I am perplexed at the sudden mention of young children brainwashed into seeing themselves as the wrong gender. We have not been talking about this, and it plays no visible part in the sudden explosion of affirmation pressure.
Medical professionals have been cowed by the activists; if a young girl wants to believe she's trans and that goi…
I am perplexed at the sudden mention of young children brainwashed into seeing themselves as the wrong gender. We have not been talking about this, and it plays no visible part in the sudden explosion of affirmation pressure.
Medical professionals have been cowed by the activists; if a young girl wants to believe she's trans and that going under the knife will give her fulfillment, a counselor has to reaffirm her delusion or he will *lose his job.* You know this.
The reason a 13yo girl can be "deeply convinced" that she is trans is because she is not yet capable of thinking for herself. Her attitudes are compulsively conforming and when all of her friends are telling her the same thing, why, it must be so. It isn't until age 15 or so that intellectual independence begins for most people. If it ever does.
I think this fad will pass because fads always do. It may leave some residual damage to our language and may even lead to some minor social progress but it is not going to take too many stories of deprogrammed and mutilated children to trigger some cultural revulsion.
And the more people see of the Stephanies, the faster it will happen.
There is also the inadequacy of reassignment; a lot of "trans women" look, frankly, scary, and "trans men" are sexually nonfunctional, however convincing they may look with thickened facial bones and beards. If we survive the next few decades, which I doubt, it may be possible to literally convert between the sexes easily and reliably, but what we have not reached that point and what we call reassignment is little better than surgical caricaturing.
"I am perplexed at the sudden mention of young children brainwashed into seeing themselves as the wrong gender. We have not been talking about this, and it plays no visible part in the sudden explosion of affirmation pressure."
😅No, *you* have not been talking about this, which I think is the problem. So many people, when they talk about trans people are only really talking about trans women. And when they're talking about trans women, they're only *really* talking about the fifty-year-old men with AGP trying to bully their way into female spaces.
These people are out there, of course, I've pointed them out repeatedly. But they only represent a segment of the trans "community".
Just as important to consider are trans men. Because any policies designed for trans women will apply equally to trans men, who represent a larger slice of the community than any other group, especially amongst young people.
So, for example, if you want trans women to use men's bathrooms, you have to also make trans men use women's bathrooms. And given that trans men, in many cases, look, as you say indistinguishable from men, you now have people with beards, presenting completely as men, walking into women's bathrooms. This is the entire reasons why I think bathrooms (and bathrooms alone) should be (and already are) segregated by gender rather than sex.
It's important to consider people who genuinely have gender dysphoria. Who felt this incongruence from an early age. I'm told over and over again that these people represent a tiny proportion of trans people, but never with even a tiny bit of evidence. And regardless of their proportion, in the total human population, there are likely millions of them out there. People who have undergone complete gender reassignment surgery, people who are visually indistinguishable from the sex they've transitioned into, what do we do with these people? Are they just attention seekers? Perverts who were so committed to getting into women's spaces that they had their penises cut off in their teens?
When I'm talking about trans people, I'm trying to talk about *all* of these groups, not just the weird old men in dresses. I don't know Stephanie's story. I don't know what she's like away from her nasty little internet persona. But I'm not going to let her nastiness become the lens through which I view all trans issues. And my concern is, the more people see of the Stephanies, the less willing they'll be to nuance their views to include the many other people who are nothing like her.
Yes, I'm just as concerned as you are about the perverts and the surgeons preforming mastectomies on children. I'm just as eager for psychologists to spend time diagnosing they patients and trying to find solutions that don't involve life-long hormones and irreversible surgery and to not have this mislabelled as "conversion therapy." I'm just as certain that regardless of any of this, there are instances where single-sex spaces need to be for single sexes, not genders.
But none of this has anything to do with the inadequacy of reassignment surgery. That's just personal distaste for what these people are doing. Adults can do whatever they want to their bodies. As long as they're mentally competent to make the decision. And the decision on whether they *are* mentally competent can't be based on, "well I think it's weird/gross" or "'normal' people don't do that."
I am perplexed at the sudden mention of young children brainwashed into seeing themselves as the wrong gender. We have not been talking about this, and it plays no visible part in the sudden explosion of affirmation pressure.
Medical professionals have been cowed by the activists; if a young girl wants to believe she's trans and that going under the knife will give her fulfillment, a counselor has to reaffirm her delusion or he will *lose his job.* You know this.
The reason a 13yo girl can be "deeply convinced" that she is trans is because she is not yet capable of thinking for herself. Her attitudes are compulsively conforming and when all of her friends are telling her the same thing, why, it must be so. It isn't until age 15 or so that intellectual independence begins for most people. If it ever does.
I think this fad will pass because fads always do. It may leave some residual damage to our language and may even lead to some minor social progress but it is not going to take too many stories of deprogrammed and mutilated children to trigger some cultural revulsion.
And the more people see of the Stephanies, the faster it will happen.
There is also the inadequacy of reassignment; a lot of "trans women" look, frankly, scary, and "trans men" are sexually nonfunctional, however convincing they may look with thickened facial bones and beards. If we survive the next few decades, which I doubt, it may be possible to literally convert between the sexes easily and reliably, but what we have not reached that point and what we call reassignment is little better than surgical caricaturing.
"I am perplexed at the sudden mention of young children brainwashed into seeing themselves as the wrong gender. We have not been talking about this, and it plays no visible part in the sudden explosion of affirmation pressure."
😅No, *you* have not been talking about this, which I think is the problem. So many people, when they talk about trans people are only really talking about trans women. And when they're talking about trans women, they're only *really* talking about the fifty-year-old men with AGP trying to bully their way into female spaces.
These people are out there, of course, I've pointed them out repeatedly. But they only represent a segment of the trans "community".
Just as important to consider are trans men. Because any policies designed for trans women will apply equally to trans men, who represent a larger slice of the community than any other group, especially amongst young people.
So, for example, if you want trans women to use men's bathrooms, you have to also make trans men use women's bathrooms. And given that trans men, in many cases, look, as you say indistinguishable from men, you now have people with beards, presenting completely as men, walking into women's bathrooms. This is the entire reasons why I think bathrooms (and bathrooms alone) should be (and already are) segregated by gender rather than sex.
It's important to consider people who genuinely have gender dysphoria. Who felt this incongruence from an early age. I'm told over and over again that these people represent a tiny proportion of trans people, but never with even a tiny bit of evidence. And regardless of their proportion, in the total human population, there are likely millions of them out there. People who have undergone complete gender reassignment surgery, people who are visually indistinguishable from the sex they've transitioned into, what do we do with these people? Are they just attention seekers? Perverts who were so committed to getting into women's spaces that they had their penises cut off in their teens?
When I'm talking about trans people, I'm trying to talk about *all* of these groups, not just the weird old men in dresses. I don't know Stephanie's story. I don't know what she's like away from her nasty little internet persona. But I'm not going to let her nastiness become the lens through which I view all trans issues. And my concern is, the more people see of the Stephanies, the less willing they'll be to nuance their views to include the many other people who are nothing like her.
Yes, I'm just as concerned as you are about the perverts and the surgeons preforming mastectomies on children. I'm just as eager for psychologists to spend time diagnosing they patients and trying to find solutions that don't involve life-long hormones and irreversible surgery and to not have this mislabelled as "conversion therapy." I'm just as certain that regardless of any of this, there are instances where single-sex spaces need to be for single sexes, not genders.
But none of this has anything to do with the inadequacy of reassignment surgery. That's just personal distaste for what these people are doing. Adults can do whatever they want to their bodies. As long as they're mentally competent to make the decision. And the decision on whether they *are* mentally competent can't be based on, "well I think it's weird/gross" or "'normal' people don't do that."