Good point. A troubled, unhappy, confused and broken person imagines the “miracles of medicine” can change him or her into a whole and happy and healthy new person — into someone else entirely, someone of the opposite sex even. Only it can’t. You’re still the same troubled, unhappy, confused person you were before, now perhaps with a mutilated body and/or a body trying to deal with unnatural hormones.
A young woman on the autism spectrum who has an emotional disorder, as Audrey reportedly was, is given to believe “what is really going on with you is you are trans, trapped in a body of the wrong sex, and we can fix that”. One can see why these troubled people fall for that. Autism can’t be fixed, and emotional disorders are hard to treat. Besides, trans is the cool “in” thing now, far more socially acceptable than an emotional disorder.
I fear that this is the real driving force behind the transgender nonsense we are seeing.
It used to be that a boy exhibiting feminine mannerisms was teased mercilessly by his peers and even shunned. As well, there were usually parents nipping that behavior in the bud at home.
Sure, there were "sissies" when I went to school, as well as "tomboys", which was much more tolerated but still had its limits. You never heard about any of them wanting to actually change their gender however. Peer pressure and better parenting kept all of this in check.
Now that it has become stylish and the "in thing" to be transgender, everybody is getting on the bandwagon and there is no more stigma in a child announcing he or she (usually a he) wishes to identify with the opposite gender. In, fact, it's very appealing for a socially awkward child as this immediately makes them more popular in school.
Gaining popularity in school is like crack cocaine for schoolchildren, especially children who were never that popular to begin with. They will do ANYTHING to obtain popularity.
It is especially appealing to boys to take this route because there is a lot of pressure on boys to be "tough", to make it in sports, to grow into a man. When they have the option to put on a dress and be fawned over, treated delicately and such, many of them will go that way as all the pressures that boys typically have will be instantly removed.
Then we have attention-starved parents (usually mothers) who actually encourage their little boys to become girls, as it gives them a certain social cachet, in the circles they run in. To them, their little "transgirl" is a cute accessory, a conversation piece, like the pocket dogs they used go around with.
Parents that are willing to mutiliate and emotionally scar their children for life, even rendering them unable to reproduce on their own, are on the same level as pedophiles in my opinion.
Agreed, CH.
Perhaps the trans suicide rate is so high because they sought only to change the shell and then they come to realize the core is still the same.
In my view, peace only comes from within.