Message #45897

[tides2dust]

I hope others watch the documentary about the detransitioners and all of the medical malpractice that comes with gender affirming care. I think calling a teenager a she when she is a he is not an act of kindness but promoting mental illness. Unfortunately, the time we find ourselves in- it is very difficult to say this without receiving extreme prejudice and hateful backlash. Ironically, the person calling the transgender by their actual gender would be labeled a bigot and intolerant. If their influence is large enough they even risk financial consequence and "deplatforming."

It's a tough lesson for sure- and I'm not saying to go gung-ho guns blazing and start a personal war with people who wish to be referred to as the opposite sex. There are even people who get offended when you don't refer to them as an animal. There is a time and a place, and sometimes it's better to give the person what they want, even if it is ultimately prolonging their suffering.

I think it takes a great deal of courage to call a radicalized transgender by their appropriate gender. Such an act is not without its risk and consequences, as speaking the truth now days could mean being publicly shamed and ostracized by the so called outside world. But when you really consider the individuals long term happiness, and see that making the transition in genders turns you into a lifelong medical patient- it really makes you ask deeper questions.

And it would seem that the subject has become so politically polarizing that to ask such questions is considered a great offense, and society is robbed of an ability akin to critical thinking and civilized forum. Instead, it becomes mob-rule. Especially when we enable a still developing youth.