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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

81 posted on 11/24/2018 6:37:58 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: montag813

From this pic — looks like “she” is going to need to deal with “male pattern baldness” real soon too...


82 posted on 11/24/2018 6:38:42 PM PST by twyn1
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I agree with Belushi!


83 posted on 11/24/2018 6:44:14 PM PST by W. (Belch!)
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To: madprof98

Dennis Prager has said that “if men and women were to switch hormones, women would start looking to have sex with everyone they meet, an men would commit suicide”. I think that’s true-women will never really understand the male sex drive and men will never understand how female hormones can make women anxious and depressed.


84 posted on 11/24/2018 6:45:13 PM PST by Amberdawn (If The Left Didn't Believe In Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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To: VanDeKoik

“Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound;”

It used to be known as the axe wound that never heals.


85 posted on 11/24/2018 6:46:10 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: EdnaMode

Only read headline. Is this some kind of new trade in program? Is there a blue book value on an old vagina and taking in consideration age, condition, mileage, and accessories?


86 posted on 11/24/2018 6:47:51 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: robowombat

The “regressives” as I call them, work to confuse society and to destroy all that is Traditional. For them, the more wrenches they throw into the works, the better.


87 posted on 11/24/2018 6:48:14 PM PST by Amberdawn (If The Left Didn't Believe In Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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To: EdnaMode

What a sick freak. He should be committed for observation as he is obviously a danger to himself. The doctor should be arrested for crimes against humanity.


88 posted on 11/24/2018 6:49:29 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: EdnaMode
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina.

No, you won't.

ntil the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound;

That's because it isn't a vagina, you delusional freak!

89 posted on 11/24/2018 6:49:29 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Drew68; Liz; HarleyLady27

90 posted on 11/24/2018 6:50:20 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: catnipman

What a great meme!


91 posted on 11/24/2018 6:51:13 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: EdnaMode

Is the organ being removed going to be in the organ donation database?


92 posted on 11/24/2018 6:52:06 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: madprof98

You make a key point about the hormones. It has become so commonplace for people to have access to them people don’t truly understand the extend of the impact they have on a persons mental state. They can literally push one over the edge or bring them back.


93 posted on 11/24/2018 6:52:34 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Baynative; Liz; HarleyLady27
The trans genders are fairly normal and a lot more honest than reporters and editors at the New York Times. Those are the CRAZY AND DESTRUCTIVE FREAKS of this planet!

The enemies of the people and the carnival barkers for mental illness, fake reality, and civilization trashing.

94 posted on 11/24/2018 6:58:47 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: EdnaMode
"Transition doesn’t have to make me happy for me to want it. Left to their own devices, people will rarely pursue what makes them feel good in the long term. Desire and happiness are independent agents..."

True enough. And when people are suffering with an addiction to something that is personally destructive, the medical community and society as a whole have historically always felt it incumbent to either find a way to prevent them from hurting themselves and/or others, to find a therapy to wean them from that addiction, or to deny them access to it altogether. The inverse opposite of this past philosophy has now been tossed into the ash heap, and every addiction of any kind is now to be catered to, supplied, and even celebrated. Right is wrong. Black is white. Up is down.

95 posted on 11/24/2018 7:02:39 PM PST by Marcus Licinius Crassus (“O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.” -Shakespeare)
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To: poinq

Slap away, my FRiend. Sounds like the right thing to do — especially the NYT editorial board. Good comment!


96 posted on 11/24/2018 7:03:22 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: Jemian

“My brother was a boy trapped in a woman’s body, too.
Then, he was born.”

Good one!


97 posted on 11/24/2018 7:04:52 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: EdnaMode

Bump for later


98 posted on 11/24/2018 7:08:01 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
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To: EdnaMode

FORTY PERCENT of US transgenders commit suicide AFTER they have completed gender reassignment sugery. That’s almost ten times the suicide rate of nontransgender US adults.

The writer of this article sounds seriously mentally ill, very seriously depressed. I predict he will commit suicide within the next couple of years.


99 posted on 11/24/2018 7:08:46 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: EdnaMode

I assumed it was some cad talking about his new girlfriend.


100 posted on 11/24/2018 7:15:18 PM PST by PGR88
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