Creative Minority Report: PA's Gov. Elect Nominates Transgender Doc as Physician General
Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 2 months ago to The Gulch: General
I wonder if this is purely political or if she is qualified. I expect some real debate about this in my home state.
http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Richard...
This is the sort of thing that should happen. Pity it was not a Republican who made the appointment.
Jan
(NB Many transgender do not look pretty to outsiders.)
Fine, appoint "him", whatever. But for the love of what is TRUE, stop calling "him" a "her".
Call "him" Rachel, just don't call him a woman. He is not a woman. Just becuase he wants to be a woman, and acts like a woman, does not mean that he is a woman. He has an X and a Y chromosome. He is a dude. A dude named Rachel. A little weird to me, but whatever.
For a doctor, that should not be too difficult to elect hair implants on the forehead, and to something about that brow line... and why put lipstick on those thin lips !
This makes me wonder if she was chosen for her skills or for the shock value of her creepy smile.
Of course, there are a few who look gorgeous!
https://www.ted.com/talks/geena_rocero_w...
Jan
(In the new revised Gulch, may we post pics? It would be a lot easier for the reader to see what I meant if I could just insert a pic of Geena in a bikini instead of linking to the TED talk.)
That's the real question - the one to get up in arms about - is (a) What are the job requirements and (b) what's her qualifications? What she has in her pants is about as irrelevant to the question of if she can do the job as is the color of her skin, the length of her hair, the size of her home, or who she sleeps with at night.
I see some stuff about her practice (she apparently works with people with eating disorders), but nothing about her experience administering departments, policies, or programs... Ya never know; some people shine when thrown into a new arena, others fail miserably. I guess time will tell... and that she wasn't put there to be some kind of poster child for a political agenda - THAT would be a recipe for disaster..
I tend to look at and judge someone based on their (a) qualifications, (b) integrity, (c) intelligence, and (d) objectivity... not on (a) what they have (or had) in their pants, (b) who they sleep with, (c) something I read in the media, or (d) what they look like.
If she says she is a she... and I don't have personal firsthand knowledge of anything different... then why would I call a cat a camel? Or a dog?
Sorry to go off topic...
You're entitled to your opinion, but there's a saying about opinions as well... regardless, you can waste your own time hanging here like a barfly... I'm done with this nonsense.
Somehow my stating the facts of a case and pointing our the truth has morphed into an "opinion"
need to be shared with the posters on that linked site, Rich...
Nah, don't bother... their 'minds' are already made up... And gee, can we see that here, too?
How Objective.... not.
Debate should reveal some biases.
Call him Rachel, whatever, but don't play the fool's game and call a man "her".
Just like Ayn Rand said, basically "wanting something to be true doesn't make it true".