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 dont expect it to. That shouldnt 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 havent 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 theyve 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: Youre 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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.....
Your father had common sense, Andy.
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.
He’s a lesbian. How’s that for nutty delusions???
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.
Oh No,,,
As Uncle Milty would Say,
“Makeup!”
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.
What is sadder is that their story, for the most part, never has a happy ending.
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.
Holy mackerel! Obviously he’s already spent a fortune on ugly lessons.
Pervert.
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.
It is sad that the lunatic left embraces mental illness , rather than treating it. Idiots. Likely this mentally ill guy will kill him self.
Andrea Long Chu will need to change “her” name to Andrea Deep Chu.
![]() "Unfortunately, the surgeon was drunk, and put it in my armpit." |
Im curious to see what the new meat curtains look like
Full fronthole nudity
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