Today's Battle : against the -Ism's

This time at US Catholic Online. Not the same as Catholic Exchange - The last time I mentioned this mob, that one was telling Trans people they should have allowed themselves to die rather than transition and disobey God.

This one's more of the same though - Exchanging the Truth of God for a Lie: Transgender Activists, Cultural Revolution.

"Enter the Australian Human Rights Commission with some exciting new developments. In an extraordinary document entitled "Protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity", the AHRC has come up with a further list of "genders" which they require us to recognize, and on whose behalf they want our federal government to pass anti-discrimination legislation.

TLDR version : they're agin it.

Some of the comments...

We hear of arguments for legalizing many of the sexual aberrations like,homosexuality,gay marriage, animal sexual companionship. incest etc. On account of their ignorance and their faith in epicurianism, they think that sexual permissiveness will solve all problems and the life will be pleasant....

"Transgender is a mental disorder and anyone who has it needs counseling". Amen, Amen, AND Amen.....

O Babylon, thou art mighty in thy works, and wicked in thy Purpose! When did Sin so vile that even the death of Jesus Christ Himself cannot absolve it come into being?....

1. Transgender is a mental disorder, and the people who have it need counselling. Usually it's a rejection of same-sex peers, and what they really need is friends, not genital mutilation. 2. If you want to be accomodated (change the letter on your driver's license), that is one thing. But this should not be funded. Stop stealing taxpayer money to support causes!....

...I do think you're feeling the angst out there because there seems to be no end in site to the demands of the LGBT lobby. In our state, achieving same sex marriage did not satisfy those in the LGBT community. The issue here is simple. Does the majority of society have to be forced to embrace the homosexual/transexual agenda as a good thing via the passage of new laws?...

This article addresses the political process by which the Homosexual movement is using to pervert America to accept their sick derranged life style. The courts have been packed radical hardcore Leftist Activists who are hell bent on bringing this country down. One certain way to destroy a society is by use use of psychological warfare. This is why the Church has forfeited "The Game" to our enemies under the excuse of Freedom of Speech. These sick animals have no place in our society or our planet....

We are doomed! Get ready to be forced back into the catacombs folks....

*SIGH* Hysteria... misunderstanding.. ignorance.. "stop stealing money from taxpayers!!" (as if US taxpayers had anything to do with Australian Human Rights)..It's All a Communist Plot.. WE ARE DOOMED!!... all rife with misspellings, and of course the naked hatred of "These sick animals have no place in our society or our planet". How... Christian of them. They've missed the point.

But there's some worthwhile comments too. Like this one, that while it completely misunderstands the situation, was worth answering.

Sam March 26th, 2011 4:54 am

@Adam and Tangelic: The very idea that you have a "brain sex" which is distinct from your "body sex" is not science. It is a modern descendent of Cartesian dualism, the mistaken philosophical view that the real "you" is your mind/brain while your body is not essential to your personal identity. Only if we assume this nonsensical division between self and body at the outset can the "brain sex"/"body sex" distinction even be rendered intelligible....
This is nonsense- it is the mind that needs to correctly represent the body, not the body that needs to be mutilated in order to accommodate the mind's dysfunctioning. This is a philosophical and theological error from the 17th century, and the fact that a large number of people in the therapy and psychiatry industry take this error for granted does not make it "science".

That one was worth answering - so I did.

Sam - you completely misunderstand the meaning of "Brain Sex". The brain is a sexually dimorphic organ. Men's brains are anatomically different from women's brains. You can tell a male brain from a female one at autopsy, just as you can tell a male pelvis from a female pelvis. The less subtle differences are visible on CAT and PET scans. And Transsexual people have anatomically cross-sexed brains, a physical difference. Parts of their body are female, parts male, just as is the case with other Intersex conditions. This is not a "psychological" or "spiritual" difference, it's an objective, physical one, just like the more obvious difference in genitalia. // Like genitalia, the brain's anatomy is set in the womb. But the two areas of physical development may differ, as the timing of development differs...

Followed by the usual references to medical and biological facts. Cartesian Dualism was about the separation of mind and body, not the separation of body and brain. The brain's part of the body, and trans people have some parts of the body masculinised, other parts feminised, to state it in a nutshell.

No, it's not about Epicurianism, Cartesian Dualism, Communism, or any other -ism.