When did the idea that biological sex and gender are two different things. I'm old enough to have spent most of my life where that was not a concept.
There have always been effeminate men and masculine women, having nothing to do with sexuality. They were still men and women. It might be implicit that their thought processes aligned with …
When did the idea that biological sex and gender are two different things. I'm old enough to have spent most of my life where that was not a concept.
There have always been effeminate men and masculine women, having nothing to do with sexuality. They were still men and women. It might be implicit that their thought processes aligned with those masculine/feminine traits but that changing gender was not a thing.
One man in 30,000, one woman in 100,000 is gender dysphoric. That would be about 5000 people nationwide. OK, giving some wiggle because the scientific criteria are very strict, let's allow the number to be ten times that. Around 50,000.
Right now the activists are claiming that something like 500-1000 the scientific number are "trans."
NUH-uh.
And they bare their teeth and snarl in rage at any suggestion that this is a medical condition. They assert that "trans" is part of normal human variation, like homosexuality and lefthandedness. Despite the fact that many dysphoric people feel excruciatingly uncomfortable in their own skins and that a lot of men (trigger alert) yearn to be castrated, the thought of which for other men, even the toughest men, evokes horror.
This is as much a disorder as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, those who want healthy limbs amputated. The latter is fortunately less common, but some of these people will lay a leg across the tracks before an oncoming train.
We should be compassionate and understanding as we can for those who are suffering from GID, but for godssake, we should not be encouraging people who don't have it ... to believe they do.
I'm left to wonder what the honest number would be without an internet. I often use the phrase "in real life" because I am more and more inclined to think it spreads ideas that would never spread without it. The things that metastasize it like a cancer are the desire to be seen as "a good person" through virtue signaling and wanting to be in the right clique like a bunch of high schoolers.
When did the idea that biological sex and gender are two different things. I'm old enough to have spent most of my life where that was not a concept.
There have always been effeminate men and masculine women, having nothing to do with sexuality. They were still men and women. It might be implicit that their thought processes aligned with those masculine/feminine traits but that changing gender was not a thing.
One man in 30,000, one woman in 100,000 is gender dysphoric. That would be about 5000 people nationwide. OK, giving some wiggle because the scientific criteria are very strict, let's allow the number to be ten times that. Around 50,000.
Right now the activists are claiming that something like 500-1000 the scientific number are "trans."
NUH-uh.
And they bare their teeth and snarl in rage at any suggestion that this is a medical condition. They assert that "trans" is part of normal human variation, like homosexuality and lefthandedness. Despite the fact that many dysphoric people feel excruciatingly uncomfortable in their own skins and that a lot of men (trigger alert) yearn to be castrated, the thought of which for other men, even the toughest men, evokes horror.
This is as much a disorder as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, those who want healthy limbs amputated. The latter is fortunately less common, but some of these people will lay a leg across the tracks before an oncoming train.
We should be compassionate and understanding as we can for those who are suffering from GID, but for godssake, we should not be encouraging people who don't have it ... to believe they do.
I'm left to wonder what the honest number would be without an internet. I often use the phrase "in real life" because I am more and more inclined to think it spreads ideas that would never spread without it. The things that metastasize it like a cancer are the desire to be seen as "a good person" through virtue signaling and wanting to be in the right clique like a bunch of high schoolers.