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My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy
New York Times ^ | November 24, 2018 | Andrea Long Chu

Posted on 11/24/2018 4:56:51 PM PST by EdnaMode

Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it.

I like to say that being trans is the second-worst thing that ever happened to me. (The worst was being born a boy.) Dysphoria is notoriously difficult to describe to those who haven’t experienced it, like a flavor. Its official definition — the distress some transgender people feel at the incongruence between the gender they express and the gender they’ve been socially assigned — does little justice to the feeling.

But in my experience, at least: Dysphoria feels like being unable to get warm, no matter how many layers you put on. It feels like hunger without appetite. It feels like getting on an airplane to fly home, only to realize mid-flight that this is it: You’re going to spend the rest of your life on an airplane. It feels like grieving. It feels like having nothing to grieve.

Many conservatives call this crazy. A popular right-wing narrative holds that gender dysphoria is a clinical delusion; hence, feeding that delusion with hormones and surgeries constitutes a violation of medical ethics. Just ask the Heritage Foundation fellow Ryan T. Anderson, whose book “When Harry Became Sally” draws heavily on the work of Dr. Paul McHugh, the psychiatrist who shut down the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins in 1979 on the grounds that trans-affirmative care meant “cooperating with a mental illness.”

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To: EdnaMode

Well, I think that the next time I’m in a ‘discussion’ with some liberal about transsexualism and what it is and what it is not, I’m going to now have this as Exhibit 1 in making my case that it’s just a mental disease.....


101 posted on 11/24/2018 7:25:36 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: EdnaMode
"Take it from my father, a pediatrician, who once remarked to me that he would no sooner prescribe puberty blockers to a gender dysphoric child than he would give a distemper shot to someone who believed she was a dog."

Your father had common sense, Andy.

102 posted on 11/24/2018 7:26:09 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: EdnaMode
Obviously....


103 posted on 11/24/2018 7:26:43 PM PST by caww
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To: EdnaMode

lots of people in medical field seem to not stand by their oath of first do no harm. will be a very sad day for many when they face God.


104 posted on 11/24/2018 7:27:16 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Polyxene

He’s a lesbian. How’s that for nutty delusions???


105 posted on 11/24/2018 7:27:23 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: EdnaMode
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina.

No, you will not.

No more then my gluing some fins to my feet make my feet webbed.

You are trading reality for illusion. I am sorry that you are so unhappy that mutilating yourself seems like a reasonable thing to do.

I am angry that people are exploiting your delusion for personal gain.

I wish you would listen to your body. It is going to reject what you are trying to do to it with every cell it has.

106 posted on 11/24/2018 7:33:56 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: SERKIT
That won't help either....


107 posted on 11/24/2018 7:34:32 PM PST by caww
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To: piroque
sexual perversion......


108 posted on 11/24/2018 7:45:20 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

Oh No,,,

As Uncle Milty would Say,
“Makeup!”


109 posted on 11/24/2018 7:46:59 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: EdnaMode
Can we ask him to make his impending suicide exceptionally grotesque and bloody, we're talking spurting, here, and to make sure he records it with an automatic post on LiveLeak, in focus??

It can be used as an object lesson on the value of the IQ Bell Curve, and why one really should consider ALL the ramifications of gender re-assignment. It will be his ONLY contribution to civilization.

110 posted on 11/24/2018 7:49:00 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: EdnaMode

What is sadder is that their story, for the most part, never has a happy ending.


111 posted on 11/24/2018 7:49:41 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I want to do it anyway ... is that OK?

Absolutely. It's called "freedom."

And we're free to call you a freak. And to question your sanity. And to refuse to participate in your delusion. That's called "freedom" too.

112 posted on 11/24/2018 8:01:01 PM PST by IronJack
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Holy mackerel! Obviously he’s already spent a fortune on ugly lessons.


113 posted on 11/24/2018 8:03:42 PM PST by IronJack
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To: EdnaMode

Pervert.


114 posted on 11/24/2018 8:06:41 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Yaelle; PeterPrinciple

You may strive to show love to these people but catering to their delusions is not a kindness. Additionally, you cannot have empathy with them unless you suffer from the same derangement. You may feel sympathy for them but not empathy.


115 posted on 11/24/2018 8:15:13 PM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: stinkerpot65

It is sad that the lunatic left embraces mental illness , rather than treating it. Idiots. Likely this mentally ill guy will kill him self.


116 posted on 11/24/2018 8:21:48 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EdnaMode

Andrea Long Chu will need to change “her” name to Andrea Deep Chu.


117 posted on 11/24/2018 8:36:54 PM PST by moovova
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To: EdnaMode


"Unfortunately, the surgeon was drunk, and put it in my armpit."

118 posted on 11/24/2018 8:37:41 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: EdnaMode
Dysphoria is notoriously difficult to describe to those who haven’t experienced it, like a flavor.

I'm not going to condemn or judge people who have this mental issue - they have a right to seek happiness in life. But surely the safest and least destructive way to find that happiness would be to try to treat the mental issue rather than mutilating one's own body.
119 posted on 11/24/2018 8:43:26 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: EdnaMode

I’m curious to see what the new meat curtains look like

Full fronthole nudity


120 posted on 11/24/2018 8:47:41 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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