{"id":38052,"date":"2025-06-22T04:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38052"},"modified":"2025-06-22T04:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:28:22","slug":"briefly-only-men-have-prostates-so-why-are-health-orgs-virtue-signaling-by-targeting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38052","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Only men have prostates, so why are health orgs virtue-signaling by targeting \u2018women\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prostate-cancer-and-trans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38053\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prostate-cancer-and-trans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prostate-cancer-and-trans.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prostate-cancer-and-trans-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prostate-cancer-and-trans-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about this, I thought it must be satire. When I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/06\/09\/women-targeted-in-prostate-cancer-campaign-by-major-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was real<\/a>, I was appalled, but I still thought it must be a one-time thing from some nutty activist. But it turns out it\u2019s the latest bit of pandering to a bunch of far-left activists who believe that a man can become a woman if he decides to claim he\u2019s a woman. As everybody knows, men have prostate glands. Women do not. Period. End of story. Men can get prostate cancer. Women cannot. But political activists are so eager to pretend that a man claiming to be a \u201ctrans woman\u201d is really a woman that they are insisting that \u201cwomen\u201d be included in public health messages about the issue. This is nothing but political virtue-signaling. If you\u2019re a man, you know which parts you have. You know that you ought to be screened. Nobody is made any safer by dragging far-left gender ideology into simple medical reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard about this, I thought it must be satire. When I discovered it was real, I was appalled, but I still thought it must be a one-time thing from some nutty activist. But it turns out it\u2019s the latest bit of pandering to a bunch of far-left activists who believe that a <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38052\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-9TK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38055,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38052\/revisions\/38055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}