On 2/2/2024 8:10 PM, Josh Rosenbluth wrote:
> On 2/2/2024 5:53 PM, Governor Swill wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 14:32:31 -0800, Josh Rosenbluth <
no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [load of shit]
I have never understood why this topic has become your hobby horse.
Why do you keep insisting that someone imagining s/he's something s/he is not is
not mental illness? It is mental illness, exactly the same as someone imagining
s/he is Napoleon/Josephine or a giraffe or a Martian is a mental illness. The
person is imagining something contrary to fact. No human is a giraffe or
Martian, and no living human possibly can be Napoleon or Josephine. People
imagining themselves to be are mentally ill.
"As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do."
By Pamela Paul
Feb 02, 2024
Grace Powell was 12 or 13 when she discovered she could be a boy.
Growing up in a relatively conservative community in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Powell, like many teenagers, didn’t feel comfortable in her own skin. She was
unpopular and frequently bullied. Puberty made everything worse. She suffered
from depression and was in and out of therapy.
“I felt so detached from my body, and the way it was developing felt hostile to
me,” Powell told me. It was classic gender dysphoria, a feeling of discomfort
with your sex. [*NOTE*: not "with your 'gender identity'"]
Reading about transgender people online, Powell believed that the reason she
didn’t feel comfortable in her body was that she was in the wrong body.
Transitioning seemed like the obvious solution. The narrative she had heard and
absorbed was that if you don’t transition, you’ll kill yourself.
At 17, desperate to begin hormone therapy, Powell broke the news to her parents.
They sent her to a gender specialist to make sure she was serious. In the fall
of her senior year of high school, she started cross-sex hormones. She had a
double mastectomy the summer before college, then went off as a transgender man
named Grayson to Sarah Lawrence College, where she was paired with a male
roommate on a men’s floor. At 5-foot-3, she felt she came across as a very
effeminate gay man.
At no point during her medical or surgical transition, Powell says, did anyone
ask her about the reasons behind her gender dysphoria or her depression. At no
point was she asked about her sexual orientation. And at no point was she asked
about any previous trauma, and so neither the therapists nor the doctors ever
learned that she’d been sexually abused as a child.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html?searchResultPosition=2
Psychiatrists and other doctors who deal with this bullshit are *all*
arch-proggies: they *completely* plug into proggie "identity politics." It
completely wrecks their claim to be "scientists." *Fuck* the "DSM-5" – this has
become completely politicized. Psychiatry and psychology, especially the latter
— always a 'weak' social science, aka poetry — are simply not scientific when it
comes to this stuff. They are taking sides, not scientifically, in a political
fight.
You keep saying that "gender affirming care" [gag-retch-puke] has been shown to
be the "best" way to treat "gender dysphoria." But this is something that is
only asserted, non-scientifically, by so-called "professionals" who have an
*ideological bias* to say that in the first place.
There is no "science" on this shit. It's pure politics. And meanwhile, *no one*
treating these people is ever trying to get to the root of *why* trannies think
they are of the opposite sex (not "gender"). "Gender identity" is not a
scientific concept. Sex is not "assigned" at birth — sex is *recorded* at birth.
"Intersex," an extremely rare condition, is not a "gender." But "intersex" is
not at the root of this bullshit about "gender identity." People who claim to
have a "gender identity" other than their *recorded* birth sex are either males
or females, not "intersex." Fuck off with "intersex" — this nonsense about
"transgender" has nothing to do with it.
A person who is born as male or female — that is, their *sex* — and who grows up
being treated as belonging to their *birth sex*, and who later develops the
belief — delusion — that they are of the "gender identity" *normally* associated
with the opposite sex, are suffering a mental illness.
I know you're gay, but why is "transgender" of such extreme importance to you?