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The Annoyed Man wrote:

ScottDLS wrote:Since I currently identify as male...I have less of a hangup with Target Corp.'s new LGBTQIA friendly bathroom policy. However, I am encouraging my life partner (who currently identifies as female) to get her LTC, should she need to use the restroom at Target or escort any of our offspring (who birth gender indicated as female). I wonder how other womyn members of of the forum are considering handling necessary biological activities while shopping at Target?

We just stopped doing business with Target. There are alternatives.

My personal philosophy is this: if someone has completed gender reassignment surgery, then I guess I don't have a problem with them using the restroom appropriate to their gender assignment. But this whole self-identification business is bovine manure.

This is the opinion of Paul McHugh, MD, the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the author of The Mind Has Mountains: "Reflections on Society and Psychiatry".
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

What is needed now is public clamor for coherent science—biological and therapeutic science—examining the real effects of these efforts to “support” transgendering. Although much is made of a rare “intersex” individual, no evidence supports the claim that people such as Bruce Jenner have a biological source for their transgender assumptions. Plenty of evidence demonstrates that with him and most others, transgendering is a psychological rather than a biological matter.

In fact, gender dysphoria—the official psychiatric term for feeling oneself to be of the opposite sex—belongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder. Its treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery and hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction. The treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it. With youngsters, this is best done in family therapy.

This article is the single most coherent thing I've ever read on the topic - and by the way, it absolutely confirms everything I've said about it all along. I'll take the scientific opinion of an MD in psychiatry who uses science instead of feelings to underpin his conclusions all day long before I'll accept the intellectually barren drivel that permeates the rest of the national discussion.

Thank you for posting this, TAM. It echoes quite well my non-scientifically-substantiated feelings on the subject. However, McHugh has the scientific chops to back them up. I love the comparison to anorexia. I'm going to remember that one.

To address the issue of shopping at Target in light of this: I will make my wife aware of this policy, and I may stand outside the restroom should she need to use the facility while I am with her. However, I just don't see this being a big issue. If it proves to be, I will reconsider my position. I do not feel led to take my business to Walmart over this decision. Both Target and Walmart are liberal-leaning giant corporations. Neither genuinely care about you or your feelings. Both simply want your money and all decisions they make are motivated by this.

Going forward, I will shop at the store where the employees are friendly, the quality of goods is on average higher, they don't feel the need to keep anything smaller than a toaster and worth more than $10 locked up, and where I don't have to listen to commercials in a foreign language while I shop. I'll let y'all figure out which one that is.