Michael Breen: Those living any lifestyle deserve truth, love, and respect

To The Daily Sun,

Gender ideology’s assertion that sex is “assigned” at birth, as taught in Moultonborough schools, violates education’s unequivocal responsibility to teach truths. In the minds of children, the claim’s nuance is understood as a type of randomness seemingly confirmed by other delusional instructions such as “there are as many identities as there are people.” This sophistry of reason is so confusing to the young’s still-developing-minds, it is undoubtedly one reason why Komodo Health reports that about 42,000 children were diagnosed with sexual dysphoria 2021 — a nearly threefold increase since 2017.

To be clear, one’s sex starts to develop shortly after conception, and is typically known long before birth. In this period of life, the human body is flooded with the hormones that create either male or female physical and cognitive features. Sex is confirmed at birth; not discovered at birth. It is not an assignment or a performative act among competing criteria. It is not random, an allocation, an opinion, or a feeling. Except for the rare faction of the 500 or so hermaphrodites born annually, it is always, simply, an observation.

This reality is not prejudiced nor disrespectful to any sexual minorities of any age. Truth is the absence of bias and disrespect. Those living any lifestyle distinct from their biological sex, for multiple reasons still being understood, deserve truth, love, and respect. This demands the legitimacy inherent in truthfulness. One’s biological sex is a reality reflected in virtually every cell in one’s body. It is not a malleable creation of the mind nor is it “fluid.” Efforts to mislead our still cognitively developing children and teens, even when well-intended, is not compassionate. It is often harmful. It should stop.

Michael D. Breen

Moultonborough