Gender dysphoria would better be referred to as dissociation from biological reality. Treating the dissociation by separating people from their intrinsic biology only serves to solidify the dissociation, for them, & for us as a society and as a species.
Once you get into deconstructing the physically sexed body and pulling chromosomes, breasts, penises, and wombs apart from each other, with technology, you are entering a transhuman paradigm. This goes beyond expressing personality traits and sex specific propensities into deconstructing humanity.
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I've come to the conclusion that using different pronouns for someone suffering under the delusions of gender ideology, is like offering a drink to an alcoholic. It might make them feel good, it might be the social norm, but it enables them to destroy themselves and everyone around them.
First, they tell you they are in the wrong body.
When you reject this outlandish claim, you are told that men have lady brains.
When you point out science disproves this, you are told their mental health, their very lives, depends upon your pretence that they are the opposite sex.
When you ask why this has never been the case for the rest of human history, then you are called a fascist Nazi genocidal bigot.
It is all a lie.
From top to bottom.
Some people experience distress around their bodies, some people hate the expectations society places on them, no one is meant to be the opposite sex.
@AuthorLisaDunn "Drop it!" "STOP!" "Get. Out. Of. The TRASH!" Constant refrains here. We don't even talk about what's happening to the furniture. I know I'm just going to have to replace everything when they grow out of the wrestling phase (if ever).
“I thought that in the end I could become a man but all I became was a mutilated and abused version of myself”
Detransitioner Katie Lennon who transitioned at 18, including hormones, a double mastectomy, and a full hysterectomy at 21 years old, testifies in Concord, NH in favor of Parental Rights Bill SB272.
It's impossible for your brain to not "match" your sex. Brain structure can appear "atypical" for one's sex, but nothing is actually out of alignment. There's nothing to "fix." Male and female brains, like any other trait influenced by one's sex, are highly variable.
'Cis' is ideological language, signifying belief in the unfalsifiable concept of gender identity. You have a perfect right to believe in unprovable essences that may or may not match the sexed body, but the rest of us have a right to disagree, and to refuse to adopt your jargon.
Never grant the left the use of this Orewellian term, ‘misgendering.’
It is not misgendering someone to call them by their actual gender, and only a liar insists otherwise.
You are not "wrong" because you aren't identical to others of your sex.
You weren't 'born in the wrong body.'
You don't need "fixed."
You can be 100% yourself and still be a man or a woman.
You don't need to change anything.
You have your entire adult life to be horrified by what other people consider 'sex.'
I don't know why the left is so invested in making sure kids learn about it as early as possible.
What does it mean to BE trans?
It means nothing. Transition is something you do, not something you are. It’s just body modification.
The proper way to frame this is there are children with gender dysphoria, or more accurately, children with distress.
They need help, not a sex change.
There is no such thing as a transgender child.
Anyone care to join me in ignoring a certain social media “INFLUENCER” whose initials are DM?
Being a woman is much more than wearing lots of makeup, doing up one’s hair, wearing skirts, and frolicking about like a cartoon princess.
Women are not caricatures.
Transgender kids are not under attack. Happy, healthy kids are under attack. You'd have them remain defenseless against radical gender ideology, abusive parents, and unscrupulous surgeons. But we're passing laws that will put a shield between children and their would-be butchers.