Posted on 01/14/2019 6:50:17 PM PST by rickmichaels
As society continues to evolve – and some critics might argue 'devolve' – into a more progressive understanding of gender and sexuality, the stakes couldn't be higher. To the dismay of many parents, this societal tug-of-war over transgenderism is playing out on today's college campuses like never before – and is hitting young women particularly hard.
One mother, Katherine Cave, recently called attention to the issue, telling The College Fix, "I am writing to you on behalf of parents who have lost their kids at college to the transgender craze."
"Many liberal colleges have significant percentages of students suddenly identifying as transgender," Cave writes. "And as you may know, all it takes is a simple visit to an informed consent clinic where girls get testosterone injections to help them look like males."
One such case involved a 19-year-old girl named Pam who, according to her mother, "fits the typical description of a young woman affected by this craze – very bright, extreme social justice warrior, highly creative, socially awkward/ADHD/Asperger spectrum, OCD/obsessive interests."
"While she was not a super girly-girl, she had never any masculine interests (not one) and has all the stereotypical feminine interests and traits (cooking, knitting, babysitting little kids, etc)," Pam's mother explained. "She went from being a feminist/pro women's rights to hating white males to now wanting to become one and wanting to chemically and surgically mutilate her body."
In yet another example of 'transmania,' The Wall Street Journal's Abigail Shrier shares the story of an attorney whose daughter left for college a "girly-girl" only to return having undergone a shocking transformation.
"The young woman went off to college—which began, as it often does these days, with an invitation to state her name, sexual orientation and 'pronouns.' When her anxiety flared during her first semester, she and several of her friends decided their angst had a fashionable cause: 'gender dysphoria. "Within a year, the lawyer's daughter had begun a course of testosterone," Shrier recounts.
Shrier argues that the "real drug" that reeled in the young woman "was the promise of a new identity," noting that a "shaved head, boys' clothes and a new name formed the baptismal waters of a female-to-male rebirth."
Brown University public health researcher Lisa Littman labels this disturbing new phenomenon as "rapid onset gender dysphoria." Unlike gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder which takes hold in early childhood, Shirer describes ROGD as a "social contagion" that sets in during adolescence "afflicting teens who'd never exhibited any confusion about their sex."
The Fix reports that this "contagion" has blindsided an increasing number of mothers "who are shocked when their formerly feminine daughters suddenly come from home college with mustaches, acne, different demeanors — even their breasts removed."
Critics lay the blame on liberal ideology being peddled at college campuses across the country. According to The Wall Street Journal, 86 schools offer health plans that cover everything from cross-sex hormones to surgery.
Meanwhile, this new movement is also drawing some unlikely critics, ones who warn the implications of gender fluid ideology could carry far-reaching societal implications.
"I've always been fascinated, attracted to the subject of androgyny... but the more I explored it I realized that historically the movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture as a civilization is starting to unravel," explained left-wing feminist Camille Paglia.
"And the people who live in such late phases of culture – whether it's the Hellenistic era, whether it's the Roman Empire – feel they're very sophisticated, very cosmopolitan. But from the perspective of historical distance, you can see it's a culture that no longer believes in itself."
Not suprising. It’s the old rule that if you subsidize something, you tend to get more of it. Also, people are idiots.
CC
Yep - they’re so sophisticated!
I suspect that a huge proportion of these cases stem from major brain/mental illnesses (well yeah, since ALL transgender cases by definition are “mental illness”). BUT I mean also that someone is probably struggling with major biological illness of a more “conventional” kind such as depression, manic depression, severe ADHD, schizophrenia, etc..... since they struggle to make any sense of their inner experiences they are much more susceptible to grasping at extreme explanations for why they struggle and feel so horrible. The SJW/transgender warriors offer them this crazy explanation that they really have a “female” brain in a male body or vice-versa, and since nothing else has made sense to them they start down that path.
Just a wild loose type of hypothesis that should be researched.... I’ll bet there is huge overlap between the “transgender” population and various (other) mental illnesses.
“She went from being a feminist/pro women’s rights to hating white males to now wanting to become one”
Typical confused liberal.
If “daughter” came to my front door like that, I’d tell “him” to go somewhere else.
This seriously needs some documentation of who these kids are, and the various leanings of them and their families.
The expression: “They weren’t raised right” is found far less often in children from conservative families.
“As bent is the twig, so grows the tree.” It starts at an early age.
Doctor Deborah Soh is attacking this from the left, bringing up that some of the “transgenders” getting this treatment are homosexual. That feminized men we’d consider “gay” and masculinzed butch lesbians are now considered women and men.
She calls this a form of homophobia, that some people would rather be the opposite sex and heterosexual than admit they’re homosexual.
On the flipside are the biologically intact men who are sexually attracted to women but identify as “women” ... the guys who tend to be similarly very autistic and/or narcissistic. 75-80% retain the male plumbing, dress as women, are attracted to women ... so they’re mentally ill men in dresses pressuring lesbians to have sex with them.
Equality is no longer men and women in Mao suits and working side by side. Instead, it is everyone equally androgynous and interchangeable in bed.
[so they’re mentally ill men]
Reminds me of a Bruce Jenner photo I saw in a tabloid in the check out lane many years ago. The look in his eyes. He did not look well.
But seriously, people in the future are going to look back at these time and wonder what the heck we were thinking.
DEVOLUTION.
“Are we not Men?”
A great question....
It really sucks that they have also appropriated multi-color anything (rainbows) as “their” symbol. They ruined the word gay, they ruined rainbows for crying out loud.
Thanks for the link. This uptick in transgenders is a great evil, perpetrated by the father of all lies, satan. Lord, have mercy on this confused people, and show them the truth, in Jesus Name.
Force the acceptance of LGBT deviancy on society and this is what you get.
"And the people who live in such late phases of culture – whether it's the Hellenistic era, whether it's the Roman Empire – feel they're very sophisticated, very cosmopolitan. But from the perspective of historical distance, you can see it's a culture that no longer believes in itself."
I would like to see some references to that.
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