2/27/2021

Five physicians educated in the objective science of medicine recently remonstrated against what they called discrimination against LGBTQ “rights.” But their claims ignored the fact of their subjective source. They told their readers what they thought with no reference to an objective reality or the values derived from it. Practicing the discrimination they allegedly abhor, they failed to distinguish between what is fair and what is not to render their preferred conclusions.

But for one instance their complaints are too many to mention here. Generally, no one wants to be an agent of human suffering. That is why some doctors do not want to be forced to treat transgenders according to prescribed political opinions. The writers decry such a position as hurtful; physicians trained in objective assessment might say that to reinforce errant perceptions is even more so. Science says men are men and women, women. That is not a vacuous political opinion.

Understanding transgenders underlying psychology would help them immensely but these physicians deny that confused thinking, apparently to “win” a political argument.

It was Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “conviction that the health of a social order is dependent on the ideas active within it.” Anybody know a good Doctor?

(Alan P.R. Gregory, Coleridge and the Conservative Imagination, p. 34)