That's not quite fair. I could have used any number of medical websites that don't consider "gender dysphoria" a mental health issue, in and of itself, only that the lack of understanding from the community causes adjacent mental health problems. I'm not sure how my assessment of what I read is drinking the kool-aid, and your assessment, based on other things on the internet is not. I do a lot of reading and video watching, and we distill this information differently, but not without thought.
It’s because your response to all this is to repeat straightforward Democrat Party talking points. Although I tend to agree with Tulsi that most democrats don’t believe in the trans hoax, you’re repeating all the talking points of those who do. You even used modish gender ideology terms, such as “cis woman”. You haven’t once addressed or questioned the innovative nature of gender ideologies that insist that gender is fluid, that there are multiple genders etc. You tend to conflate the extremist part of trans with things we already know about - but which are wholly different things in nature and substance - things such as gender dysphoria, which by whatever definition we want to use (and I distrust the medical profession in this regard but I don’t mind your definition either because it changes the substance of the conversation not even by a decimal point) and intersex people. This is what trans ideologists do, to try conceal the radical and society-changing nature of their work.
Gender dysphoria is a tragic condition. I addressed this many times and I’ve recommended YouTube videos by sufferers of it. They transition to save themselves. They’re suffering, and it’s the only thing that helps.
They realise that there are two genders and that by transitioning they have not become the gender they want to be. This part is crucial.
When you say that “the lack of understanding from the community causes adjacent mental health problems” I agree that this is probably the case sometimes, but the fact is that there’s a lack of acceptance and understanding from the other side also, which is that they don’t accept or understand that the gender propaganda they’re selling is being recognised for what it is: revolutionary, destabilising, dishonest, unscientific rubbish, passing itself off not only as fact, but also they insist that we agree with them. So when JK Rowling and other brave feminists say
exactly what we all knew ten minutes ago, that a woman is an adult biological female, they get attacked, but nobody steps forward from the activist side to give a scientific or rational explanation as to why they’re wrong, presenting new data and evidence that shows in fact that ‘gender’ is merely a feeling, and not related to biology at all.
Josh Hawley is a right-wing extremist who hid from the attack on the Capital after he ginned them up. And I don't think those women acquitted themselves poorly.
Forget about right wing! You do this often when there’s a message you doing like. You say “that’s a right wing publication.” Kool Aid indeed, sister. Forget about what the Kool Aid newspapers and politicians tell you, watch the videos. They’re saying this stuff themselves, it’s not Josh Hawley saying it, or Matt Walsh saying it.
I find it bizarre that you think a woman sent by the democrats to testify at congress had acquitted herself well, when she says that men can become pregnant.
Or the other one, a woman who’s feeding young boys chemical castration pills “acquitted herself well”. She’s abusing children, but that’s okay? She should be in prison. The other one should be in a loony bin. What part of what they said shows that “they acquitted themselves well?”
See, this is why I would like you to listen to that piece. (First of all, that radio program is amazing. I could offer some up that are nothing political that you would surely love.) Part of their point, at the end, is that there's a rumor on the internet that kids are identifying as cats and dogs, so there is kitty litter at schools. I think I already told you this. It's so that kids have a place to pee when there's an active shoot and they are on lockdown. They're not identifying as cats or horses or astronauts. You could leave off the hyperbole, though some on the far-right here cling to it.
There is a person in the Matt Walsh film so identifies as a wolf, among many other things. Would you dismiss this just because it comes from the Wolf’s own mouth, but is brought to you by a conservative? But I agree in principle that propaganda from opponents of the trans ideology is unhelpful and harmful. If we can’t win the argument by using facts and logic, then lies are a default setting admission of defeat.
The proof for this statement is all the lies the trans activists tell, but never defend.
What I mean by "otherness" is that not every kid feels like they fit in. The great American painter, Chuck Close, was severely dyslexic, before it was diagnosed, and he said that, without art, as a kid, he'd have been lost. You won't like that comparison, and I'm not going to go down a litany, but kids need great teachers to help them find expression and their way. I honestly believe there are a lot of great teachers out there who are not imposing their ideas, so much as trying to listen to kids, in loads of different ways.
So why did you think I was upset by this? What makes you think I’m upset by kids exploring this type of otherness? I was probably the only kid in my working class school writing poetry, songs and stories under the desktop while they were rowdily chucking pens at the schoolteachers, and nobody knew what I was doing, because I felt they wouldn’t understand. I was two people, though everyone thought I was only the one they knew.
Why did you say that you “know it upsets you a lot that adults are trying to hear kids with issues, and to help normalize their feelings of "otherness," (by which I mean many things)?”
It seems so unrelated to the discussion of trans.
I'm not "shrugging at children being abused." You know me better than that. And it's not about my party, it's about my experience, and my own investigations. You see abuse, though, where I don't see it. That's a fundamental difference between us. Fine, and I don't see that changing, but don't tell me I don't care about children who are actually abused. I suppose it's like the abortion debate. For those who consider it murder, there is no conversation. I understand that.
You seem to have ignored the part about the NHS healthcare professionals being pressured into affirming kids in their gender confusion, and the part where it says that other healthcare issues were neglected once they’d decided that the child was trans. The part where a judge on appeal decided that underage kids were able to consent to these extremely abusive treatments, once a doctor had cleared it. Totally bypassing their parents.
This isn’t a concern to you? My elderly father had a condition that meant he wasn’t able to make decisions for himself and we were consulted every step of the way, from his diagnosis to what tablets he was on, to any treatments they were doing, which was proper and appreciated. Medical practitioners can hurry kids into all sorts of procedures without their parents consent, and you’re okay with this?
Is there any part of chemical castration for little boys that you disagree with? Surgical mutilation for young girls? Is any of those wrong, in your book? Why can’t they wait until the children are of an age where they can make a clearminded decision for themselves? Why do this to children?
Yes, we are a violent culture, with a long history of it, and the guns are only part of the problem. But it would cut down the body-count if we limited certain amounts of military assault-style weapons, and the access of some people to them.
I agree here on the guns, and I know that this is another right wing/left wing issue over there. You really are a tribal people. You have probably a huge silent majority in the centre that agrees on most things and can discuss politics peacefully with their friends, while voting for different candidates, but your extremes are pulling you apart, and that’s the real problem…
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