{"id":1687514,"date":"2022-10-13T06:48:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687514"},"modified":"2022-10-13T06:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T10:48:23","slug":"breast-cancer-is-a-serious-medical-condition-not-a-free-transgender-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breast-cancer-is-a-serious-medical-condition-not-a-free-transgender-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Is A Serious Medical Condition, Not A Free Transgender Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreast-cancer-is-a-serious-medical-condition-not-a-free-transgender-operation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pexels-klaus-nielsen-6303683.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For nearly four decades, the country has recognized October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sadly, this year we must draw attention to how activists and even some medical professionals are exploiting the complex disease. Breast cancer treatment is the latest medical field to be \u201cqueered.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It may sound astonishing, even unbelievable, but to certain more extreme transgender individuals out there, breast cancer represents not a tragedy, as for most women, but an outright <em>opportunity<\/em> to embrace personal change. Breast cancer becomes reconfigured as the body\u2019s way of rejecting unwanted female breasts in the only way a repressive heteronormative medical hierarchy will allow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtcancer.org\/our-cancer-stories\/transgender-breast-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One online chatroom<\/a> featured testimony from a female transitioner who now purports to be a male named Mike, who praised the \u201csilver lining\u201d of cancer as facilitating not only the removal of her breasts but also, due to related medical reasons, necessitating a full hysterectomy. As such, \u201cI\u2019d say that someone with a great deal of power wants very much for me to be, or at least to look like, a man.\u201d Cancer seems a very strange thing to be thanking God for.<\/p>\n<p>For some so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/notputtingonashirt.org\/2020\/05\/29\/pioneers-in-flat-advocacy-catherine-guthrie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cFlat Activists,\u201d<\/a> \u201cthe male gaze shapes breast cancer care,\u201d and reveals \u201cthe deep roots of misogyny\u201d in the medical profession. As \u201cthe queer community\u201d are more comfortable with magical thinking along the lines of men not necessarily needing penises or women needing vaginas, it naturally follows that breastless females are simply yet another positive manifestation of androgyny, even if said breasts have been surgically removed due to extreme illness. It appears that being transgender is an active advantage for the truly enlightened cancer patient, who will cope with her diagnosis far better than a straight woman ever could.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Social Disease<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A Canadian website, <a href=\"https:\/\/queeringcancer.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">queeringcancer.ca<\/a>, supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, aims to become a \u201cknowledge translation initiative\u201d helping support non-straight cancer sufferers by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmirs.org\/article\/S1939-8654(21)00046-1\/fulltext#relatedArticles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cavoiding gendered categories like \u2018men\u2019s\u2019 and \u2018women\u2019s\u2019 cancers\u201d<\/a>, even though such things demonstrably do exist. Yet blindly agitating to downplay such elementary facts could actually damage these patients\u2019 health by discouraging them to undergo vital procedures such as mammograms or testicular and prostate examinations. Is it really worth sparing someone\u2019s feelings at the expense of costing them their life?<\/p>\n<p>Through the site, LGBT cancer patients can access the personal medical histories of their peers, such as that of British breast cancer survivor <a href=\"https:\/\/bardofupton.co.uk\/2018\/11\/20\/breast-cancer-a-non-binary-perspective\/#more-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Angie Beckles<\/a>, who identifies as being \u201cqueer, autistic, disabled, non-binary, mixed race, demisexual, asexual\/graysexual [and] romantic.\u201d Beckles feels breast cancer is \u201cone of those really gendered cancers\u201d and is \u201cvery, very cisnormative, not to say cissexist\u201d as it forces sufferers to think about their breasts \u201c<em>constantly<\/em> when you\u2019d largely managed to ignore their existence\u201d for years. These \u201cannoying, large lumps\u201d had suddenly \u201csprouted\u201d on her at age 11, \u201cwithout my consent,\u201d only to later \u201chorribly betray her\u201d by becoming cancerous.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer provided Beckles with the opportunity to \u201creassess my gender, the culmination of a long, slow process that had started with being a tomboy as a child\u201d and ended in a hospitalized mastectomy. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Beckles did not want to undergo reconstructive breast surgery following the removal of her affected breast but would have preferred instead to have the other one removed alongside it. This should indeed be her right if that\u2019s what she wants, but Beckles decried the automatic medical presumptions that a) she would want her missing breast surgically reconstructed and that b) she was actually female at all. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Body Politic<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In their never-ending quest to transform all existence into a mere subjective \u201cnarrative\u201d imposed upon an unwilling society from above by straight, cisgender white males, contemporary leftists have unleashed a wave of pseudo-academic papers with titles like <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/23475453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cCancer Knowledge in the Plural: Queering the Biopolitics of Narrative and Affective Mobilities\u201d<\/a> out onto the world. In an era of oppressive \u201cludic capitalism\u201d and \u201cNeoliberal DIY Health logistics,\u201d this paper bewails the emphasis placed by doctors on \u201cstories of the reconstruction of states of normalcy\u201d upon affected bodies, something traditionally known as \u201ccuring patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To \u201cqueer\u201d something, in academic parlance, means to make it non-normative, and cancer, like transgender amputations, will certainly do that to the average human body. According to the paper\u2019s abstract, \u201cQueer cancer narrative practices represent a relationship to health and embodiment that is predicated, not on normalcy, but on troubling norms [and] on artful failure\u201d \u2014 which, as far as I can tell, appears to be a jargonistic euphemism for \u201cdying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6877358\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Problem of Standardized Breast Cancer Narratives,\u201d<\/a> meanwhile, it is asserted that doctors and medical students enjoy \u201cunearned privilege\u201d which blinds them to how \u201cdisruptive narratives of illness can fundamentally challenge assumptions of who patients are and how they should properly act.\u201d Instead of focusing on giving patients hope by pointing to positive stories of cancer survivors, why not instead foreground an \u201cintersectional analysis\u201d of how their illness stands within the contemporary leftist hierarchy of identity politics and class warfare?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Healthy Bodies, Sick Minds<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Of course, there are perfectly good reasons for women to forgo reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy, but the above is not one of them. The next stage in this dismal process is aspiring male transsexuals demanding preferential treatment for their imagined \u201cneeds\u201d over those of actual females with their actual, non-imaginary, cancerous breasts, something that has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/bRJd3\">allegedly already occurred<\/a> in the U.K.\u2019s National Health Service, although the NHS has denied this.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Toby Sinbad Walker caused outrage by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mumsnet.com\/talk\/am_i_being_unreasonable\/3368777-To-think-that-in-the-current-dire-state-of-the-NHS-finances-its-a-no-brainer-that-first-priority-for-mastectomies-goes-to-cancer-patients?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeting this genuine moral obscenity<\/a>: \u201cTrans patients were called last week and informed their long-awaited top surgery [i.e. taxpayer-funded breast removals] had been cancelled to let more cancer mastectomies happen. It\u2019s not their [i.e. transsexuals\u2019] responsibility. Our surgery is not cosmetic. Transgender wait times are fatal and #IWon\u2019tDieWaiting.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>No, but women with actual breast cancer will, won\u2019t they? Ostentatiously threatening to commit suicide just so you can jump the line for surgery over those who actually need it seems like the ultimate unhealthy self-obsession. The way cancer works to metastasize and rot healthy bodies from within is precisely what queer theory seeks to do to the West, transforming a previously sound society into an ailing and morally inverted one. <\/p>\n<p>If your physical body is healthy, yet you try to steal precious care away from those dying of breast cancer \u2014 and proudly post and boast about it to all \u2014 then, ironically, you clearly are a very sick individual indeed, just not in the way you think you are.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Steven Tucker is a United Kingdom-based writer with several books to his name. He is a long-time lover of art history, and as a consequence has never once visited York Art Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly four decades, the country has recognized October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 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