Playing devil’s advocate here...
“If someone came to a doctor and asked him to cut off a perfectly healthy arm because it just felt “wrong” for the arm to be there, should the doctor do it?”
What about circumcision? It also involves cutting off a bit of an (otherwise perfectly healthy) organ? Is that also mental illness?
Dare I HOPE this would be the case, that someone SANE in the pschiatric profession would call a spade, a spade. If a guy says he was a bear, or a whale...he would be getting treatment. Why if he has the plumbing for a guy do we have to believe him because he says he is a woman.
We have one of those in our building, thankfully not on our floor. I don’t know what he looked like as a man, but as a woman he is an absolute dog.
Transgenderism is a biological impossibility.
Town Hall sometimes publishes an article that drives PC police nuts. This is one of them!
100% correct
Heavy increase in the suicide rate a few years after this surgery. “Exceptionally high” according to an LA Times article.
I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
I dunno... I figure I’m like most men and would happily have surgery to add THREE MORE INCHES GUARANTEED.
As strange as this sounds, the states have never amended the Constitution to make transgenderism an enumerated right. So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against transgenderism imo, as long as such laws don’t unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.
Note that corrupt politicians are promising civil rights to protect perversions in order to win votes. The problem is that federal laws concerning civil rights must be reasonably based on enumerated constitutional protections which the states have amended to the Constituton. This is evidenced by wording in several amendments which grant Congress the power to protect a specific right. And many existing federal civil rights laws aren’t supported by enumerated protections and shouldn’t be in the books imo.
Sadly, the reason that politicians have gotten away with establishing constitutionally indefensible civil rights is because parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
It's an interesting question. One could say that all the patient ultimately has is his model of the world and himself; on the other hand, the physician might say hopefully that world view will change and normalize, and the patient would miss what's been removed.
What about the phantom limb syndrome. You still FEEL a lost limb that obviously is gone. Is that the same as feeling you should have genitalia you do not? How about any other mental images you hallucinate? Does society treat schizophrenics who ‘see’ things as normal? How is ‘seeing’ yourself as something you genetically are not any different? Why is it easier for an entire society to go along with the illusion than it is to admit it is a mental illusion confined to the individual? Playacting stops for other things-kids thinking they’re Superman for instance- but everyone must play along with adult fantasies/mental illness? Poor crazy bastards- pity them, or laugh...I do.
I wanted to be a firetruck when I was 3.
I want a hook and ladder and a red paint job immediately, you cis bionormal bigots.
Exactly, but in this crazy world, it is now a ticket to membership in America’s latest and greatest victim group.
With feather implants I'll BE a bird. And I'll finally be able to fly.
How dare anyone think that's mental illness. /s
I also insist the zoo make a bird cage for me at taxpayers expense and for my friends who also think they're birds. We flock together...