Another personal story.
In my 20's after breaking up with Jessica I tried going on Tinder. I didn't know I matched with a transgender person until they told me. But I didn't let it bother me, I was open to giving our connection a shot. The date ended up being purely sexual. We kissed, but I wasn't comfortable going much further than that. During our time together I learned this person was born male, but his grandmother gave him/her hormone treatment since the age of 2 years old. In other words, someone else decided for them they would be a transgender.
I think it's because the story they were told is, "she saw me playing with barbies and I told her I was a girl."
Something like that. But it kind of touches up on your point. Someone forcing something on another. And being witness to unique experiences.
I'm looking for this documentary which also explains the huge profits made in this transgender movement which is not actually a new movement. Transgender ideologies go back thousands of years. What does seem new, is the weaponization of the issue.
I should also add a study just came out from California showing transgendered men are two times more likely to commit suicide after undergoing irreversible surgery on the genitals.
So yes, I do think there is a mental illness not being addressed. We put these things in the limelight for profits sake not for the individual. There's little room for one to go through the motions without the external pressures found online, in schools, on tv, on social media, through doctors.
I have one more personal story to share. Growing up, my Uncle had two sets of children. The first set were my age. Years later he had another set. The first set we all played games. Amy was the biggest tomboy, she could outrun and even outwrestle me. She went on to play basketball and could have taken her career into college if she wanted. Instead she decided to study sport medicine and wound up getting married. I had never seen her in a dress until her wedding day. Before then it was baggy clothes.
Now, in the same county- the second set of children grew up years after us. But in a environment where the transgender movement was taking political center stage. It became so important that they started enforcing policies- and if teachers in the public school saw signs they were encouraged to whisper in the developing childs ear. So my cousin was told by her teachers she must be a boy because she wears a hoodie, likes boy things, and has an unusual relationship with a girl. There's nothing unusual about it, they were just friends. Someone told her it was unusual. And the kids were no better, the adults were teaching them what issues they needed to be concerned with. They really confused her, she started identifying as a boy and chopped all her hair off. The school essentially groomed her. Some schools went so far as to allowing students to purchase and wear transgender clothes- bras and the like, behind their parents back. It also seems like a money maker. Clothes specifically for transgenders??
So now you see why I say I think we have a mental illness issue. Some of the drugs they use on the transgender community are the same drugs they give sex offenders, and some of the drugs only amplify mental illness or propagate disease.
We all have carried or fought a disease in some form or the other, so it is not meant to be an insult. A disease I have witnessed in the West is one that steamrolls over individuals in the name of profit or personal advancement.
As Van Mol explained, there is no long-term evidence that transitioning decreases suicide, and, in fact, it has permanent consequences, ranging from infertility to blood clots.
He further shared that pharmaceutical companies are profiting greatly from transgender patients who increase their market share. With so much potential for profit, it’s no wonder that the scientific data is being suppressed or ignored. Emphasizing the importance of addressing underlying issues that are often tied to gender dysphoria, Van Mol encouraged parents and children to pursue “watchful waiting.”
Parents, too, are concerned about the uncritical gender-affirming approach. Despite urging from a pediatrician to begin transitioning her daughter, Brynne—one of the multiple parents interviewed—shared why she is pushing back:
The reason I’m being difficult in this is not because I don’t love her. It’s because I love her so much that I am willing to take on this whole ideology just to protect her from potentially making an irreversible decision in her future, and even if that means she wants to hate me and she doesn’t want to talk to me, I love her enough that I’m willing to keep fighting for her.
The documentary also touches on the political and social pressures coming from the U.S. Supreme Court to social media platforms.
Natasha Chart, the former executive director of the liberal feminist organization Women’s Liberation Front, told of the threat that the gender ideology behind the gender-affirming model poses to women’s rights. This is why Women’s Liberation Front filed a brief in the Supreme Court case Bostock v. Clayton County in defense of the funeral home’s right to enforce a sex-specific dress code.
“A man cannot be a woman,” declared Chart in footage from the Supreme Court rally. “There are doctors who will go to work today and … who will put 14-year-old girls into menopause and give troubled young girls cosmetic mastectomies.”
Others have been canceled after speaking out that a man cannot become a woman or vice versa. The documentary featured Canadian journalist and writer Meghan Murphy, who was kicked off Twitter after saying men are not women.
https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/new-documentary-highlights-the-harm-gender-affirming-health-care-model-childrenHere's a great documentary that might allow us to look deeper from people who have transitioned and de-transitioned... It's called
"Affirmation Generation"
It opens up with a girl saying the reason she thought she was a boy is because she had a dream and saw herself as one, in the dream she was so happy. When she woke up she realized she was a girl.
This is interesting to me, because it might indicate past life connection or some nonordinary state of consciousness.
Another point not made, and maybe never made are the spiritual implications behind someone who exploring the energies of masculine and feminine. Like- past lives, practices for understanding and transcending duality. These things can be explored holistically, but I don't see the rush in the movement as holistic at all. Again, I see it as enabling or creating/propagating mental illness.
Here's the documentary:
https://rumble.com/v2n9n88-affirmation-generation-2023.html"Affirmation Generation features the stories of six young detransitioners (three men and three women). They sought medical help but instead were irreversibly harmed by "gender-affirming care."
