Rationality is being overcome by political correctness.

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)

Tyler Christensen replied March 2, 2021 at 12;32pm

Thank you for your letter, Lynn. I’m afraid I’m having some trouble with portions of it.

 

I’m confused by your references to a “subjective source” and criticism of the physicians’ letter as lacking “reference to an objective reality.” I don’t understand what your basis is for saying they are practicing discrimination.

 

Most importantly, your statement that “science says men are men and women, women” is incorrect, and does not reflect modern understanding of the interrelated but differing definitions of biological sex and gender. Even in the narrowest sense – speaking only of physical sex characteristics – it is a fact that a small percentage of the population is born intersex. [She didn’t have an argument just an unsupported claim so she changed the subject from treating transgenders to a completely different and unrelated subject that had not been brought up by the Doctors or myself.]

 

I hope you find this feedback useful.

 

All the best,

 

Tyler Christensen

Missoulian Opinion editor