Opposing Madness

MOST PEOPLE probably do not know a lot of diffeent doctors other than their own, and often, since healthy people don't need to see their doctor very often. Folks who are lucky enough to have a doctor don't even know their own doctor very well. One might notice that doctors in general tend to have certain things in common, which tends to be true in all profressions. Their intelligence, education, and scientific, logical way of thinking come to mind, when talking avout medical professionals. Getting to know a few doctors helps people to realize that, by and large, medical decisions, including decisions concerning accepted medical practices, policies, and legalities, should be made by members of the medical profression, by doctors and nurses, by organizations like the AMA. Certainly not by biased, extremist politicians or judges appointed to the bench because of their political orientation, such as Supreme Court members. For instance, who in his or her right mind could reasonabley disagree that the legality of abortion should probably be determined in concert by the medical profession and society's women of child bearning age, than than a handful of judges or state legislatures? Extremist conservative state legislatures are passing laws making it a crime for doctors to give medical treatment to a transgender child unless the doctor does so while pretending that the patient is not transgender. For a doctor to accept and treat a transgender patient becomes a crime, supposedly child abuse, landing the doctor in prison for a minimum of ten years. Other laws being passed permit-require the state to investigate the parents of all transgender children, for possible child abuse, defined as allowing your child to be transgender and supporting his or her decision to so be. This should sound crazy, hard to believe, because it is. The insanity of these laws is that if allowed to take effect and remain in place for very long, they will do irepairable harm, physically and emotionally, to countless people, will, in fact, cost lives, probably many. The already high rate of suicide among gay and transgender people stemming from societal rejection and torment will only increase. Christian conservative America simply must, for the sake of American society, get it through its arguably thick skull that sexual orientation is not a personal choice, a crime, nor a sin, but rather, nothing other than heredity, genetic predisposition, like hair and eye color. Its been proven, repeatedly. These stupid, cruel laws, which legislate and create rather than reduce or eliminate child abuse, are without question largely a result of religion doctrine, and indoctrination of the worst kind, one of many examples of the harmful impact of primitive, outdate religious dogma forced upon the modern world, needlessly. Predictably, revealingly, thankfully, the AMA is dead set against these insane laws, as of course is the LGBTQ community, and most of America. In at least one instance, a federal court has put a "stay" on such a law, delaying its implementation until challenges to its constitutionailty are worked out in the court system, which, if custom holds, might take a long time. Presumably, the issue will end up in the Supreme court, which causes concern, because of the current far right wing make up of the court. Until rather recently, Roe v. Wade seemed untouchable; now, it almost seems doomed, by the Supreme Court. Just as every high school biology teacher in America will tell you that climate change is real and urgent, every doctor in the United States is going to tell you that these laws persecuting transgender people are insane. The persecution consists in legislating them, (transgenders) out of existence. All this madness, this persuction of the LGTBQ community by the evangalical Trump right wing, is merely another manifestation of the hatred and anger which motivates and infuses the entire contemporary Christian conservative community, and must, by any and all means, be oppsoed, defeated and destroyed.