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Cara C.'s avatar

Truth and words are important. There is no such thing as "transgender." There are women who believe they're in the wrong body and men who believe the same. These are mental issues. Trying to force people to accept these as truths is abusive. And Many of the "trans" activists engage in physical violence when others disagree (see Riley Gaines as but one example).

Anorectics believe they’re in an obese body. Should we agree and give them amphetamines so they can lose more weight? How about those suffering from bodily integrity disorder? Should we cut off their limbs? What about if I think I’m a cat– does a plastic surgeon add ears, whiskers, and a tail? Do we "affirm" these similar delusions?

No, we help those with delusions accept reality and integrate so that they can be healthy again. I have enormous sympathy for the torment that must accompany the sort of wrong-thinking that makes a person believe s/he is in the wrong body. I think we do a great disservice by not helping to overcome this and instead, only in this one politically-charged set of circumstances, affirming unreality.

The truth is a man who says he feels like a woman has no idea what feeling like a woman is because he’s a man. He can feel like what he IMAGINES a woman feels like; a woman (but it's mostly girls) can imagine she feels like a man, but there we are in the realm of fantasy. And what I find, as a feminist familiar with the “free to be you and me” movement, particularly ridiculous and offensive is that the most stereotypical characteristics are seized upon to proclaim one or one’s child is the opposite sex. A girl who prefers playing with trucks and tools to dolls must really be a boy and a boy who likes sparkly things and dolls must really be a girl. Maybe they’re just atypical or gay or will change as they grow up. But this rigid role enforcement via surgery and harmful, sterilizing drugs is a terrible thing.

Why are “transgender” men and women only happening in some especially woke western cultures? This isn’t a thing in Africa or poorer countries.

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Holly MathNerd's avatar

No. Men who lust after, love and have sex with men have nothing in common with men who wish to take synthetic hormones to grow breasts and have their genitals surgically inverted into facsimiles of female genitalia. It is a category error.

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