In seeking to overturn recent state laws opposing the sterilization of children, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health make false claims in court about the effectiveness of gender-transition drugs and surgeries.
These organizations argue that “the only effective treatment for individuals at risk of or suffering from gender dysphoria is to provide” sterilizing interventions.
Readers of this blog know differently. A synopsis of their legal strategy to overturn Arkansas’s SAFE Act is offered in this article by Christopher Mills.
The other day I was running late for an outdoor bluegrass concert. So I hurriedly packed up the items I would need: camp chair; back pack with additional clothing (gets cool when the sun goes down); and literally launched myself into the drivers seat of my truck. Unfortunately on the way to the seat my left knee met with some resistance; the unforgiving rotating light switch.
Ayyyeeee!
Well, the leg started to bleed. And since the abrasive cut was not low enough to avoid my knee-high shorts, I had to take the time to wipe and bandage this time-waster; or it would stain my clothing.
I knew I could carry on unconcerned if I wanted to. Why? Simply put; blood coagulation, part of the process known as the blood-clotting cascade. Eventually the flow would stop. I wouldn’t bleed out. “Soldiering on” would work okay. Blood stained shorts be damned. I was on a mission towards Bluegrass Heaven.
But since the shorts were new, and not yet ready for damnation, Bluegrass Heaven would have to wait. I took the time to bandage up.
Why am I telling you this bit of personal trivia? Because it gives us one more example of the Intelligent Design behind God’s Good Creation. “Huh?” Let me explain.
Blood clotting is the body’s emergency response system; a system I’m convinced was wonderfully designed.
There are some really bright scientists who agree.
Imagine a man having a stroke. He’s rushed to the hospital, where a team of medical professionals springs into action. This is much like what happens when you cut yourself. Your body has its own emergency response system – the blood clotting process.
When you get a cut, your body sends out a distress signal, like a 9-1-1 call. This summons tiny particles in your blood, called platelets, to the site of the injury. These platelets transform and start to form a plug, slowing down the bleeding. Then something called coagulation takes place. But now things get a little technical here. So let me bring in the expert.
Biochemist Michael Behe explains it better than I could in the latest Secrets of the Cellepisode; an explanation that includes hisirreducible complexity argument for Intelligent Design.
Behe concludes the blood clotting process is too complex and interdependent to have developed through Darwinian evolution. It’s like a finely tuned machine, where every part is necessary for it to function properly. (That’s the irreducible complexity of it.) This suggests that the system was designed with a purpose, rather than being the result of incremental & random evolutionary processes.
Dozens of teachers from the Midwest met online to discuss how to help trans students change gender at school without their parents knowing. They talked about new laws on gender and identity and how to be ‘subversive’ and ‘hide’ a student’s new name and gender from their parents.
The conspiracy occurred at a workshop funded by the federal government.
Kimberly Martin, a Michigan educator, said they’re “working with our record-keeping system so that certain screens can’t be seen by the parents.” Jennifer Haglund of Iowa said her “code of ethics” trumps laws.
These growing tensions between parents and schools over plummeting test scores, covid closures, and keeping secrets from mom and dad about gender ‘transition’ will further fuel the school choice movement in America.
