"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men." ~ H.L. Mencken
Transgender children: what’s behind the spike in numbers?
Oliver Geoghegan sips hot chocolate as he strives to explain the confounding question of his gender.
“I’m not 100 per cent a boy. I’m not 100 per cent a girl and I’m not 50-50,” the 10-year-old says, enjoying the slipperiness of his answer. He draws an imaginary line down the middle of the table where we sit on the deck of his Canberra home. “If there are girls here,” he gestures to the left hand side, “and boys there,” he sweeps across to the right, “then I’d be here.” He stops just short of the far edge, deep inside the realm of masculinity. “I would count myself 85 per cent a boy and the other,” he pauses to calculate, “15 per cent is more like, different, not a girl, just different.”
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This "Australian" outfit is an example of the dead and dying mainstream "press" -- in order to comment one must first subscribe -- at a cost calculated in federal reserve notes. So, the "comment" section is primarily pablum.
This article is a classic example of Thomas Pynchon's illustrious "...if you can keep 'em asking the wrong questions you'll never need concern yourself about answers..." Social engineering in spades (IMHO -- which ain't that humble). Sam