Much Ado About Nothing

It was with some degree of amusement that I watched "Cristan" Williams' hissy fits about Dr. Keith Ablow's comments about Chaz Bono's appearance on "Dancing With the Stars."  Now, let me start by saying I don't particularly agree with Ablow.  I did find it interesting that he seems to concede that he might well fail in his attempts to "cure" Chaz, and that if it came to it, he would support Chaz in seeking surgery.


That, of course, is a rather extreme version of how therapists should approach the treatment of transsexuals.  They certainly should not rubber stamp requests for SRS.  When they do, you end up with a very serious possibility of someone making a tragic error.  I have seen it happen.  SRS is not something to be rushed into,


But there is a bigger issue here.  Mr. Williams is infuriated that Dr. Ablow would dare disagree with transgender dogma.  The result has been an almost comedic attempt to destroy Ablow's career.  Now, as I said, I don't particularly agree with Ablow, and even less so with Paul McHugh, who Ablow has apparently quoted in support of his positions.


Ablow has expressed some opinions I find a bit amusing, like suggesting that parents should not allow their children to watch "Dancing With the Stars" because it might cause them to decide they are "transgender."  And he has made some nasty comments where he conflates transsexualism with transgender (that is probably what I would find most disturbing), but to suggest, as Mr. Williams does, that Ablow has violated medical ethics is, well, laughable.


Ablow is entitled to his views.  He is not the only doctor to disagree with surgical treatment for transsexuals.  So what?  Does Mr. Williams really imagine that someone might mistakenly choose Ablow as their therapist in pursuit of surgery?  Ironically, if that person was a true transsexual, Ablow has indicated that he would ultimately support them in pursuing SRS.  That is better than many therapists, who firmly oppose anyone ever having surgery.


The problem here is simple.  Some, especially those who made a poor choice, are so insecure that even the most minor of challenge to "transgender dogma" sends them into fits.  Ablow is one opinion among many.  Those inclined to think transsexuals in error will continue to do so.  Those who understand the needs of true transsexuals will not be persuaded by his rants.  And those like Mr. Williams, who feel the need to demand ideological purity with continue to have hissy fits about any disagreement.  And they will continue to engage in behavior that will make themselves look foolish, like filing silly ethics complaints in desperate attempts to be noticed and feel important.

Comparing Apples and.....Well, People

"Autumn" Sandeen is complaining that we don't have an acceptable word that covers everyone that he wants to be covered by transgender.  Apparently, he is now throwing in the towel on forcing everyone under the transgender umbrella and is hoping to coin a new term.


Unfortunately, Mr. Sandeen misses the bigger picture.  We do not need such a term.  There is nothing that connects these diverse groups.  Crossdressers are not the same as drag queens, who have nothing common with transsexuals, who are completely unrelated to gender queers....etc.  The only ones who really want such a term are those like Mr. Sandeen who have some bizarre need to identify as something they clearly are not.


Mr. Sandeen has a desperate need to identify as a transsexual even though he clearly has no desire to actually change his sex, seeking instead to perpetuate a bizarre fantasy of being a woman with a penis...well, more specifically, "a legal female with a penis."  This is absurd.  But it is Mr. Sandeen's goal.


No, we don't need a new term.  The old one has proven to be a failure.  Mr. Sandeen should take a lesson from that, but I don't see that happening.

In This Case, 'F' Is For Fraud

Well, "Autumn" Sandeen, the freshly minted male eunuch is again bragging about how he is defrauding everyone he can in a post entitled F Is For Female:Part One Of Many.  Now, an interesting thought occurs to me.  If, perhaps even when, Mr. Sandeen gets caught in his little lies, and someone decides to prosecute him for fraud (a lot of what he is doing requires basically swearing that something is true until penalty of perjury) does he realize that no amount of lying about the nature of his surgery is going to cause him to be placed anywhere except in a men's jail or prison.  Likewise, if he gets arrested in another protest, like the one he loves to brag about, he will not be viewed as a female, no matter what his birth certificate claims.  They will take one look at his penis, and pop him over to the male side.  I can almost see him being dragged into a male cell, all the while crying out that he is really a female, while waving his birth certificate for all to see.

No, in Mr. Sandeen's case, 'F' is for fraud, fake, fibber, but most definitely not female.

No, The Correct Pronoun Is Still "He."

"Autumn" Sandeen posted again about his castration.  At least he seems to have stopped referring to his becoming a male eunuch as being "genital reconstruction surgery."  He is now calling it "gender affirmation surgery," which is, in his case, an accurate term.  The problem is, the gender he is affirmed as having by this surgery, is, contrary to his delusional/dishonest claim, male.  Simply put, he has proven he is a man,


He made it clear in his past article that he was unwilling to part with his penis.  At that point, he was claiming he was going to have "genital reconstruction surgery," but after numerous people pointed out that nothing was being reconstructed, he seems to have abandoned that false claim.  Now, it is true that some transsexuals have an orchidectomy in advance of full SRS.  They do this to reduce the amount of hormones they take.  Mr. Sandeen has made it clear that this is the only surgery he plans to have.


Worse, he has made it clear that the reason he had this surgery is so he can perpetuate a fraud against the State of California in an attempt to change his birth certificate.  Hopefully, someone will raise objections to this, and he will be blocked, and perhaps even prosecuted for perjury.  For those who are interested the calendar for the San Diego court which will likely be hearing this case can be found here.  Providing copies of Mr. Sandeen's blog posts to the court should prove interesting.


In his latest, and according to him, last post on the subject he makes the statement:

Quite a number of transsexual women believe vaginoplasties are a requirement to fully transition from man to woman. I believe instead that I was female before my orchiectomy, female afterwards, and female still should I ever have a vaginoplasty. Genital surgery is used by many transsexuals to affirm gender, but it doesn’t create male or female gender in the first place.

No, all transsexual women believe vaginoplasties are a requirement to fully transition from man to woman.  Women do not have penises.  That is common sense for the vast majority of the human race.  But not for the delusional extremists of the transgender movement.  And no, it is clear that Mr. Sandeen has never been female in any sense, and will never be female since one cannot change one's gender by changing one's mind. 


Mr. Sandeen served successfully, as a male, in the Navy for twenty years.  No transsexual would be able to accomplish this.  It is bad enough when someone has had a long, successful career as a male, with no significant problems, and then claims to be a transsexual.  It is completely laughable when that career was in the military.  Yes, women serve in the military, but they serve in a different environment than men.  The culture is significantly different.


So, I, and I am sure many others, have to disagree when Mr. Sandeen says:

So when y’all refer to me, the correct pronoun is she — I didn’t have that gender affirmation surgery for nothing, y’know?

 No, the correct pronoun remains "he."  And hopefully, his fraud will be exposed in court, it will be shown that he has affirmed his gender as male.