Posted on 11/18/2019 11:33:09 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Less than a year after having gender surgery, Nathaniel now says, This whole thing was a bad idea. I am 19 years old, and I feel as though I have ruined my life.
Its heartbreaking each time I get a letter from someone who underwent gender-change surgery and regrets it, especially someone as young as Nathaniel.
With his permission, Im telling a bit of his story to raise awareness of the young lives being ruined by the rush to surgery, and hoping that hearing the testimony of this young man will influence others on this path to slow down and consider the consequences before consenting to surgery.
In Nathaniels case, he says he was bullied by the boys in elementary school because he was sensitive and preferred playing girl games. When he was a bit older, he discovered internet pornography, heard about transgenderism, and as he says, convinced myself thats what I was.
When he finally worked up the nerve to tell his mother in the summer after eighth grade, she made an appointment with, in his words, a doctor at an informed-consent clinic.
He started seeing the doctor a week after his 15th birthday, and from how he describes the next years of his teens, Id say going to the clinic didnt improve his life.
From then on, he says, I slowly detached from everything until I was just staying home, playing video games, and going on the internet all day. I stopped reading, drawing, riding my bicycle. I surrounded myself in an echo chamber that supported and validated my poor decisions, because the others were also, unfortunately, stuck in that pit, too.
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That was my point.
Adulthood is not fully developed and most cultures around the world since antiquity have recognized that adulthood is not the pinnacle of human development. Further maturation continues befor decline sets in.
In the mid twentieth century the west fully embraced stupidity.
Serious stupidity.
Humans become adults if they shoulder appropriate responsibility in their mid to late teens. Brain development continues at least until twentyfive, but many, many cultures across the millennia consider thirty three or so completely matured.
Idiot western academia seems to have asserted that one isn’t even an adult until one is an elder, creating the eternal childhood culture we see now.
On the lighter brighter side IF someone murders him - Elizabeth Warren will call out his name...
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