The conclusion of the CC is a red flag that it's not being as academically rigrorous as it might be. It concludes that anxiety & depression might actually be signs of gender dysphoria. Except those are the two most common mental illnesses out there, and GD only got to be 'a thing' just a few years ago, really - about 10-12.
The conclusion of the CC is a red flag that it's not being as academically rigrorous as it might be. It concludes that anxiety & depression might actually be signs of gender dysphoria. Except those are the two most common mental illnesses out there, and GD only got to be 'a thing' just a few years ago, really - about 10-12.
There's a growing recognition in some circles that some so-called GD might actually be distractions from underlying, pre-existing psychological problems. That the rise of 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' in young people (supported by a highly-peer-reviewed research paper by Lisa Littman, controversial only for trans-ideologues) may actually be peer group- and social media-influenced. That suicidality might not be due to GD but to these underlying problems. Given that suicide rates have risen *dramatically* in the last *twenty years*, before the rise of the trans movement, while suicidality in transfolk may be genuine, it may not necessarily be related to GD.
Feffy sounds like he *might* be one who is 'genuinely' trans (not socially induced) since he feels he was this way since he was four or five, but we can't even take *that* at face value anymore, because he could have been induced to believe that by trans ideologues marketing a 'solution' for him. Here's the problem critical theory set have created for themselves--they've blurred language and meaning so much, we can't trust anyone anymore, not even academics, whose own standards have slipped in service to political ideologues, and certainly not the self-diagnoses of psychologically disturbed individuals.
Millennials and Gen Z have been shown by many studies to be one of the most anxious, stressed, and depressed generations ever, even more than Boomers living through enforced draft and the Vietnam War, not to mention all the other turmoil of the '60s and early '70s, and GD is being marketed to them as a fix for all their problems. One wonders if the high suicide rate among transfolk is partly because transitioning didn't fix all their problems.
And given, how un-self-aware this ironically highly narcissistic movement is, I'm not terribly inclined to believe anymore anyone who claims they 'always' felt this way unless others around them could confirm this.
I think the 'genuine' trans are the ones who really did feel this way from a very early age, and I'm reading a quite convincing personal history of it right now, The Transsexual Scientist, by Dana Bevan, a psychologist and transwoman who described growing up in the Forties feeling this way. So, the part of the CC article that sounds worth exploring is the fact that gender and sex may be on a spectrum (not that hard a concept to consider), and I'm with you that we should just be who we are and love who we do. But the queer theory, which embraces some trans issues, has muddied the labels and language so much they don't make sense, and they make gender and sex way more complicated, frankly, than it is.
Whether GD is real or induced also isn't the final point, but given how ugly the movement has become, it's time for some real pushback and forcing discussions these people don't want to have, because they're afraid of what it means to their self-image.
Here's an article I shared on Facebook this weekend about The New Homophobia in the LGBTQ movement.
The conclusion of the CC is a red flag that it's not being as academically rigrorous as it might be. It concludes that anxiety & depression might actually be signs of gender dysphoria. Except those are the two most common mental illnesses out there, and GD only got to be 'a thing' just a few years ago, really - about 10-12.
There's a growing recognition in some circles that some so-called GD might actually be distractions from underlying, pre-existing psychological problems. That the rise of 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' in young people (supported by a highly-peer-reviewed research paper by Lisa Littman, controversial only for trans-ideologues) may actually be peer group- and social media-influenced. That suicidality might not be due to GD but to these underlying problems. Given that suicide rates have risen *dramatically* in the last *twenty years*, before the rise of the trans movement, while suicidality in transfolk may be genuine, it may not necessarily be related to GD.
Feffy sounds like he *might* be one who is 'genuinely' trans (not socially induced) since he feels he was this way since he was four or five, but we can't even take *that* at face value anymore, because he could have been induced to believe that by trans ideologues marketing a 'solution' for him. Here's the problem critical theory set have created for themselves--they've blurred language and meaning so much, we can't trust anyone anymore, not even academics, whose own standards have slipped in service to political ideologues, and certainly not the self-diagnoses of psychologically disturbed individuals.
Millennials and Gen Z have been shown by many studies to be one of the most anxious, stressed, and depressed generations ever, even more than Boomers living through enforced draft and the Vietnam War, not to mention all the other turmoil of the '60s and early '70s, and GD is being marketed to them as a fix for all their problems. One wonders if the high suicide rate among transfolk is partly because transitioning didn't fix all their problems.
And given, how un-self-aware this ironically highly narcissistic movement is, I'm not terribly inclined to believe anymore anyone who claims they 'always' felt this way unless others around them could confirm this.
I think the 'genuine' trans are the ones who really did feel this way from a very early age, and I'm reading a quite convincing personal history of it right now, The Transsexual Scientist, by Dana Bevan, a psychologist and transwoman who described growing up in the Forties feeling this way. So, the part of the CC article that sounds worth exploring is the fact that gender and sex may be on a spectrum (not that hard a concept to consider), and I'm with you that we should just be who we are and love who we do. But the queer theory, which embraces some trans issues, has muddied the labels and language so much they don't make sense, and they make gender and sex way more complicated, frankly, than it is.
Whether GD is real or induced also isn't the final point, but given how ugly the movement has become, it's time for some real pushback and forcing discussions these people don't want to have, because they're afraid of what it means to their self-image.
Here's an article I shared on Facebook this weekend about The New Homophobia in the LGBTQ movement.
https://www.newsweek.com/new-homophobia-opinion-1698969?fbclid=IwAR28pgTqWatkFDn-SQ3GwuUSbPqzeCNtBRdQGHW0yBodQZ_g69GhH9fTBZE