Posted on 11/29/2018 12:28:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When 19-year-old Kam Brooks was admitted to a behavioral health care facility in Sanford, Florida, after having suicidal thoughts, a nurse following her usual procedure asked the teen to remove personal items, including a bra.
“It’s a chest binder, not a bra,” Brooks, who identifies as neither male nor female but as gender nonbinary, responded before changing into a long-sleeve shirt and gray sweatpants.
During another interaction at the same facility, Aspire Health Partners, a nonprofit that caters to low-income patients, a counselor asked if Brooks was "male or female." This question, Brooks lamented, ignored the possibility that someone could identify as neither — or as somewhere in between.
“I went with the lesser of two evils and decided to portray myself as a man,” said Brooks, who had been struggling with gender dysphoria, a conflict between a person's gender assigned at birth and the gender with which they identify.
“I didn’t want to re-educate them on the correct terminology,” Brooks added. “I just wanted to get out of there.”
Brooks, who was assigned female at birth and and uses they/them pronouns, was eventually put on a list of female patients by the nursing staff and repeatedly referred to as a girl.
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Non-binary. A liberal euphemism. We’re talking about people who are lying about their sex.
What is the over/under on when this gender nonbinary offs itself?
Just a matter of time.
We shouldn’t consign insanity and mental illness
Sanford, FL?
Need to send Zimmerman back there to do some more cleaning up.
When will these mentally ill patients be institutionalized for the good of society?
One must want to be helped. This freak didn’t.
How could they help? They are the ones repeating this gender binary crap along with the rest of the mental degenerates.
They are part of the problem. Not the solution.
Gay conversion therapy might work. But that's against the law.
If I had that free time, I would be spending it on much more fun and productive pursuits!
Remember this song from the 70's?
It's so nice to be insane
No one asks you to explain
Radio by your side, Angie baby
Angie baby, you're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe..
Participating and encouraging mental illness does not help them.
Maybe, as someone who identifies as a German Shepherd, I could go to vet and demand treatment?
I do not remember that song (just a kid when it came out), so reading the lyrics gave me a chill!
I listened to the song and looked at Wikipedia. Apparently the author has never disclosed the true meaning.
Fascinating!
Exactly. People, 99.999% of the time, are born biologicaly male or female.
There birth certificates reflect that fact.
The idea of gender "assignment" is just leftist agitprop, an attempt to sow discord and create another leftist identity group to be exploited.
It is, essentially, the denunciation of reality to gain political power. It is evil.
You can’t help somebody who doesn’t want to be helped.
Maybe, as someone who identifies as a German Shepherd, I could go to vet and demand treatment?
______________________________
Forget that. They would just neuter you.
And if you complain put you down !
bad dog!
Yup, determined to be offended and superior in her wokeiosity. Spare me, hon.
I suspect the feeling was mutual.
That’s true.
Yes, I know. There’s a probably a common factor or factors behind both her suicidal ideation and her adoption of nonbinaryhood, but one mustn’t discuss that ...
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