Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn talks about the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender community, discussing a case of a family comprised of several LGBT people, and their 9 year old daughter. He expressed disbelief that such an arrangement could be considered a family, saying if it works, then he's a Nigerian lesbian. Read what he wrote below....
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. From yesterday’s Daily Mail: ‘A transsexual man went to court for the right to contact the child of his former lesbian partner.
‘He brought the civil case despite having no connection with the nine-year-old girl. Identified only as Alice, she was born to two lesbians who used donor sperm from a man also in a same-sex relationship.
‘The couple — known as Rachel and Helen — split up when Alice was three. Rachel, who was her natural mother, was sectioned with schizophrenia and Helen entered a relationship with Matthew, the man who has brought the case.’
Run that by me again.
And
I’m not the only one confused. Several puzzled readers emailed
yesterday morning in relation to this story. The reaction of Paul
Oliver, from Ilford, was typical: ‘You’re an intelligent man, Rich. Can
you explain this? I can’t keep up.
‘When
he [Matthew, presumably] met Helen he was a woman having treatment to
live as a man. They were together for four years — Alice living with
them — and he claims she called him “Daddy” and he became her effective
stepfather.
They
[Matthew and Helen, do pay attention] split up in 2013 and Matthew has
had no contact with Alice, who has been diagnosed with autism, for
almost a year.
‘Having
completed his gender reassignment, Matthew asked the Family Court to
allow him to apply for an order for contact with Alice. His request was
opposed by both Helen and Rachel, who said Alice had started to call
herself Daniel and claim she was boy while living with Matthew.
‘Helen
was said to be very concerned that he encouraged Alice [Daniel?] to
wear boys’ clothes and told her to avoid playing with gender appropriate
toys.’
I’m
sorry if you read this yesterday, but it is worth repeating in some
detail if we are to get any kind of handle on what on earth is occuring
here. I’ll try to edit it as I go along.
Apparently,
Helen claims that Matthew was ‘controlling and verbally and mentally
abusive’ and became aggressive during his testosterone treatment.
As
a result: ‘Helen, who suffers from personality disorder and has limited
mobility, said she did not want Alice to stay overnight at the home of
Matthew and his new partner James.’
Hi, James! Welcome to the House of Fun.
‘Rachel,
who had been Helen’s civil partner, said Alice already had contact with
both her mothers and her biological father, the gay sperm donor.’
Rachel now lives ‘in the community in supported accommodation’.
‘Matthew, who also has psychiatric problems, said Alice knew he used to be a woman but had only known him as a man.’
Hang
on, when Matthew was living with Helen and Alice, he was still a woman
undergoing gender reassignment treatment. We don’t know what his name
was before he started calling himself Matthew, but it’s academic,
anyway.
None
of those involved can be identified for legal reasons to protect
Alice’s (or should that be Daniel’s?) anonymity. And there’s the crux of
all this. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that at the heart of this
flying circus of selfishness is a vulnerable nine-year-old girl who has
allegedly been encouraged to think of herself as a boy by a man who used
to be a woman.
Is it any wonder Alice is confused, poor kid?
Alice was brought into this world by two lesbians, using sperm donated by a homosexual who was living with another man.
Her
biological mother, Rachel, was subsequently sectioned with
psychological problems and Alice was left in the care of Helen, the
other half of the lesbian relationship, who suffers from a personality
disorder and has limited mobility.
Helen
took up with Matthew, who also has psychiatric problems and at the time
was a woman undergoing gender reassignment treatment to become a man.
Did no one at any stage stop to think what might be in the best
interests of the child?
The
lesbians were busy exercising their ‘right’ to have a baby by
artificial insemination. Matthew was exercising his ‘right’ to become a
man.
But
what about their responsibilities towards Alice? Where the hell were
social services in all of this? Celebrating diversity, probably.
No
doubt in the authorities’ determination to be ‘non-judgmental’ any
concerns about the welfare of this little girl went straight out of the
window.
This
is where the insanity of the ‘rights’ culture leads. And there is no
group more militant or vituperative than the minuscule but totalitarian
‘trans’ lobby.
The
BBC’s James Naughtie has been hounded into issuing a grovelling apology
because he referred to someone called Caitlyn Jenner as ‘he/she’.
Caitlyn used to be a male athlete called Bruce Jenner, and is apparently
something to do with the American TV freak show, Keeping Up With The
Kardashians.
Jenner
is featured on the cover of Vanity Fair in a strapless corset. Even
though the athlete formerly known as Bruce has fathered children and is
still, reportedly, in possession of a full set of male genitalia, his
supporters insist ‘she has always been a woman’.
According
to the new orthodoxy, people are allowed to self-define their gender.
So if a man says he’s a woman, then the rest of us have to go along with
it. There is no reasoning with these fanatics.
Presumably, then, I could announce that I was a Nigerian lesbian and no one would be able to argue with me. This is madness.
Look,
I’ve written before that I support the right of the tiny number of
people affected by gender dysphoria to receive treatment on the NHS. But
there are other considerations, not least the impact on any children
involved.
Children
are moulded by their upbringing and environment. And in this case, it’s
no surprise that Alice is such a crazy, mixed-up kid, given the adult
role models in her life. She should have been taken into care years ago.
Fortunately,
the Family Court turned down Matthew’s application for contact with
her, on the grounds that it could be damaging to her wellbeing. How did
this ever get to court and how much has it cost us?
After
handing down his ruling, Judge Clifford Bellamy, an ordained Methodist
minister, felt obliged to add: ‘Alice’s story is an example of the
different ways in which modern family life is formed. It can be
complicated.’
True, but please don’t try to pretend this is the new normal.
When Call Me Dave became Conservative leader in 2005, he insisted that we must support families of all shapes and sizes.
Fair
enough. But I don’t think Alice’s dysfunctional ‘family’ — two lesbian
mums with psychiatric problems, a gay sperm donor dad and a transsexual
‘step-father’ who encouraged her to become a boy — is exactly what he
had in mind.
Source: Daily Mail
0 comments :
Post a Comment