Posted on 01/03/2025 4:49:19 AM PST by MtnClimber
(Trigger Warning: The following essay addresses topics in a blunt and candid way that may make snowflakes cry.)
The Democrat party mantra is that transgenderism is real. “Trans women are women! Trans men are men!” Denying that “lived” experience is a form of genocide. Hogwash. Both expert anecdotes and large-scale research establish that so-called transgenderism is either a mental disorder or, even worse, left-wing parents virtue-signaling through their children.
The following meme, presumably an authentic screenshot of a post on X/Twitter, appeared on a small, private Facebook group, of which this writer is a member. It contains many conservatives and a few lunatics from the left-wing fringe.

The lunatics of the left-wing fringe will claim that lefties are more likely to seek out psychiatric help and conservatives are more likely to “cowboy up” and keep their unhealthy feelings bottled inside. They will also point out that this is anecdotal evidence and, therefore, useless. (They have a way of rationalizing everything in a way that ends up being irrational.)
This writer begs to differ. Every participant in every study in any peer-reviewed medical or psychiatric journal is a walking anecdote. If a researcher piles up thousands of such anecdotes and dissects them correctly, applying proper statistical analysis, no one can argue with them. They become “the science.”
Here’s more anecdotal evidence: this writer’s sister is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is board-certified, with a DEA license and 35 years of experience. Not only can she counsel patients, but she may also prescribe anything she feels that they need, including narcotics. Her findings over those 35 years are pretty much identical to those of “Mad Johnny.”
In fact, she says the LGBTQ community is loaded with mental illnesses, including personality disorders (PDs) such as narcissistic, sociopathic, Machiavellian, and dissociative...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

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