Light of 19 Sivan 5783 | אור י"ט סיון ה'תשפ"ג
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Beilinson Hospital (also known as the Yitzhak Rabin Medical Center) has just started hospitalizing "gay" men, whose surrogate is giving birth, in their maternity ward. This link is from an article posted on Monday, 5 June, in A7. Originally written and posted at Israel haYom; I couldn't find it there.
(I had to be very careful about where to put the commas in the first sentence because the surrogate will not, or did not, depending on the timing of my post, give birth in the maternity ward, but in the gynecology department. Next door? I don't know. But can you imagine?)
The Jewish Press points out the waste of hospital bed space and the silliness of having these men hospitalized. Are hospitals supposed to promote "wokeness" or actually treat people in need...when it is clear that it is the woman giving birth who needs the care, consideration and privacy — all of them together — and not the men in question. (A whole other issue may arise for lesbian couples, but I haven't seen any relatively equivalent examples on the distaff side anywhere.)
Parenthood training can be done elsewhere: in a local clinic, for example. These men are not going to be baring their chests for the purpose of nursing the infants they bring home.
But my concern in this article is not the comfort and catering to these homosexual couples. It is the effect this will have on society around the world, not just in Israel — although, many Israelis expect our country to set an example in common decency.
We seem to be first to have a hospital that allows people who should not be patients at all to take up bed space and hospital supplies for the sake of "political correctness." I desperately hope I'm wrong. Consequences will follow; I just hope they descend early enough and swiftly enough that we as a nation don't come out too badly from the experiment.
We can, and should, protest this "advancement" in modern morés based on derekh eretz (common decency) alone.
After all, how many women really want to take a chance that after the birth they will share a room with two men? They are recovering from a difficult enough process without making it worse by forcing them to maintain the privacy and standard of care they require and deserve. Hospitals need to wake up and smell the burning coffee!
Maybe one of the men needs to have a C-section to make it more real for him (and his partner)? Or an episiotomy?
It began with ignoring the sullying of Yerushalayim for a month every summer with "pride parades" for years, with the support of various versions of our government.
In any case, how are these parents going to explain to their children, when the time comes, where they came from, and how babies are born? How far do we have to stray from the simple explanation?
And how can Jews support this kind of thing and expect to stay in the land of Israel? And if too many support it, how can any kind of state be sustained? If too many of our children completely transition, how many will be available to give birth to the generation after them?
God does not have to slaughter them all, as we see in the Torah (the "cowboy stories," as my husband refers to them, are in the book of BaMidbar/Numbers, the one we're in now, with all their guts and gore exposed.). He is eternal, He can wait the generation of time it will take for us all to see the results on the ground. And then who will defend the country?
I vote for the (by then) old people who advocated for this path and banned all the religious, God-fearing population from influencing our direction, whether they were for the coalition or for the opposition.
SMH.
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Before I go, there is something else.
I want to make sure our youth who are considering transition, and possibly have begun it from their birth gender to the other one, have something to read and think about before they actually make it final. I hope that the articles I linked to in my last post will help; however, I want to make it even clearer:
Many before you did what you want to do now, but ended up not liking their choice.
They cannot change back.
Important parts, once taken off, and hormones that have been nullified by their opposite, cannot be replaced easily, if at all.
Think about this carefully. You may say that you're not them, and that you aren't going to have the same reaction they had. I mean, are still having! They found out that the doctors and psychologists and psychiatrists and their schoolmasters (er, I mean principals and teachers alike) who promoted this damaging farce did not have their best interest at heart after all. And they can't be put back together again.
As the old English nursery rhyme ends it:
All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Here's what the expression Humpty Dumpty means, when it doesn't come with the rhyme.
Ask yourself: Must I really follow the crowd, or the leader who won't have to pay my price?
I'd like to think you can think, fast-forward style, for yourself.
I hope you will do this just because you can.
I believe in you.
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Here's a really good article with more background on the issue as it is being presented in Israel.
A Controversial Trend on Israel’s Doorstep: Ms. Abigail Shrier Brings the Transgender Debate to Tel Aviv
I pity the poor transgender children who think it's only about their rights to do whatever they want with their bodies. It's much bigger than that, the stakes are much higher.
If this trend continues and becomes successful among advocates for this societal change as well as born girls wanting to become boys (and vice versa), the chances are great that, less than twenty years from now, homosexual men won't have the choice of surrogates that they have today to give birth to their children, and that lesbians won't have the choice of men to father theirs.
All too many of them will have been "efeminized" (see definition in the footnote HERE) (and emasculated) without recourse to return to what they were. To make it plainer, they won't have gender at all (which is another term for s*xuality), in real terms.
And by then, it may not be so fun to be homos*xual, or transgender, anymore. Trends tend to change rapidly.
But the biggest question now, as we sit in front of our computer screens reading this is:
How will I be able to live with myself after it's all done, considering that others before me find it difficult for themselves?
Do I have to make the same mistake they did?
I hope that geulah shlemah (the complete redemption: the saving of the world and many of its inhabitants) will come well before it comes to that, with the help of God, its Creator and ours.
