Transgenderism Is Nonsense – Nobel Prize Winner
Human biology and the wishful concept of transgenderism are simply incompatible.
“There are people who want to change their gender, but they can’t do it,” Dr Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, 1995 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine for her research in early embryonic development, told German feminist magazine EMMA. The idea that people can change their gender is “nonsense. It’s wishful thinking. People retain their gender for life.”
Ruth Institute president Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, commented,
“We’ve been called ‘bigots’ and ‘hateful’ for saying exactly the same thing.”
“A political movement has sprung up around the idea that a man who says he’s a woman in fact is a woman. Civil rights laws have been misapplied to promote this bizarre notion,” Morse said.
“The idea now dominates public education to the extent that many schools allow ‘transgender females’ to use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. An 80-year-old woman was banned from the YMCA for objecting to a man in a woman’s swimsuit in the ladies’ shower and changing rooms. This politically driven transgenderism is nonsense.”
Unhealthy
Nusslein-Volhard also warned of the dangers of so-called gender transitioning with drugs and surgery.
“The body cannot handle it in the long run. Every hormone you take has side effects. Taking hormones is inherently dangerous.”
Morse responded:
“Increasingly, detransitioners are coming forward to tell their stories and warn of the physical and psychological dangers of what’s called gender-transitioning.
“At a recent legislative hearing in Florida, a young woman described these effects of undergoing transgender surgery at age 15, including a double mastectomy, which will increase the risk of certain cancers and leave her unable to breastfeed, even if she can conceive and carry a child to term.
“I wish this distinguished German biologist could talk some common sense to the US medical associations that have endorsed this radical, life-altering course. Transgenderism is nonsense. Pure and simple.”
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Originally published at The Ruth Institute.
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