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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: Lee N. Field

To give lupron to children is child abuse plain and simple.


61 posted on 11/24/2018 5:56:13 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

trans-affirmative care meant “cooperating with a mental illness.”
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That’s exactly what it means.
Encouraging delusions is malpractice.


62 posted on 11/24/2018 5:57:17 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Yaelle

We just need to have love and empathy for people who had this clearly devastating condition.


That is not love..................................


63 posted on 11/24/2018 5:57:22 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: EdnaMode

Unlike real Vagina’s, I doubt it will make anyone else happy either.


64 posted on 11/24/2018 5:58:26 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

We need to love anyone we care about who is born with gender dysphoria. It’s not their fault. You see it at 2 years old. For sure by 3. These are innocent babes and their parents didn’t cause it. Damn straight we should love people with disabilities.


65 posted on 11/24/2018 5:59:33 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

Wait until he finds out his insurance rates are going up.


66 posted on 11/24/2018 6:01:51 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: EdnaMode

Mentally damaged people touted by “experts’ as healthy and normal, and making hundreds of thousands of dollars off these messed up people.

No one is actually getting any proper ‘help’.


67 posted on 11/24/2018 6:02:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Yaelle

It is an incurable disease, which makes people who suffer from it desperate to convince themselves that they can overcome it.

Unfortunately, butchering themselves is not the answer.


68 posted on 11/24/2018 6:02:33 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: EdnaMode

And a growing percentage regard their surgeries as mistakes and want their original equipment back.


69 posted on 11/24/2018 6:02:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Skywise

WAKE UP, NOT JUST MEN.


70 posted on 11/24/2018 6:03:08 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tomkat

Its because they are menally ill. Appeasing the illness will never make someone happy.


71 posted on 11/24/2018 6:03:48 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: VanDeKoik

We can only imagine what the NYT passed off as real news and public sentiment before the internet shined a light on them.


72 posted on 11/24/2018 6:06:05 PM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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To: EdnaMode

Mrs. Garrison: Hello doctor, looks like I need an abortion. [sits on the chair and puts his feet on the stirrups]
Doctor: ...an abortion?
Mrs. Garrison: Yeah, I’ve got one growing inside me. Now, are you gonna scramble its brains or just vacuum it out? [a nurse arrives and her jaw drops] ...If you want you can just scramble it and I’ll queef it out myself.
Doctor: Mmister Garrison-
Mrs. Garrison: [correcting him] Mrs. Garrison.
Doctor: Mmrs. Garrison, you can’t have an abortion.
Mrs. Garrison: Don’t you tell me what I can and can’t do with my body! [gets up, goes to the nurse, and hugs her] A woman has a right to choose!
Doctor: No, I mean you’re physically unable to have an abortion, because you can’t get pregnant.
Mrs. Garrison: But I missed my period.
Doctor: You can’t have periods either. [Mrs. Garrison looks surprised] You had a sex change, Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb. You don’t produce eggs.
Mrs. Garrison: [sits down] You mean, I’ll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me and then scramble its brains and vacuum it out?
Doctor: N-that’s right.
Mrs. Garrison: But I paid five thousand dollars to be a woman. This would mean I I’m not really a woman. I... I’m just a... a I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis!
Doctor: Basically, yes.
Mrs. Garrison: ...Oh boy, do I feel like a jackass.


73 posted on 11/24/2018 6:07:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s sad that some one like Karen Carpenter at 80 pounds, looks in a mirror and sees fat, and she has a mental condition, but a transgender looks in a mirror, see the exact opposite sex and it’s all perfectly acceptable.


74 posted on 11/24/2018 6:09:02 PM PST by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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To: HamiltonJay

[[You can’t fix a mental delusion by pandering to it...]]

The fella needs psychiatric help, not surgical butchering, but sadly noone will be blunt and honest with him apparently


75 posted on 11/24/2018 6:09:50 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bommer

GREAT observation-—thanks for posting it.

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76 posted on 11/24/2018 6:11:02 PM PST by Mears
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To: EdnaMode

The Liberals support this because it won’t have any babies.


77 posted on 11/24/2018 6:17:54 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: madprof98
He needs to be in an asylum....

Where he'll finally get all the sex he wants, just the way he wants it!

We didn't have all of these frustrated trannies in the U.S. until the Democrats closed down the insane asylums back in the 60's.

Before then, when these people were getting locked up for life together, they and the asylum staff were making each other very, very happy.

78 posted on 11/24/2018 6:18:24 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: entropy12
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.

I can't see how they can do a male to female reversal. Even a female to male would be problematic and there would be no feeling in either one.

This mental illness is why trannies don't ever belong in any military, police, firefighter, or EMT service. They are not fit to work with people on those levels.

79 posted on 11/24/2018 6:21:06 PM PST by Boomer (The only good leftists are those who have 'left us' for another country)
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To: EdnaMode

Small blurb in the news about his suicide or overdose death in 3, 2, 1 . . .


80 posted on 11/24/2018 6:35:25 PM PST by BusterDog
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