonable?

Anonymous said...

All part of the liberal agenda to ruin everything. Everything they touch goes to complete sh!t from education to sports. There are only TWO genders and that’s a scientific fact, no wokeness or bible thumping needing, anything else is a mental problem, some cultures, and yes there are people born with extra parts (usually fixed at birth)or can’t reproduce but there are only TWO genders. A child wants to be a doctor, a pilot, or astronaut but by the time they’re 16-17 that’s all changed because of maturity. Next thing you know the liberal idiots will want 5 year olds voting for them instead of raising the age voting to 30. Have you seen any of the clips of these teachers/freaks crying about how parents shouldn’t have a say, they look like the panhandling bums in downtown Seattle demanding you give them money.

I Identify As A 58 Olds Hood Ornament said...

Can't get past the fact that so many (of you) use the words gender and sex interchangeably.

There are two sexes*. Since man made up the word gender, there is an infinite number of those. Soon they will add car hood, footlocker and shoelace.

*To deal with the small number who can't be categorized early, slide them into a TBD category, like a ball game in a tournament.

Anonymous said...

"In the days of Noah..."

Anonymous said...

Do y’all really think these culture war issues are going to help you?

It’s for reasons completely divorced from these culture wars that Republicans are expected to have a good midterm. So I’m not saying you guys are going to lose your chances at controlling Congress come next year. However, the foaming-at-the-mouth look on you guys isn’t attractive to purple voters, and at least some of them will be turned off by it. Y’all would be better off ditching the culture wars and focusing on the economy.

Anonymous said...

This above says it perfectly..." Little children have no real conception of sex and little understanding of gender so they are easily confused when influenced by "activists" who seek to normalize their condition by increasing their numbers."

Anonymous said...

Y’all don’t listen, wasting time reading Comrade Gardner again !

Anonymous said...

Saw on the news the other day where a couple of women prisoners got pregnant. Seems they put a man who wanted to be a woman in a women's prison. I think he may have changed his mind.

Anonymous said...

Brilliant reply.

@3:56 AM

Anonymous said...

@6:58 p.m. "Why are the degenerates on the left so hellbent on teaching this to children?" Because children are the key to the future and they know it. They cannot win us old folks and they know that. The children, they are the future, not you and me. Win the minds of the children and you win the war.
Easily.

Anonymous said...

“Can't get past the fact that so many (of you) use the words gender and sex interchangeably.”
The idea of sex and gender not being interchangeable in humans did not come about until the late 20th century as a matter not of science, but ideology and politics. Until then, they were interchangeable. Male and female gender are not interchangeable. That is a bogus idea posited by leftist and feminist ideologies. Yes, there are people who suffer from gender dysphoria. That does not change the fundamental fact that gender is biologically determined. That is why gender dysphoria was recognized as a disorder in the first place.

Anonymous said...

So much angst about what other people do. quit caring so much about what someone else wants to do. I have never, in the 50 year history of my life, ever had anyone harm me or anyone I love because they wanted to become another gender. Is it weird? yeah, kinda. Hell, I like to do stuff other people probably think are weird. If they want to be something else, none of it affects me. I'm just supposed to love em because they're my neighbor. So, that's what I'm going to do, and I'm gonna let them be them.

Anonymous said...

@6:58 You pretty much said it all. Unfortunately morally bankrupt people in America are determined to destroy the country from within!

Anonymous said...

April 16, 2022 at 7:27 PM: " is exactly why the church and I are on different paths… and, yes, I am clergy….."

Did you mean to make definitive statement? I think you left everyone hanging.

Anonymous said...

Let them be them, but not with our children!

Anonymous said...

You don't mess with Mother Nature. Be what you want but except what you are.

Anonymous said...

The story of Noah was mythical, a parable, but with a great purpose.

Meanwhile, we live in a world where at least one culture forcefully holds down female children and, without benefit of anesthesia, using sharp instruments, removes the child's clitoris. It doesn't change the fact that she's a girl - it just forever reminds her of her purpose here on earth, which is to please man, not herself.

How far is our 'culture' removed from that?

Anonymous said...

If you give your child puberty blockers, you should be put in jail for child abuse. There is no such thing as a "trans child." Why does the left continuously want to sexualize young children in kindergarten or need validity from them on their own gender issues?



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