Taxing the Wisdom of Solomon

Stay with me now. This is going to get complicated. A Marine, who is listed as "he" in his unit  assignment, but was a "she" at some time in the past (not sure of the time line) has now decided to "begin a family" and is several months pregnant. (Is that a run on sentence? Only Mrs. Cheney knows.) Now for the ticklish (no pun intended) part. She, now he; or is it he acting as a she (again); or is it she acting as a he acting as a she  is requesting a deferment from deployment to the battlefield, where his fellow Marines are headed. The deferment is based upon the pregnancy and impending birth of "his" baby.

The commanding officer (CO) of the unit is in a quandary.  Irregardless of what he does, he will be wrong. ("Irregardless" is the appropriate word for this situation. It is a made-up, nonsense word which contradicts itself. It fits perfectly.) The position assigned to Mr. Marine (for now anyway) cannot be dismissed or transferred. Nor is it wise to deploy with a shortage of manpower (sorry) and expertise that leaving him/her/it behind would entail. "Irregardless."

So a she who wanted to be a he has now reverted to the she-state. Would you think that the "doctor" who facilitated the "transition" from female to male may have been guilty of malpractice? Or something? (http://tellinitllikeitis.blogspot.com/2017/01/mis-mal-and-non-feasance.html) What if this had been a child and the surgery had been done to convert her to a male? Would that be child abuse?

Our old friend Hippocrates said, "Do no harm." It appears doctors and in fact a significant portion of society are all to anxious to jump on the "bandwagon" without doing any real science. And they do this regardless (or irregardless) of whether to patient understands what is involved. Parents want "the best for their child." I would venture to propose an old fashioned suggestion. Sometimes what the kid "wants" and what the kid really needs are not coincident. They need a grownup to make a wise, mature decision.

We all have probably heard of the mechanic who takes a car and begins to replace parts until he happens on the defective one, then returns the "repaired" vehicle, and a very inflated bill. We have a good mechanic who does not react to what I think is wrong. He checks it out for himself and repairs that. Occasionally, I am right. But often "my repair" would cost more and not correct the problem. Kids and sick people do not make good diagnoses. They want immediate relief, regardless of the long term cost. A good doctor will do what is best for the patient, and not necessarily what the patient thinks he or she wants.

Back to our soldier. It would seem that she, then he had a change of mind and is now reverting to their (not sure which pronoun to use, so will got with plural), reverting to their "birth sex." How fortunate that surgical intervention did not preclude that decision. However, the CO still has to make the call on the status of the enlisted person and the combat readiness of his unit.

This would tax and challenge the wisdom of Solomon. He had easy questions, like who was the mother of the dead baby and who was the mother of the live baby? (1 Kings 3) We are living in a society that cannot figure out who is a boy and who is a girl and which bathroom they can use. It is inevitable that our problems will become more complicated, convoluted, and contradictory.

We need a "greater than Solomon." (Luke 11:31