Is dying your hair color or getting cosmetic surgery also mental illness?
mental illness is thinking comparing dying hair to having your genitals removed is an apt comparison.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
Another stooge thread, fueled by ignorance and hate. Straw men tell you who to hate. You don't need to listen to them.
It's an old game. Divide and conquer. Goes back thousands of years, keeps the ruling elites in power, and stops people from working together to solve problems.
This is it. Wake up sheeple. Look at how easily manipulated we are. How easy it is to turn our attention away from what matters. From power. From justice. From fairness. From working together for freedom and a secure future. For a great society.
Another stooge thread, fueled by ignorance and hate. Straw men tell you who to hate. You don't need to listen to them.
It's an old game. Divide and conquer. Goes back thousands of years, keeps the ruling elites in power, and stops people from working together to solve problems.
This is it. Wake up sheeple. Look at how easily manipulated we are. How easy it is to turn our attention away from what matters. From power. From justice. From fairness. From working together for freedom and a secure future. For a great society.
I really like your use of "Wake up, sheeple!" But you should use the exclamation point at the end.
Anyway, good job! Even without the exclamation point, your use of the phrase clearly identifies you as someone to be taken seriously.
yes okay, happy to revise that part. but I'd like to see a complete ban on under 18s being able to have this kind of surgery. and then a 3-year process where you have to meet various doctors and psychologists and whatnot, so you really understand what you are letting yourself in for, so the earliest you would be able to have your genitals chopped off would be 21.
I'm for this but I must ask - where is this intense vigor from the right when it comes to gun safety? An issue which you know actually gets tens of thousands of innocent Americans killed.
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mental illness is thinking comparing dying hair to having your genitals removed is an apt comparison.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
I agree in principle, not my body not my choice. I worry about the maturity of some of these young folks when making such a big decision, but ultimately they have agency over their own bodies and will have to live with any net negative consequences.
We're sterilizing our children because getting a sex change went from a low to high status endeavor, by and large. The leftist impulse to seek out victims to defend and subvert civil society has brought us to this point.
These people still have as high of rates of depression and self-deletion as they did before transitioning. Defying nature is clearly not the answer.
I think once people stop and think about the gruesome, Mengelian procedures inflicted on these people, and all of the horrible side effects, the support to expand access to these procedures will wain.
This is so. When I first entered the work force, being trans was something that could cost one a job. Some trans people had to use the courts in order to maintain employment and faced costly legal battles not at all related to workforce performance.
Now, we've flipped it 180 - being trans makes it EASIER to obtain employment, get promotions, etc. A trans individual will get hired over one who maintains their birth gender in most cases if they have equal qualificiations. In the case of M to F, its much easier to have higher qualifications for the first job - sport is now a cakewalk for you, performing at the level of an average female is easy for most mtof and most men. Instead of having to bust your butt for years for a spot on an ncaa team, you just show up to practice most days. If you wanted to do something else like starcraft or chess, you'd play at the level expected of a male but have competition level of women.
One thing I've seen a lot of is trans or homosexual romance becoming a book tag. Books with these tags get elevated over better written works for beginning authors. Writing gay or trans characters (esp trans) may get your works published as a new author and make the difference between writing as a career or working for a click bait rag.
We are biologically evolved as a species to reproduce though. Eventually these trends will settle at a certain level or we'll be replaced by a society that doesn't promote them. Perhaps this is what happens to a society with too much income inequality and where it takes a high effort to just get by. In such a society, if there is an advantage to a certain sexuality, our evolutionary drive will cause us to favor it.
We're sterilizing our children because getting a sex change went from a low to high status endeavor, by and large. The leftist impulse to seek out victims to defend and subvert civil society has brought us to this point.
These people still have as high of rates of depression and self-deletion as they did before transitioning. Defying nature is clearly not the answer.
I think once people stop and think about the gruesome, Mengelian procedures inflicted on these people, and all of the horrible side effects, the support to expand access to these procedures will wain.
This is so. When I first entered the work force, being trans was something that could cost one a job. Some trans people had to use the courts in order to maintain employment and faced costly legal battles not at all related to workforce performance.
Now, we've flipped it 180 - being trans makes it EASIER to obtain employment, get promotions, etc. A trans individual will get hired over one who maintains their birth gender in most cases if they have equal qualificiations. In the case of M to F, its much easier to have higher qualifications for the first job - sport is now a cakewalk for you, performing at the level of an average female is easy for most mtof and most men. Instead of having to bust your butt for years for a spot on an ncaa team, you just show up to practice most days. If you wanted to do something else like starcraft or chess, you'd play at the level expected of a male but have competition level of women.
One thing I've seen a lot of is trans or homosexual romance becoming a book tag. Books with these tags get elevated over better written works for beginning authors. Writing gay or trans characters (esp trans) may get your works published as a new author and make the difference between writing as a career or working for a click bait rag.
We are biologically evolved as a species to reproduce though. Eventually these trends will settle at a certain level or we'll be replaced by a society that doesn't promote them. Perhaps this is what happens to a society with too much income inequality and where it takes a high effort to just get by. In such a society, if there is an advantage to a certain sexuality, our evolutionary drive will cause us to favor it.
Trans is a huge fashion trend at the moment, which is why there is such pushback on the laissez-faire attitude towards the ideology and life-altering procedures involving it.
mental illness is thinking comparing dying hair to having your genitals removed is an apt comparison.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
I am sure there are lots of mentally ill people that go to bed with all kinds of delusional thoughts circulating in their diseased brains.
yes okay, happy to revise that part. but I'd like to see a complete ban on under 18s being able to have this kind of surgery. and then a 3-year process where you have to meet various doctors and psychologists and whatnot, so you really understand what you are letting yourself in for, so the earliest you would be able to have your genitals chopped off would be 21.
I'm for this but I must ask - where is this intense vigor from the right when it comes to gun safety? An issue which you know actually gets tens of thousands of innocent Americans killed.
If you are a typical leftist and look at who is killing people with guns, you will NOT like the answer.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
I am sure there are lots of mentally ill people that go to bed with all kinds of delusional thoughts circulating in their diseased brains.
Thank you. I’m glad this board certified doctor is here to give us his professional opinion on this matter.
I'm for this but I must ask - where is this intense vigor from the right when it comes to gun safety? An issue which you know actually gets tens of thousands of innocent Americans killed.
If you are a typical leftist and look at who is killing people with guns, you will NOT like the answer.
We’re trying to make people LESS poor, and it’s the poor people that are more prone to commit violent crime.
mental illness is thinking comparing dying hair to having your genitals removed is an apt comparison.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
You’ve described a delusion. They feel a loss for something they never had.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
You’ve described a delusion. They feel a loss for something they never had.
Their brains are built differently. You can try to work out why that bothers you so much.
They also disregard the trans person’s mental state. They want to attribute the suicide to external factors only.
I’m confused- what do you think causes that mental state? Y’all acting like trans people can just ‘go to therapy’ and suddenly they’re not trans anymore.
As silly as those crazy evangelicals that formed those awful “conversion camps” for gay men in the ‘90s. Nobody got converted, but those suicide rates sure sky-rocketed.
Stats? As for conversion, why do you think nobody ever abandoned homosexual or bisexual behavior and lived as a heterosexual? I'm not an Evangelical Christian, but I think just about every society anywhere at anytime on the Earth before well into the 20th century felt that same-sex relationships were unhealthy. Even the ancient Greeks held that gay relationships were acceptable only in a transient phase. Why do you find the evangelicals "crazy" when just about everyone felt similarly?
mental illness is thinking comparing dying hair to having your genitals removed is an apt comparison.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
And if one identifies as a worm, will you sympathize with cutting off both of his arms and legs?
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
And if one identifies as a worm, will you sympathize with cutting off both of his arms and legs?
Are we also making them hermaphroditic? Does this also include an operation to allow them to absorb oxygen directly from their skin and the removal of their bones?
Leftist states such as New York or California don’t permit anyone under the age of 18 to get a tattoo, with or without parental consent. Yet many leftists think kids as young as 12 or 13 should have the right to undergo “gender affirming” surgery even without parental consent. What’s the logic of that?
That’s completely false. You won’t find any such law and even with parental consent, 12 or 13 year olds, are not receiving gender affirming surgery. You’re just repeating far right claims without doing any of your own research.
mental illness is thinking comparing dying hair to having your genitals removed is an apt comparison.
When you’re asleep tonight, if someone broke into your home and gave you a vaginoplasty, would you be angry? Depressed? Would you want that changed and have your dick and balls back?
This is how trans people have felt their whole lives. Their brain doesn’t match their bodies. There are procedures which can help people with these conditions to more closely align their bodies to their brains. Leave it to the patient and their doctor to work out the best course of treatment.
Actually, the earliest sex-reassignment programs closed shop several decades ago after the interventions were shown to be ineffective for resolving distress. Pro-transition activists and queer theory supporters have revived these procedures on political grounds, not on the grounds of evidence. In addition, many people who "consent" to these procedures aren't fully informed about the risk of heart disease, cancer, and even death due to sepsis after major surgeries. Males who are purberty blocked early on will never experience orgasm, and many have insufficient penile tissue to create a "neovagina." In these cases, parts of the colon are used, which increases the risk of the kind of sepsis I mentioned above. A kid in the "Dutch study" used to promote transition for minors died due to this very complication.
People who don't look into this issue may assume that all attempts to ban pediatric transition are fueled by phobia, but the truth is that there is very little rigorous science to support these drastic interventions. In addition, the very concept of gender dysphoria is so vague and unfalsifiable, that nearly anybody can read themselves into it. This is very similar to the repressed memories fiasco in the 1980s, in which therapists convinced countless people (many of them young women) that they had been sadistically sexually abused but simply didn't remember it. Families were ripped apart, people went to prison, etc. Here again, we have a series of vague symptoms with no material basis viewed as incontrovertible evidence of being trans. In this case, the social harm is compounded by medical harm.
This is a culture-bound syndrome; a set of culturally-sanctioned symptoms of distress are read as evidence of a disorder. These types of syndromes tend to be more common in teenage girls and women, probably because females are more intensely "social" and empathetic than males, though most humans can feel others' symptoms. Imagine being in a hot room where somebody passes out. The chance of other people passing out goes way up. There have been outbreaks of sleeping (for years), dancing (until death), and tic-like disorders.
When all of the smoke clears, we're likely to see a lot of lawsuits. Of course, some parents and transitioners will never be able to face the pain that comes with acknowledging that they were victims of a pernicious cult-like ideology that somehow held sway over institutions meant to assuage rather than create suffering. It's horrific.
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