Transgenderism is the only politically endorsed mental illness.
When someone says “I want to chop off an arm” or “make me blind”, most facilities lock them up, give them drugs and hard counseling.
Yet if someone says “I want to remove my primary and secondary sexual characteristics”, the state and psychiatric organizations say “Yes, we have to support this delusion and alter your body to fit it.” It is like giving someone who says he is Napoleon plastic surgery to look like Napoleon.
Transgenderism is promoted by liberals because it fits several ideological points:
* there’s no difference between men and women, as if a man identifying as a woman and wearing a dress or having major surgery to resemble one proves this point
* by saying it is immoral / hurtful to refuse to sleep with a transgender no matter the anatomy, it furthers liberals agenda to say it is wrong to refuse to have sex with anyone for any reason; this is their idea of sexual liberation
* it is another bludgeon to attack Christian organizations with, after attacking marriage, now can attack sex roles and sexual segregation of facilities
“* it is another bludgeon to attack Christian organizations with, after attacking marriage, now can attack sex roles and sexual segregation of facilities”
Try this mental exercise. Suppose society gave into everything the Left wanted. Would they then stop demanding things? If the entire world became a Leftist mirror, would they be satisfied? I think not. They must be superior and, because they aren’t really superior, they must demonstrate constantly for something that only they know. They must maintain the illusion that they are the cognoscenti and the rest of us are dirty fly-over, deplorable peons. What would they demand now? Something absurd, I’m certain.
When society gives in to any demand, no matter how tiny, we hear the societal ratchet click and move on to the next demand. Frankly, I’m tired of it. Had I not been living through just the last twenty years, I wouldn’t even recognize society today. It’s frightening.