Posted on 12/07/2022 8:55:20 AM PST by Starman417
I was about 15 the first time I fell in love. It wasn’t until 25 years later, that I finally got married. It wasn’t that I hadn’t tried to get married before, because I had. I asked someone to marry me when I was 17. She said no. I asked 3 more girls over the next decade, same result! The funny thing is, in each of those torpedoed proposals, the girl was right. It would have been a disaster. Sure, I was in love, but it’s clear to me today that things would never have worked out.
Every one of those relationships and others involved a roller coaster of emotions. The heart-pounding that’s associated with anticipation or the satisfaction of landing that first date or the joy of that first kiss or the awkwardness of rejection or the heartache of a breakup.
Indeed, my hormones were racing ahead of me much of the time and once caused me to do something so out of character that I cringe about it today. To my great shame, I once obliquely threatened to kill a man because my girlfriend lied and claimed he’d raped her. By the grace of God, I discovered the truth long before anything terrible happened, but it’s a demonstration of how hormones and emotions can cause some of us to do things that we might later regret.
Most of this heart-driven chaos happened when I was ostensibly an adult. Part of the reason I’m convinced that things would never have worked out with those other girls was that I had zero idea of what the hell I wanted to do in my life. Not in college. Not in the Army. Not even as an entrepreneur. I was all over the map, from managing at a superstore to bartending to moving boxes in a warehouse; I was a living embodiment of what today they call ADHD or what we called hyperactive when I was a kid.
Eventually, I smartened up and decided to jump, and thankfully the greatest woman I know was there to catch me when I did. But here’s the thing… it took me, a relatively average guy, almost four decades to make what is arguably the most important decision in my life. I had to go through the chaos of life’s ups and downs, its light and shadows before I figured out what I wanted. I had to go through chaos as it relates to my professional life, my friends, with the things I did for leisure and distraction and even faith before I figured things out. And even when I was finally ready to jump, I always knew in the back of my mind there was an escape hatch… If things somehow went sideways I could always get a divorce and start again.
One thing that was clear however, during all of this chaos that life throws at you, was that I was 100% straight. Never was there a single moment when I thought I might not be. I see a beautiful woman and there’s a physiological reaction that simply doesn’t happen when I see dudes. I can’t imagine what would have been going on in my head if I hadn’t had that anchor.
All of this to say, I was a mess at 25, nevermind at 15, or 12 or 17… I wasn’t ready to make what is supposed to be a lifelong commitment about who I wanted to be with, even though I was 100% certain about the sex to which was attracted and there was an escape hatch available if I blew it.
But in America today there are those who think that children are not only able to make life changing decisions, they are able to make body altering decisions from which there is no return.
Youth is a time of extraordinary angst. Not only are children being introduced to people and influences beyond their families, they’re learning real world application of concepts that are fundamental to the core of our society such as responsibility, choices and consequences as well things as varied as private property, cooperation, risk / reward and privacy. All of this while trying to how to learn to read, write and do multiplication as well as make the varsity team, get a learner’s permit and taking a phalanx of college prep classes.
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I'm not saying that they can be deprogrammed. They might be too far gone for that. But they are as equipped to make a life-long decision for a child as a completely sedated maniac in an asylum.
The law should step in, as should the medical profession. But the law is scared of the Left and the doctors have joined the indoctrinated mob.
“I asked someone to marry me when I was 17.”
I got him beat. I used to ask a girl I carpooled with to school to marry me when I was 5. Every day. No luck though :(
I swear that when this whole ‘transgender’ movement started I thought it was a prank from someone to try to demonstrate how crazy liberals have become.
Who knew they would embrace it 100%
The Agenda: Sex changes for children will be tied to eugenics and done without parental notification. That’s the ticket!
“I swear that when this whole ‘transgender’ movement started I thought it was a prank from some one to try to demonstrate of lunatic liberals have become.”
Might’ve started off that way, and then the left embraced it.
I figured they would be using “children’s rights” as a pretext to sexually abuse children. I just didn’t know it would take this particular form.
Those backing the transgender slice and dice movement are the same ones who were against circumcision of baby boys just fifteen years ago.
One is that the medical establishment is filled at the top with people who have impeccable academic credentials, a thousand publications, and not one lick of sense or principle.
And two, they are almost supernaturally greedy. They can believe that anything is in the best interest of the patient, even if it kills him, PROVIDED it is profitable.
A foreshadowing of this happened in the early 1990s with surgery for morbid obesity.
The reasons that it is still around are 1.) that it is profitable and 2.) there are occasional success stories.
With child mutilation for gender 'reassignment' on the other hand, it is an abomination rather than just crass sinful profiteering and bad medicine like morbid obesity surgery. And there are no success stories associated with it.
Both instances show what shameless liars are the doctors and their helpers. And to witness how they rationalize what they are doing is just breathtaking.
"A foreshadowing of this happened in the early 1990s with surgery for morbid obesity."
And the only thing that put the brakes on banding everyone carrying an extra 30lbs were the lawsuits.
And now the lawsuits by detransitioners will have the exact same effect.
"Now that Camille is in a better place mentally, she realizes her surgery was a mistake. So, two and a half years later, she’s suing her social worker, therapist, and the gender clinics they work for — Brave Space Oregon and Quest Center for Integrative Health — seeking up to $850,000 in damages.She got a referral to a major gender clinic in Oregon, where she talked to doctors via Zoom twice — once in May and once in July, each time for about an hour. And that was all it took. She said she never saw anyone in person before she had her breasts removed on Aug. 28. (Brave Space Oregon and Quest Center for Integrative Health did not respond to requests for comment.)"
“I swear that when this whole ‘transgender’ movement started I thought it was a prank from someone to try to demonstrate how crazy liberals have become.
Who knew they would embrace it 100%”
Any personal deviancy will sooner or later become accepted if it is perceived by the majority to cause no harm to others and/or society in general.
Thus the 64k question is, will the acceptance of these LGBTQRSTUV delusions cause a society to become weaker in comparison to a more reality based society?
So, who’s going to win out long term, the delusional west, the Muslims, the Chinese, the Russians? Or will these other society succumb to the perversions of the west?
What do you think?
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