Posted on 04/14/2017 2:37:44 AM PDT by lowbridge
Children think it's cool to be transgender and they're trying the self-identity out in droves, claims an Australian psychiatrist.
Psychiatrist Stephen Stathis, who runs the gender clinic at Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital and is responsible for diagnosing gender dysphoria, reports that “many” youth are “trying out being transgender” in order to stand out.
Apparently, declaring oneself “transgender” is trendy. “One said to me, ‘Doctor Steve ... I want to be transgender, it’s the new black,’” Stathis related.
Dr. Stathis also says many girls want to be transgender as a result of sexual abuse. “The girls say, ‘If only I had been a male, I wouldn’t have been abused,’” Stathis explained.
Some are so convinced their life would be better if they were the opposite sex that they do something drastic or permanent. “I’ve seen genital mutilation, some who try to cut off their penis,’’ Stathis said.
Australia began a new, government-funded "gender service" for children at Lady Cilento Hospital, which expects to assess 180 youth this year. The goal of most of the gender-confused children is to get puberty blocking chemicals and/or sex change hormone treatment.
Most patients, however, are simply going through a common phase of adolescent life, Stathis explained.
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Let’s all pause for a moment, and reflect on just how fortunate we are that the pseudo-science of psychology, and the people who created it, have contributed this wonder to civilization.
When adults grow weary with nurturing the “transgendered,” the teenagers will try being “transspecies.”
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Too late. Ever hear of “otherkin”? There ya go:
The only thing I’m sure of is that no made-up genders were so ridiculous they got rejected, except perhaps “penguin”. Those who identify as penguins will have to wait a couple of years before they are also affirmed.
The cutting fad comes to mind too.
ISWYDT
Look at me, I’m special.
No, you’re a freak.
It is being deeper into the liberal cult. This makes you a better person.
Exactly.
Yeah, unfortunately, I do remember that one. Close to $3K gone in an instant. LOL!
I know they exist, but it’s not yet a “civil right.”
I can't imagine how it all returns to normal without something cataclysmic happening.
Spot on observation. Whatever the trend is some will follow.
when I was in grade school, north entrance was marked “boys” the south entrance was “girls”....boys played with boys and girls played with girls. but alas that was 1949...
Eating disorders and cutting are still out there, but they’re not the attention-getters. Teenage life, especially on the Internet, is like a negative feedback loop/echo chamber in which the one with the biggest misery index is overwhelmed with attention, thus driving an arms race in destructive behaviors.
The old Powerglide in my 64 is staring to leak around the seals. It’s got over 220k miles on it, not too bad. A good trans shop can rebuild it for $2500. Or for a few hundred more I could put in a newer Hydramatic with overdrive and the improved as mileage mat help pay for itself.
No sheet sherlock
At my daughter’s high school, the school in town for the “elite” (which I mistakenly got her into because I wanted a cocoon) all 6 theater students “came out” as “gay” on the same day. Isn’t that cool? eyeroll
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