{"id":40794,"date":"2017-05-10T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40794"},"modified":"2017-05-10T01:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T04:35:51","slug":"transgenders-privately-admit-but-publicly-deny-unresolved-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/transgenders-privately-admit-but-publicly-deny-unresolved-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgenders Privately Admit, but Publicly Deny, Unresolved Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Neira &#8212; who served in the US Navy as Paul Neira &#8212; has helped\u00a0stand up Johns Hopkins&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/center_transgender_health\/\">Center for Transgender Health<\/a> this Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Most articles on the new Center have said little of substance, but one report quoted Neira making a potentially unintentional but <a href=\"https:\/\/500pens.org\/2017\/04\/29\/the-woman-behind-the-center-for-transgender-health-is-a-fighter\/\">fascinating admission<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under [his] leadership, the Center for Transgender Health will serve transgender patients, teach health professionals and research <strong>health concerns facing the transgender community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>this last point has some urgency<\/strong>. Neira notes that <strong>there is still a lot unknown for transgender patients<\/strong> related to gender-affirming care as well as to general health. \u201cYou know \u2014 <strong>what is the health effect of testosterone dosage<\/strong>? What is the most effective dose? There\u2019s all kinds of pieces of information that we want to know&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neira, and by extension Johns Hopkins, is essentially admitting society is <!--more-->willfully &#8212; even gladly &#8212; giving women long-term unnatural hormones <em>without knowing the health effects<\/em> of that medical <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40816\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/neira-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/neira-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/neira.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>&#8220;treatment&#8221;. No doubt the same applies for a biological male taking female hormones in quantities his body does not naturally produce, as with Neira himself.<\/p>\n<p>And, yet, activists have made the case that transgenders can serve in the US military with no negative impact to the military mission.<\/p>\n<p>How can anyone say that with integrity\u00a0if\u00a0current\u00a0medical knowledge can&#8217;t\u00a0articulate the health effects of long term high dosage of cross-gender hormones?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that a fairly fundamental question to the issue?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t quite sound logical, does it?<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;revelation&#8221; has shades of the repeal of DADT in it. Despite all the reassurances that repeal had no negative effect on the military, every now and then a story has slipped through about how <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2014\/07\/08\/lgbt-airman-describes-negative-impact-to-morale\/\">units and the military mission have been negatively impacted<\/a> by a homosexual &#8220;coming out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is most important? Advocacy of social causes, or defense of the nation? Troops&#8217; religious beliefs, or their sexual activity?<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t things much simpler when the State at least <em>tacitly<\/em> supports a moral order?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Neira &#8212; who served in the US Navy as Paul Neira &#8212; has helped\u00a0stand up Johns Hopkins&#8217; Center for Transgender Health this Spring. Most articles on the new Center have said little of substance, but one report quoted Neira making a potentially unintentional but fascinating admission: Under [his] leadership, the Center for Transgender Health will serve transgender patients, teach [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[219,442,3862,2,36,4930,17,10,171,1278],"class_list":["post-40794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-johns-hopkins","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-paula-neira","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}