Your Back Yard: We Must Protect The Most Vulnerable When It Comes To Open To All Ages Story Time

By John Katz Editor The American Dossier & Dr. William Devlin CEO REDEEM! An International Humanitarian Organization Just when you thought things could not get any odder in regards to gender selection and its forceful agenda one has popped up in the backyard of Philadelphia. On June 15th in the name of cultural diversity Haverford Township is sponsoring an all ages Drag Queen Storytime as part of the Haverford Township Free Library Pride Day Activities (think: your tax dollars at work). This is not the only most recent Drag Queen performance at a local library in the Philadelphia area: the sleepy suburb of Lansdale had its own drag performance in February 2019. With an appearance of dragster Annie Christ. This article is not about judgment of the LGBTQIA community individual adult choices or against pride and liberation. Rather this article is about the reality of consequences as this is simply not an all ages" appropriate event. Why have a sexually charged performer perform in front of children? Why have a man dressed as a woman? Why not have a scientist a doctor an astronaut a military person? How many parents are thinking When my son grows up I want him to be a drag queen" ? A few weeks ago The New England Journal of Medicine relayed a story in which there was a loss of life of a baby because the hospital did not identify the transgendered patient as a pregnant biological female. Keep in mind even though he/she self-identified as a male and his /her records indicated he/she was male. In the view of The New England Journal the hospital failed to do its duty. The question to ask is: What about an individuals individual responsibility to disclose facts? Oath-taking has become nearly universal at U.S. medical schools as hardly any schools use the original oath that Hippocrates wrote in regard to doing no harm. In todays world most if not all medical schools now have students vow not to discriminate against patients based on gender race religion or sexual orientation. The Hippocratic Oath has gone into the dustbin of history. There has been much in the news lately about the push for cultural acceptance of transgender and biological gender choice and transitioning. We have become a society much focused on affirming personal and lifestyle feelings and choices. In the midst of this rush to base our society on personal feelings and choices we as a society have neglected the reality of consequences. We have lost our ethical compass on how these choices have real consequences. The quid pro quo has gone too far. It is one thing to be accepting and compassionate; it is another to be negligent. And we have reached the level of societal negligence to the max. Is it normal for under-age children to be exposed to a man who desires to be a woman or exposed to a man who desires to dress like a woman? Is this the new normal in our culture? Should we as a society be rushing headlong in continuing to blur the line between male and female? What is the end of all this? With society and culture stripped of the reality of consequences there is no end. A middle school in North Carolina recently sponsored a show and tell with drag queens in the guise of to celebrate the unique differences between the schools students. Here is the problem with this type of activity: children under 25 scientifically and biologically are not yet able to process on a rational level let alone make choices in regards to sexuality or lifestyle. It is age inappropriate and undermines the role of societal and cultural norms; as well for normal biological norms this undermines the solid input of a male father and female mother that the majority of children in the United States are raised in this normal context. (Yet is not something amiss when this article has to refer to a male father and a female mother?) Because a particular behavior has become culturally acceptable does not make it appropriate in regard to brain development. Regarding the cognitive anatomical and biological side of consequences adults use their prefrontal cortex the brains rational part which is able to process situations with judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Children and those still in their teens process information with the amygdale the emotional part of the brain-thus the need for societal and cultural norms that are then reinforced by loving parents. According to the University of Rochester Medical Center the rational part of the human brain isnt fully developed and wont be until about age of 25. This is why we protect our children and regard as to why we have laws against underage voting smoking and drinking. Should this guideline be considered when we entrust ours schools to do no harm and protect the most vulnerable members of our society: our children?