It's aggravating enough when they claim the scientific position is behind a theory of the origins of humanity that is just as non-disprovable (and thus as unscientific) as creationism. Or when they use the term "science" as a mike-dropping trump card, as if most of scientific history is scientists being proven wrong about what they had proclaimed as fact, rather than the apparent popular perception of a long series of blanks being filled in, or narratives wrenched from errant religious or superstitious beliefs.

But you CANNOT claim to be the scientific ideology, when you run around proclaiming a human being with a Y-chromosome is a woman! When you demand professional help, and psychological and pharmacological treatment for a teenage girl who makes small cuts on her limbs, but applaud and encourage a teenage boy who wants to chop off his balls. When you sneer at the patriarchy for imposing body image issues on a woman who has minor elective surgery to enhance her looks, but praise the appearance of a man who has silicone surgically implanted in his chest.

Being ugly is not the entry key to using the men's restroom, nor is the lack of a penis the determining factor that lets you in the door of the ladies. And if their self-selected mutilations make them unwelcome in their proper facilities? Tough shit (literally, even). You should have thought about that before wasting your money, and society's medical resources. Which is another point, since the government has taken over 1/6th of the economy...it's not just your own resources that are going to waste over this frivolous at best, and abominable at worst preoccupation. So-called 'gender reassignment' procedures are using anesthesia and antibiotics and blood and hospital space that could go to actual sick people. Especially when the prescription of which they are most in need, is so freely available. At least until Sibelius decides to regulate a good smack upside the head along with everything else.

I am willing to concede that there are actual issues and problems with these people that need to be dealt with. They need our pity, our patience, and our prayers. They do not need to, and should not, be indulged, or allowed to indulge in the "treatment" of their desire, any more than a cutter or flat-chested bimbo or self-amputee fetishist should. Anyone who allows a teenager to permanently mutilate his or her or its body, should be shot, or failing that, have their own reproductive organs hacked out to minimize their access to any other children they might get the urge to guide over a cliff.

Abraham Lincoln once posed the question "How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg?" When he received the answer "five", he corrected the other person, that the dog in question still had four legs. Calling a tail a leg does not make it so, any more than calling a man a slave makes him rightful property. And calling a man a woman, or a woman a man, does not change the facts of the matter, no matter how much someone might wish it so, or how extensively they mutilate and drug their bodies to make it so.