http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/05/13/obama_s_transgender_obsessionObama's Transgender Obsession
May 13, 2016
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RUSH: Could somebody explain to me why transgender people have become so important to Barack Hussein O? I'm serious. From these edicts that transgender bathrooms now have to be built in public schools... How does it look now?
Remember when a lot of people took their kids out of schools to start teaching them at home, and remember how they were called a bunch of fruitcakes and extremists and paranoids and all kinds of names? How do they look to you now? They look somewhat prescient, do they not? I mean, you look at what's going on the American public school system. But what is it with this transgender push? I know that most of the story is that the gay movement has realized its agenda, so they've gotta they've gotta transfer that energy somewhere and transgenders is the next.
I mean, I warned you of that way back in April of last year, and I'm gonna remind you of that warning in moments. But beyond all that, what is this? I mean, these are really, really extreme actions. It's the equivalent of asking or suggesting that men should have visitation rights to girls' bathrooms. I mean, to go all-out here and make this Title IX, trying to claim it's Title IX in one instance and then Title VII of the central Civil Rights Act in another, when it's not even mentioned? In the Civil Rights Act and all the Title IX legislation, there's not a single reference to transgendered people, less than one half of one percent of the population.
So what's going on?
Is all this being used as a smokescreen to distract from us other things the Regime is doing? And do not doubt that one. Do not doubt this is designed to get all the social issues people all ratcheted up and loaded for bear and energetic, to start writing pieces and going on TV to talk about it, while the Regime is over here unobserved doing whatever it is that's really on their mind. So is this just a distraction? Why impose this on schoolchildren? Now, look, I can hear some of you screaming: "Rush, you know the answer to this. You're the one that that's told us.
"This Obama trying to transform the country. This is payback. This is cultural overthrow." Yeah, I know it's all that. But why? And who put Obama in charge of sexual education, and why this issue? Is it about continuing to get gay money for the Democrat convention and the election? Is this about fundraising? 'Cause there's not much more to do on the gay agenda. They got gay marriage, and we're close to putting you in jail if you won't bake a cake for a gay wedding. We've got pretty much everything, but you have to keep the group happy.
I mean, the militant leftist gays, you need their money. Is that what this is? I mean, this, obviously, is important to Obama for some reason. It affects every public school in the country, and as you sit around... You know, I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand. But I still want to throw this out because this is way, way over the top. This... I mean, this is... You want to talk about Trump or anybody on the right wing being extreme? What the hell is this? This is so far out of the mainstream that...
Obviously, they're trying to bring it in and make it the mainstream. This is bizarre. Don't tell me, for example, that somebody like Trump is not presidential when this kind of stuff is going on. Obama is presidential as defined by this kind of stuff? Ordering open bathrooms in schools and demanding that a new bathroom is a little bit different than what's going on in the states of North Carolina, for example. They are actually -- in the schools -- demanding that the districts build a third bathroom: One for boys, one for girls, and the other for whatever you think you are today, I guess.
Is this an effort on the part of the left to encourage people who might be confused about their sexuality to remain confused because there's some sort of political benefit? You're confused about your sexuality and government's got all the answers; is that what this is? Why isn't this offensive? We hear Trump says this -- or any other Republican, take your pick -- and they say, "It's offensive! That's over the top." Why isn't this? I mean, this is so far out of the mainstream, and yet there aren't a lot of people that want to buck this.
I had a story. I've actually done it twice. I had it in the Stack on Wednesday. Let me get to it. Let me see if I saved it. I did; I'm sure. Here it is. Is it second in the...? Yeah, I mentioned this. This goes back to June of 2015, almost a year ago. It's a Cybercast News Service story. "Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is 'Mental Disorder;' Sex Change 'Biologically Impossible.'" You remember when I did this story originally? It's about a doctor, Paul McHugh, and I said, "This guy has no idea what he's in for now," and nothing's happening to him.
"Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a 'mental disorder' that merits treatment, that sex change is 'biologically impossible,' and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder. Dr. McHugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his remarks in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal," which is where this all originally ran.
Cybercast News Service just saw it and decided to do a piece on it. It was an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal last year/last summer, and in the op-ed Dr. McHugh "explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a 'disorder of "assumption"...'" That's in quotes. It's a medical term, his term. It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' -- the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.
"[Dr. McHugh] also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt University and London's Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% 'spontaneously lost those feelings.'" A-ha. We may be on to something here. Dr. McHugh and his boys have studied all this, and young kids, 70 to 80% of them, eventually grow out of this confusion. Maybe that's what they don't want to happen is for kids to outgrow it.
I think whatever is going on here, folks, one part of it has to be that this is a made-to-order issue for the left and for Democrat Party to be able to point to Republicans -- once again -- as intolerant and insensitive and unfeeling because these are human beings and they can't help who they think they are. They can't help who they love. They should not be punished for it, and it's a built in... They might say it's a built-in opportunity to once again trash Republicans and conservatives. But whatever, it's over the top, and I'm just asking:
What the heck?
Why is this so important to Obama?
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