Posted on 01/02/2023 7:06:44 AM PST by Beowulf9
"I haven't found one person that actually has gender dysphoria," Walt Heyer said. "I have found that they have generalized dysphoria."
Walt Heyer, one of the first transgender women when he transitioned four decades ago, has long since transitioned back to male.
Today he rejects the notion that there can be a transgender person, arguing a person struggling with gender dysphoria almost always an underlying issue.
"People who identify this way are struggling with either bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, body dysmorphia, depression, or some underlying comorbid issue," Heyer said on "The New Foundation for American Greatness," a Just the News special report sponsored by Heritage Action for America.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Walt Heyer began his transition from male to female in the 1980s, when he started to go by the female name Laura Jensen. He said that childhood trauma from his grandmother dressing him up in a purple dress when he was four and being sexually molested as a kid led to this ultimate decision.
"My grandmother was a seamstress making women's clothing, and she was babysitting me," Heyer recalled. "I became very interested in what she was doing as a 4-year-old kid. I was mesmerized by what my grandma was doing and eventually showed an interest in cross-dressing, at 4 years old. As you know, 4-year-olds are curious about everything."
Heyer recounted how his grandmother ended up psychologically abusing him by dressing him up in a dress she made for him.
"Grandma decided in her wisdom to make me a purple chiffon dress that perfectly matched my little body in 1944," he continued. "She put that dress on me and started affirming me and started telling me how cute I was. In there lies what we call an adverse childhood experience where you begin to damage a child. This is emotional and psychological abuse."
Although this early cross-dressing episode and his later experience as a victim of sexual abuse at age 9 led to him struggling with gender identity, it wasn’t until the early '80s that Heyer began his transition, he says.
"I decided that I would go see a gender specialist," he said. "Never go to a gender specialist. They will destroy your life. That's their whole purpose. It destroyed my life. He said, 'You have gender dysphoria, and what you need is hormones and surgery.' That was in 1981."
It wasn't until he started studying psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz that he understood that nobody is born transgender and those struggling with gender dysphoria typically have underlying issues, such as depression or body dysmorphia.
Heyer went on to write "Trans Life Survivors," a book compiling the first-person accounts of 30 people who learned the hard way that the promises of gender change are illusory
"Nobody is altered hormonally to the point where they change genders," said Heyer. "The only thing that hormones do is make you look feminine or, for a girl, look masculine. So what is the real word that we should be using? The real word is we're feminizing boys or men, and masculinizing women. We're not changing anybody's gender. No gender in history has ever changed."
The most important takeway from Heyer's own unhappy gender change experience is to understand "we have a social contagion that is indoctrinating kids in school," he said.
Successfully turning back the seemingly inexorable tide of gender ideology must begin with rejecting the new language the movement seeks to normalize in its bid to effect a new social reality, Heyer believes.
"We need to stop using the word gender dysphoria, stop using the word transgender, and stop saying transitioning," he said, "because I haven't found one person that actually has gender dysphoria. I have found that they have generalized dysphoria ... so I think we need to own the language. We're using the LGBT language, and we're hurting ourselves by using their terminology."
I wonder if senator Murkowski has ever considered transitioning back? That is one ugly rino!
I wonder if senator Murkowski has ever considered transitioning back? That is one ugly rino!
Are we actually suppose to give a damn about someone who claims he was a man, changed into a woman and now back to a man? The state of journalism today is summed up with this nonsense article.
They suffer from a lack of God in their lives.
🤗😆😅😀
People who identify this way are struggling with either bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, body dysmorphia, depression, or some underlying comorbid issue,”.....
“Nobody’s born transgender,” he continued. “The truth is transgenders don’t exist. There is no such thing as a transgender.”
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Exactly.... all those things that ‘they’ want to normalize are just different aspects of various serious mental prolems.
She’s so ugly, she deserved the double-post!
“We need to stop using the word gender dysphoria, stop using the word transgender, and stop saying transitioning,”....
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Another exact statement... The way ‘they’ get people accepting the nonsense is always by first inventing language they get people to agree to and then start using themselves. This is why I absolutely never use the word ‘gay’ when talking about some aspect of homosexuality.
That's his story from 1944. Just imagine how many children today are being damaged by bad parenting. The woke people do generational damage.
Terrific piece. Unfortunately, the transgender “gender dysphoria” toothpaste is out of the tube. No way will we be able to get them to stop using this term.
The guy was abused as a child, so I will give a damn about him.
Really?
Twit is claiming that wearing a dress caused his issues?
NOT LIKELY.
The journalist in question is John Solomon aka “Just the News”, who has a solid history of exposing the hypocrisy of the left, so yeah, some of us do. You can find plenty others who defend the tranny nonsense rather then calling it what it is: a mental illness.
This slop is better suited for the National Inquirer, but send my regards to John Solomon. I guess he’s earning a buck.
Has anybody seen Mick Jagger and Lisa Murkowski at the same place at the same time?
I'll guess the vast majority of these sad sacks are raised by a single parent, the mother. And that (single mothers) underscores a demographic that is rife with mental problems.
How many of these sad sacks tried to "transition" because crazy dope smoking/xanax popping ho of a momma always wanted a girl....?
I think it is actually important that some of these people speak out about what was done to them by family members and physicians to encourage their mental illness. It’s obvious that this man’s grandmother was the main cause of his mental problems. Maybe his story will save a few children from making the same mistakes he did. Physicians need to be sued to the point that malpractice insurance companies will no longer cover those that promote or perform “gender affirming” surgeries.
Conservatives for decades have been told to be quiet about the harm the progressives have caused young children. We have yielded the field on cultural issues for way too long. These stories need to be amplified so that maybe parents will think twice about encouraging their children in such delusions.
Call me crazy, but I don’t care what someone who “double transitions” thinks.
The normal people don’t need to rely on a mentally ill person who “sees the light”.
I still have my penis from birth, and I never thought of chopping it off.
My opinion is more valuable and numerous.
Transition is more-less a major nose job.
Nothing, but changing an appearance!
To really change gender, one would need to change every cell in his/hers body. Impossible!
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