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 ...
And this story show how low the NY Slimes has sunken. They are a corrupt joke.
First they want gov’t (tax payers) to pay for trans gender operation. Then many are in remorse, and tax payers are asked to pay for the reversal.
The left would encourage an abortion of a Downs syndrome child as being someone who would not have a fulfilled life.
Just sayin’...
with a little eye liner,,,
And a Shave.
It needs sychological help not body mutilation.
The author is slow. I had that diagnosis by the headline instead of waiting until the fourth paragraph.
XY until you die... and depending on the sensitivity of the DNA test for thousands of years afterward.
Bruce Jenner? Is that YOU?
Call it what you want but it’s not a vagina. You desperately want to think it is. It’s a wound. Your body is right, as it was when you were conceived.
You are a man. The worst thing that happened to you was not liking the sex that you are.
You didn’t become a woman. You are a man who had his dick cut off and a permanent incision cut in the area where it was.
You are mentally ill.
Gonna take a Long Chew to get that thing off. Cyanide can treat suffering too. If I want to identify as a cyclops....does that give a doctor the legal and ethical sanction to cut my eye out?
” I want to do it anyway ... is that OK?”
Only if you pay for it, including all the subsequent drugs you need to maintain your egotistical fantasy.
And how many men would want to get near this thing, let alone use its “vagina”???? Yuck!!!!
No selfies , please
the best course seems to be to just shoot yourself
No selfies , please
It’s not a vagina.
” Will there be a follow up article after there inevitable suicide? “
Yes, on page 6 (soon the last page of the New York Times).
You just summed up the insanity of this article perfectly.
I don’t want to read the whole thing. She is wrong; the SCIENCE view of gender dysphoria is not that it is a delusion. Obviously, it is a factual discrepancy between one’s brain and one’s body. I’m sure one day one can pinpoint a place and time in space and development where this brain body disfunction occurs.
But as this patient proves, changing the body to match the brain is not wholly satisfying. For at least half, it doesn’t provide relief, which means it is a scientifically proven BAD TREATMENT.
We need a treatment more advanced than this primitive binary “transitioning.” We are both our brains and our bodies. In some ways, the ground gained for treating all disabilities has included a lot of social acceptance. There needs to be full social and self acceptance for people who are not comfortable in their gender. We don’t need to change our world or try and change truth for them. We just need to have love and empathy for people who had this clearly devastating condition.
There’s a .45 caliber cure for this sickness.
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