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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
While I feel some sympathy for someone who feels they’re trapped in the wrong body...well, what about me? I’m supposed to be taller...and maybe look different than I do. I wasn’t supposed to have the father I did. My husband would say the same about his early beginnings.
So WTF....I just don’t feel that much concern...we all have problems. And she can do what she wants about her issues as long as she doesn’t try to force everyone else to pay for it.
“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.”
Is this “dysphoria” any worse than the sickening feeling we get every day we wake up knowing that American has become operationally a collective insane asylum fostered by the radical left?
Is this “dysphoria” worse than the “incongruence” I feel about the normative gender expressions of others related to their biological sex when such gender expressions deviate from the traditional norm?
Why is your dysphoria something everyone should feel sympathy for?
Why is my dysphoria an expression of “transphobia” or “homophobia”?
Why are my “phobias” treated differently than all other phobias in that they are assigned (by the left) a moral quality?
If I really had a phobia, and this phobia is immoral because of being an expression of supposed hate, why is it appropriate for the left to attack and make threats against those who show signs of such phobias?
Is threatening someone for having a “phobia” a rational response to such a condition, if you believe this condition is real?
The other day I flipped radio channels to NPR, and found they were discussing the cultural oppression of women in our society.
I screamed at the radio. I’m just too sick of hearing this stuff.
It is all they ever talk about.
And I realize women ARE oppressed. But it is an oppression by the left against true femininity and motherhood. It is an oppression caused by the hyper-sexualization of society that encourages and fosters the sexual abuse of women and girls (as well as boys). And it blames all men, but especially white, Christian men, for the evils perpetrated by anti-Christians of a variety of races and both sexes (there are only two).
The left is perpetually aggrieved and obsessed with perverted sex, murdering babies, stealing from the “rich” (middle class in practice), and “minorities” who happen to collectively make up the majority of society.
The incessant talk about these things deserves more than contempt. It deserves rage. It deserves punishment.
Many many conditions appear incurable to us now but may not always be. Some will
Be preventable
In the future like scurvy. Some will be cured.
We Onviously disagree on what gender dysphoria is. It’s imo not a delusion. I didn’t use the right word, maybe sympathy is the right word.
I would be glad to cut them some slack if I could never tell what they used to be but heck....
What kind of insanity is this!? A deeply unhappy person will continue to be unhappy after butchering themself, and this is somehow progressive and good?
I say it is hatred of humanity that doesn’t stand up against it.
That is one pitiful piece of meat with two eyes.
Fat,ugly,and stupid is no way to go through life son.
I loce the clint Eastwood pics....in old age he and my dad could have passed for twins except my dad didnt have CW’s cheerful demeanor
That guy better become a lesbian... just sayin’
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to even discuss alternative solutions like this, without swiftly receiving the label, 'bigot.'
San Francisco, USA has become the social trend for our country. That one town has enormous political sway nationally.
But if different technologies and treatments can be invented to assist people to live more satisfying lives, should they choose them, that is what freedom is about and we shouldn't let one city in California limit an American's options. I know that the activist Milo, for example, was toying with the idea of conversion therapy, he sounds pretty conflicted about being gay. If an insurance company YOU pay for offers an effective treatment, go for it -- but taxpayer subsidies should not be used, esp for a nyt's writer like this poor guy who's about to enter a whole new level of long term pain and suffering.
More ExLax promoting the She=He=It movement.
“You can’t fix a mental delusion by pandering to it...
Folks involved in doing this are engaging in malpractice and abuse”
That would be democrats who advocate so boldly and obnoxiously for all these sexual perversions and psychoses.
I have hopes of getting a vagina temporarily tonight. It will make me happy!
What they are doing is no different from ritualistic genital mutilation by the you-know-whos.
It is stone crazy that this sort of 'folie-a-tous' should be allowed to happen in any kind of clean, well-lit, state-licensed facility.
Where are the local LEOs on this? Why are people not being charged with mayhem?
His docter is the famous Russian Dr. I. Kutcherpeckeroff
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.
I feel demonstrably worse since I started on hormones. One reason is that, absent the levies of the closet, years of repressed longing for the girlhood I never had have flooded my consciousness. I am a marshland of regret. Another reason is that I take estrogen — effectively, delayed-release sadness, a little aquamarine pill that more or less guarantees a good weep within six to eight hours.
I was not suicidal before hormones. Now I often am.
there is still only one way to obtain hormones and surgery: to pretend that these treatments will make the pain go away.
I still want this, all of it. I want the tears; I want the pain. Transition doesn’t have to make me happy for me to want it.
The negative passions — grief, self-loathing, shame, regret — are as much a human right as universal health care, or food. There are no good outcomes in transition. There are only people, begging to be taken seriously.
Remember that he still wants the transgender manipulation, and these negatives are stated bcz he is arguing that doctors should do trans surgery and medicine simply because te patient want it, contrary to the medical maxim “First, do no harm.”
I do feel sorry for them, and there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47
Notice, everywhere, now the complete absence of the original narrative that ‘transgenderism’ has an objective medical basis - some sort of sex gene abnormality or hormone level dysfunction. Now, it is absolutely and unquestioningly a subjective self-declaration. And we’re called “unscientific” by pointing this out.
Forget the months, years, of “talks” with a specializing “clinical psychologist.” Your new designer diagnosis is as accessible and instant as your stated claim. The inconvenience of a doctor’s excuse has faded into obscurity to the point that most hope we won’t notice. After all, no laws recognizing this “status” for preferential treatment require one iota of medical proof to claim it.
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