That is exactly what this is-an ideology bereft of reality. Instead of treating this like a mental illness that manifests as a rejection of one's body, it is showered with praise as an act of 'authenticity' and living as one's true self-albeit with a massive infusion of drugs and surgical intervention.
The suicide rate of post-op transgenders is extremely high: "The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers."
Ultimately this stuff reminds me of the Aztecs performing human sacrifices to their Gods, and I have no doubt that this is how it will be looked at by historians in the future.
The truth is that this particular social issue is far more important than most. It has the ability to end families, and frankly destroy society as a whole taken to its logical end point.
One can get tattoos removed. One can cut or grow out their hair. Change clothes. Alter behaviors. You can’t regrow a severed penis or refertilize sterilized gonads. A vagina effected by testosterone will not expand back out and regain the ability to lubricate.
That is exactly what this is-an ideology bereft of reality. Instead of treating this like a mental illness that manifests as a rejection of one's body, it is showered with praise as an act of 'authenticity' and living as one's true self-albeit with a massive infusion of drugs and surgical intervention.
The suicide rate of post-op transgenders is extremely high: "The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers."
https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence
Ultimately this stuff reminds me of the Aztecs performing human sacrifices to their Gods, and I have no doubt that this is how it will be looked at by historians in the future.
Well said! It is a dangerous ideology, as is any that elevates subjective “experience” over objective reality.
The truth is that this particular social issue is far more important than most. It has the ability to end families, and frankly destroy society as a whole taken to its logical end point.
One can get tattoos removed. One can cut or grow out their hair. Change clothes. Alter behaviors. You can’t regrow a severed penis or refertilize sterilized gonads. A vagina effected by testosterone will not expand back out and regain the ability to lubricate.