One of the best arguments that I have heard came from an interview with a therapist who said, "This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up." That sums up the problem as clearly and succinctly as possi…
One of the best arguments that I have heard came from an interview with a therapist who said, "This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up."
That sums up the problem as clearly and succinctly as possible and I continue to use that phrase when discussing the issue with people. Make the Left own up to the fact that they are pushing for irreversible medical procedures on children who are exhibiting signs of mental health problems and that is both cruel and ill-informed. It is like the lobotomy craze of the 40s and 50s, which permanently altered the brains of people who might have had a chemical imbalance or some other issue that could have been treated by therapy and /or medication. Ask them how this is different, especially since children's brains are not even fully developed until at least the early 20s?
Your comparison of the transsexual social contagion to the lobotomy craze is very interesting.
Lobotomy was a way for parents of ungovernable children to get them to behave, submit to discipline by removing all emotional affect. It was also a way to quiet adult embarrassments to prominent families--the promiscuous 20-something daughter or the homosexual adult man, the kleptomaniac, the morphine addict . . . all these scandalous black sheep . . . just insert an ice pick, scramble the frontal lobes and voila! You get a docile, passive, Good Citizen made to order.
The trans contagion is a form of Munchausen-by-proxy on a massive scale, as someone else here has pointed out. Now, rather than butchering their children into submission with lobotomy, mothers are using their children as tokens in their own vain purity spiral, demonstrating their progressiveness by encouraging any inkling of "gender dysphoria" to the point that the tokens demand surgery.
The parents are the problem in many cases. And not the problem in many others.
Some parents are completely blindsided this. Their kids were groomed online, by peers, and by teachers. In these cases, it is practically the same exact story every time. The groomers have their process perfected. Sometimes, it is even the therapists that kids are taken to for unrelated reasons!
Read the PITT substack and see the stories of parents who were the blindsided ones. It is called Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans...or something like that.
"This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up."
Actually, "we" are not telling them this, trans activists and many people in the trans treatment community are. Most other health care professionals haven't dug into the information about what is going on. Many of them are not aware that so many children are being castrated or having their breasts cut off. Most of them are not even aware that our professional associations have been captured, or what that implies.
But to address the therapist's point: Here we have patients who convince health care professionals that their bodies are wrongly created. These are extremely concrete thinkers who experience their psych issues as physical defects that need to be fixed. They presented their gender dysphoria this way before Post Modernism and trans activism became one. Now the trans activists are still adamant that their bodies have to be changed, while at the same time declaring that "gender" is entirely a thought construct, or, alternatively, "a feeling you have inside that no one else can know until you tell them your pronouns." These statements clearly state that gender dysphoria is a matter of thought and feeling. This implies to me that all treatment should be psychosocial. It is so puzzling when people show no interest in addressing and reconciling extreme contradictions in their core beliefs about who they are.
Either psychosocial treatment or none seems to be indicated when adolescents (mostly girls, naturally) declare a transsexual urge because it is being used as a way to effortlessly acquire intersectional victim status, thanks to the edifice of lies and half-truths the trans lobby has created, including the conflation of a metaphor with reality--challenging their claims regarding sex is a form of "genocide." This is a new and bizarre social status game that includes emotional blackmail: "Confirm my delusions or you will be responsible for my suicide and the suicide of others." Though as far as I know nobody has made the claim specifically, the trans lobby constantly suggests that denying the interchangeability of sex denies them existence itself. Many appear to literally believe that "If you refuse to believe I have truly become my chosen sex you deny my very existence." It's sheer madness.
This schizoid state of affairs is behind what is clearly a social contagion, a sort of mass hysteria (or fad, if you want to downplay the seriousness of the thing).
The "genocide" will result in reality if children are sterilized in large numbers.
People who have narcissistic personality disorder also fabricate false selves, which they then demand that other people "affirm" as real. In the case of narcissists, they do not have much sense of self, so when others see through the fakery the narcissists reportedly feel like they are being annihilated. Their response is to counterattack the person who has seen them more accurately than they want to be seen, and the narcissists think of this as justified self-defense.
So much of the trans movement is about narcissism. I think there are people who are confused about their sex who aren't narcissistic, but the trans activists we see on social media and news reports mostly appear to be narcissists.
"when others see through the fakery the narcissists reportedly feel like they are being annihilated. Their response is to counterattack the person who has seen them more accurately than they want to be seen, and the narcissists think of this as justified self-defense."
Trans lobby rhetoric can be described in precisely this way.
One of the best arguments that I have heard came from an interview with a therapist who said, "This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up."
That sums up the problem as clearly and succinctly as possible and I continue to use that phrase when discussing the issue with people. Make the Left own up to the fact that they are pushing for irreversible medical procedures on children who are exhibiting signs of mental health problems and that is both cruel and ill-informed. It is like the lobotomy craze of the 40s and 50s, which permanently altered the brains of people who might have had a chemical imbalance or some other issue that could have been treated by therapy and /or medication. Ask them how this is different, especially since children's brains are not even fully developed until at least the early 20s?
Your comparison of the transsexual social contagion to the lobotomy craze is very interesting.
Lobotomy was a way for parents of ungovernable children to get them to behave, submit to discipline by removing all emotional affect. It was also a way to quiet adult embarrassments to prominent families--the promiscuous 20-something daughter or the homosexual adult man, the kleptomaniac, the morphine addict . . . all these scandalous black sheep . . . just insert an ice pick, scramble the frontal lobes and voila! You get a docile, passive, Good Citizen made to order.
The trans contagion is a form of Munchausen-by-proxy on a massive scale, as someone else here has pointed out. Now, rather than butchering their children into submission with lobotomy, mothers are using their children as tokens in their own vain purity spiral, demonstrating their progressiveness by encouraging any inkling of "gender dysphoria" to the point that the tokens demand surgery.
The parents are the problem in many cases. And not the problem in many others.
Some parents are completely blindsided this. Their kids were groomed online, by peers, and by teachers. In these cases, it is practically the same exact story every time. The groomers have their process perfected. Sometimes, it is even the therapists that kids are taken to for unrelated reasons!
Read the PITT substack and see the stories of parents who were the blindsided ones. It is called Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans...or something like that.
That is an excellent substack...often times heartbreaking to read.
Agreed.
"This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up."
Actually, "we" are not telling them this, trans activists and many people in the trans treatment community are. Most other health care professionals haven't dug into the information about what is going on. Many of them are not aware that so many children are being castrated or having their breasts cut off. Most of them are not even aware that our professional associations have been captured, or what that implies.
But to address the therapist's point: Here we have patients who convince health care professionals that their bodies are wrongly created. These are extremely concrete thinkers who experience their psych issues as physical defects that need to be fixed. They presented their gender dysphoria this way before Post Modernism and trans activism became one. Now the trans activists are still adamant that their bodies have to be changed, while at the same time declaring that "gender" is entirely a thought construct, or, alternatively, "a feeling you have inside that no one else can know until you tell them your pronouns." These statements clearly state that gender dysphoria is a matter of thought and feeling. This implies to me that all treatment should be psychosocial. It is so puzzling when people show no interest in addressing and reconciling extreme contradictions in their core beliefs about who they are.
Either psychosocial treatment or none seems to be indicated when adolescents (mostly girls, naturally) declare a transsexual urge because it is being used as a way to effortlessly acquire intersectional victim status, thanks to the edifice of lies and half-truths the trans lobby has created, including the conflation of a metaphor with reality--challenging their claims regarding sex is a form of "genocide." This is a new and bizarre social status game that includes emotional blackmail: "Confirm my delusions or you will be responsible for my suicide and the suicide of others." Though as far as I know nobody has made the claim specifically, the trans lobby constantly suggests that denying the interchangeability of sex denies them existence itself. Many appear to literally believe that "If you refuse to believe I have truly become my chosen sex you deny my very existence." It's sheer madness.
This schizoid state of affairs is behind what is clearly a social contagion, a sort of mass hysteria (or fad, if you want to downplay the seriousness of the thing).
The "genocide" will result in reality if children are sterilized in large numbers.
People who have narcissistic personality disorder also fabricate false selves, which they then demand that other people "affirm" as real. In the case of narcissists, they do not have much sense of self, so when others see through the fakery the narcissists reportedly feel like they are being annihilated. Their response is to counterattack the person who has seen them more accurately than they want to be seen, and the narcissists think of this as justified self-defense.
So much of the trans movement is about narcissism. I think there are people who are confused about their sex who aren't narcissistic, but the trans activists we see on social media and news reports mostly appear to be narcissists.
"when others see through the fakery the narcissists reportedly feel like they are being annihilated. Their response is to counterattack the person who has seen them more accurately than they want to be seen, and the narcissists think of this as justified self-defense."
Trans lobby rhetoric can be described in precisely this way.
Yes. :-(