{"id":2745,"date":"2016-11-21T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2016-11-21T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:23:14","slug":"transgender-movement-compared-to-hysterias-of-1980s-and-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Transgender movement compared to hysterias of 1980s and &#8217;90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161121Corradi.jpg\" alt=\"161121corradi\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161121Corradi.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161121Corradi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Nov. 21, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransgenderism would refute the natural laws of biology and transmute human nature. The movement\u2019s philosophical foundation qualifies it as a popular delusion similar to the multiple-personality craze, and the widespread \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019 and \u2018recovered memory\u2019 hysterias of the 1980s and \u201990s. These last two involved bizarre accusations of child abuse and resulted in the prosecution and ruined lives of the falsely accused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch popular delusions are characterized by a false belief unsupported by any scientific or empirical evidence and have a contagious quality that overrides rational thinking and even common sense. &#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/11\/17\/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Psychiatry Professor: \u2018Transgenderism\u2019 Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Richard B. Corradi at the Federalist (Nov. 17)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Corradi is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, where his opinion of transgenderism is \u201cin no manner shared by this department or by Case Western Reserve or&#8230; the American Psychiatric Association or mainstream psychiatry.\u201d\u00a0 A more widely accepted view: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowlyboiledfrog.com\/2016\/11\/you-would-think-that-professor-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">You would think that a professor of psychiatry would know better<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by David Cary Hart at the Slowly Boiled Frog (Nov. 18)<\/p>\n<p>But what you won\u2019t see debated among 21st Century psychiatrists and social scientists is Corradi\u2019s characterization of\u00a0 \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d as \u201ca popular delusion.\u201d Perhaps one day the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2731\">will decide to join them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 21, 2016 \u201cTransgenderism would refute the natural laws of biology and transmute human nature. The movement\u2019s philosophical foundation qualifies it as a popular delusion similar to the multiple-personality craze, and the widespread \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019 and \u2018recovered memory\u2019 hysterias of the 1980s and \u201990s. These last two involved bizarre accusations of child abuse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}