The problem here is an either/or proposition. You are being led to believe that there are only two sides to an issue. That forces you to demonize those with whom you disagree. You conveniently denigrate those in the majority who did not vote for the President as no longer important or worthy of contempt. Well, that's ok, no skin off my nose...but we did not just disappear. I am glad you are not one of us....cause that would make me one of you. See how that either/or thinking works?

As for the massive fog supposedly caused by the press, the authors are putting the cart before the horse. An administration that sets policy by tweet, untruths, fox news, flattery, and deliberate misinformation is the fog the press is trying to cut through. You may believe there is no ruling class, but the recent tax cuts say otherwise. I do know who my leaders are, and they do not include those who think of politics as a 'game' to be won at all cost. Politics is not a game. The 'press' is fulfilling it's role reporting on the government, and fact checking the claims of the White House ministry of truth.

You're characterization that only Trump supporters are good and the rest evil mis-states a couple of things. Most polls show that more than 50% would disagree with you. Also, you are mistaken about your internal struggle: the ministry has already made the decision for you. It's enemies are your enemies.

This Man Received 167 Sex-Change Surgeries. He Lives in a World of Regret.

Walt Heyer / January 12, 2018 /

Blair Logsdon's 167 surgeries cost him $220,000 and left him, in his words, "disfigured." (Photo: iStock Photos)
Commentary By

Walt Heyer

Walt Heyer is an author and public speaker. Through his website, SexChangeRegret.com, and his blog, WaltHeyer.com, Heyer raises public awareness about those who regret gender change and the tragic consequences suffered as a result.

Recently I interviewed a person whose experience with gender-change surgeries was so extreme, it gained him entry in the Guinness World Records book for the most gender-reassignment surgeries for an individual person.

Blair Logsdon’s story is a cautionary tale for anyone today who is considering the use of cross-gender hormones and gender-change surgery to feel better about themselves.

Logsdon underwent 167 surgeries from 1987 to 2005 in his quest to resolve gender dysphoria with surgery. On a cold, snowy December morning in a Maryland coffee shop, he shared with me his story.

In 1987, at the age of 26, he underwent the first of many cosmetic surgeries to change his gender/sex appearance from male to trans-female. Within a few months, he said he deeply regretted becoming a trans-woman.

For the next five years, he struggled in his life as a woman before undergoing a genital surgical change to restore his original male self.

But peace with his gender eluded him.

With gender dysphoria still present and feeling unsettled, Logsdon underwent yet another gender change and returned to self-identifying as trans-female.

Doctors, apparently with total and reckless disregard for Logsdon’s emotional, psychological, and sexual well-being, ignored his obvious distress about previous cosmetic surgeries and indulged his requests for more.

Logsdon said he continued to have regrets about the feminizing surgeries, even as he strongly felt the need for more, caught in a cycle of hope followed by disappointment.

By 2005, seven cosmetic surgeons had performed 167 gender-affirming surgeries on his body, filling their bank accounts to the tune of more than $220,000 and leaving him, in his words, “disfigured.”

Logsdon says he regrets all 167 surgeries. No longer turning to the surgeons to discover his “true self,” he has found his true male self in following Jesus Christ.

>>> For more on how to understand transgender issues, check out Ryan Anderson’s new book “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment“

I do not blame Logsdon one bit in his case. The doctors and surgeons failed him in their responsibility to “first, do no harm”—as the Hippocratic Oath says—and wrongfully profited from the 167 disfiguring surgeries. Yet, they will not be held accountable or responsible for gross medical misconduct or malpractice against this good man.

At some point, these surgeons should have refused requests for more surgery and protected Logsdon from harming himself further. Instead, they chose to take advantage of his emotionally, psychological, or sexually unhealthy and unstable psyche.

Transgender People Could Benefit From Hearing the Truth

As a society we, too, fail transgender people by withholding the truth from them in the belief that telling the truth is somehow offensive and hateful. No—following the evidence is not hate speech, it is the foundation of the scientific research.

Several core truths have been relegated to the category of hate speech. For example:

There is no objective evidence to show that transgender people even exist, beyond the person’s own feelings and gender-dysphoric imagination.
Strong persistent feelings of being the opposite sex are not based in biology (“born this way”), but stem from emotional, psychological, or sexual factors.
Ignoring the protocols of effective psychological diagnosis harms trans-people because it guarantees they will not get effective treatment for coexisting disorders.

The Truth: Psychotherapy Is Important

For the last 50 years, the transgender ideology has grown progressively more deadly and destructive as it takes lives via suicide, destroys marriages, rips family relationships apart (including my own), and now expects the whole of society to reject the physical truth about sex and gender in public places and in social interactions, under the threat of ostracization and legal prosecution.

Transgender people are provided only one remedy: to wholeheartedly embrace an alternative gender/sex ideology that attempts to redefine their gender/sex and promises healing.

When the cross-gender hormonal and surgical protocols and lifestyle changes fail to bring relief to those experiencing gender dysphoria, as Logsdon found, often what remains is depression, despair, and regret, leading some to attempt suicide.

Doctors should focus on uncovering the parallel disorders that often lie at the root of the trans-person’s distorted self-identity. These often include alcohol abuse, drug usage, chronic depression, and personality disorders.

Uncovering these disorders results from engaging in effective psychotherapy, not surgery.

Providing psychotherapy first in the treatment of gender dysphoria could be a key factor in reversing the staggering 41 percent rate of suicide attempts among transgender individuals.

It could also reduce the number of people who seek out self-mutilation in an attempt to find inner peace, and thus prevent these people from digging deep wells of regret.

I’m sure I will catch some heat for publicly sharing the truth here. But saving one life is worth the heat.

If you’ve seen the 1992 film “A Few Good Men,” you’ll remember the pivotal courtroom scene where Col. Nathan Jessup (played by Jack Nicholson) shouts at the cross-examination lawyer (played by Tom Cruise) the now-famous line, “You can’t handle the truth!”

The same can be said today to those who declare that the only treatment for gender dysphoria is to affirm it, to give patients cross-gender hormones, and to perform gender-change surgeries: “You can’t handle the truth!”

Even though America started the UN after WWII, to protect mankind throughout the ages it has been responsible for placing into power some of the largest dictators, monarchs and potentates. In the last eight years Obama and his agenda has been able to build this once peace keeping group into a 192 country weaponized threat to everybody on earth, now they want to open all borders, making all countries nothing more then an after thought, for if a country does not have a borders it no longer becomes a country, without borders there is no sovereignty and without that you will have no free will for there will always be someone there that wants to impose their will on others.

When taken over by the malignant forces that take the first bite it will all be by force and without your own defense your vulnerable and at the mercy of whoever has the biggest force.

I don't know if the UN has always had the idea that they could absorb the US, but that is what it looks like Obama has thought possible, for the NATO has always wanted the US armed forces and the rest would go to whoever the UN would assign to the task, which Obama would have the inside track on.

The UN has now taken the pretense of opening all borders well mean good will, which is nothing more then another word for the New World Order or you could more consider it the New World Criminal {organization}. So they omit that one little word, it's kind of like what the DNC does with the word Democrat, they only throw that Dem in there to fool and deceive.

They throw that Democrat in there to make everyone thing that through them is the only way that you will get the true meaning of democracy, where as if you think about it you have a Party sponsored by a vengeful, malignant billionaire Nazi, that is partnered up to a lying, traitorous, narcissistic Muslim that is pared with a woman that would DO ANYONE and ANYTHING to get what she wants, making her the patsy for this cookie. In doing so Hillary took in everyone and built the DNC from a respected political party that you could trust, into a party of hate, bias and bigotry.

With the passing of this last election and Hillary Clinton and Obama embracing the Communist Party they now truly are the DNC and can consider themselves the {Democrat/Nazi/Communists} Party of Soros' Muslims. They have accomplished to destroy a once trusted group into a criminal organization with a socialistic Communistic, Radical Islamic motivator. This kind of compounded evil is bad for everyone around them, because trying to make a deal with all of these, no mater how they divide the US up and how they design the government of each it is going to be a complete devastating disaster for us all.

The UN is now just another group of 192 countries that are half dictators, chieftains and monarchs, that they have placed in power in most places, using American taxpayer's money to aid in their armies with weapons, planning and terrorism to do coups of in the areas and then helped them get recognize into the UN just for their vote.

"This is how you build a weapon~!"