I've recently been reading The Chrysalids again, an excellent novel by the amazing John Wyndham
Its set, ominously enough, in post apocalyptic Labrador, Canada
The main story is about Eugenics in a puritan religious rural society
Again, I think the irony of it's location is very significant.
Basically any human, animal, or plant that doesn't conform to the "Norm" is destroyed or cast out.
So a little girl born with six toes is cast out to the dark forest and her parents jailed, amongst many other atrocities listed in the book.
You see, in Canada there has been an unofficial eugenics program being carried out for the last 30+ years.
Once medical ultrasound was openly available in the late 40's and early 50's it was used to identify children with birth defects for the purposes of aborting them. Before that, if a child was born with significant abnormalities it would suffer an "accident" or sickness and wouldn't even get out of the hospital, once ultrasound was available it simply became a matter of abortion, which was much less risky to the doctors involved.
During the 50's and 60's this was a good thing as new pesticides sprayed on crops were found to cause various mutations, especially sexual mutations, pesticides were found to cause various intersexual and even hermaphroditic expressions in both animals and humans. But they were big money, so it was cheaper to abort the 4 or 5 children per province per year affected.
Consider that Leonardo DaVinci is considered by many researchers to have been a hermaphrodite. Consider that the Irish (and Scottish as well I believe, I'm not sure, but I have some Scottish in me...) hero Cuchulain was also "of both man and woman" (you have to read the full versions, not the Christianized ones).
They would have been aborted at birth. If they'd have managed to have been born, they would have been murdered shortly after in the hospital by a "flu" or "tuberculosis" or something.
If they were born at home by a mid wife they would have been murdered by a puritanical father or mother. If they managed to slip past all of that, they would have been murdered anytime someone found out in a land where people are regularly murdered for being gay or lesbian.
I'm sure there are some who think I'm overreacting and blowing it out of proportion.
But consider the Compulsory Sterilization of the mentally ill in British Columbia and Alberta, which continued up until 1972!!!
Even more disturbing was the fact that very few people recieved any compensation, and NO ONE WAS GIVEN ANY JAILTIME.
Want to know something even more disturbing?
Until 1973 Gays/lesbians/transgenders/and intersex conditions were all considered by the DSM to be "Mentally Ill". If you don't get it yet, that means they qualified for Compulsory Sterilization.
Thousands of doctors took part in these programs silently.
But none of them ever recieved a criminal sentence. Records were silently destroyed.
We only KNOW about the eugenics program against the mentally ill.
The truth of the matter is, the program went far beyond just the mentally ill.
It was in place for almost 50 years
And its never actually gone away.
Statistically there should be approximately 2 full hermaphrodites (both sets of sexual organs, not just intersexed) per 100, 000 births. There aren't even 1/10 that many alive in Canada.
But realistically, they are being killed at a number of different points in medicine and society, and have no protection in Law, as really.
They aren't considered human in Canada.
We read about such things being done in the past but we continually forget how many fascists escaped prosecution by secretly emigrating to Canada in the late 40's.
I really don't care if you believe me. The truth always hurts.
But it's a big problem today, since to become a doctor or lawyer and get to "the top" in Canada, you have to join a "Society" or "Fraternity" and many of these organizations are completely white and male, racist/bigoted/homophobic and their members consider their actions as for the "greater good"
Eugenics, believe it or not, is considered by many people, even now, to be for the Greater Good.
Maybe you don't think it applies to you, thinking about this.
But consider parts of Africa, where at 14 a girl has her clitoris forcibly sliced off so she won't feel as much pleasure in sex during life. That's THEIR cultural pogrom.
So what about the future? When instead of waiting until they are 14, they will just snip every little girl child's clit off at shortlay after birth, just like boys are circumcised today?
they don't really "need" that, it's better for everybody if we snip it off.....
Does that hit a nerve and make it sink in a bit more?
Alberta and BC have a LONG history of Eugenics, secret and deadly.
So if you've actually been following along a bit, and know a little bit about me, you'll understand why I am having problems finding a doctor I can trust in BC, why I'm actually scared of being killed on an operating table, why I have doctors straight out lying to my face about things I actually know about for a fact, and why no one really cares if a bunch of assholes rip Mr. Taylor off or kill him.
It's for the Greater Good.
