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 ...
From this pic — looks like “she” is going to need to deal with “male pattern baldness” real soon too...
I agree with Belushi!
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.
“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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
What a great meme!
Is the organ being removed going to be in the organ donation database?
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.
The enemies of the people and the carnival barkers for mental illness, fake reality, and civilization trashing.
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.
Slap away, my FRiend. Sounds like the right thing to do — especially the NYT editorial board. Good comment!
“My brother was a boy trapped in a womans body, too.
Then, he was born.”
Good one!
Bump for later
FORTY PERCENT of US transgenders commit suicide AFTER they have completed gender reassignment sugery. Thats 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.
I assumed it was some cad talking about his new girlfriend.
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