For some, trans is just sexual perversion. For others, it’s psychological disorder.
The latter have been conditioned to believe a lie that is existential to their very being. The former are simply exploiting society’s misguided attempt to accommodate that lie. But it’s a lie that the majority of us will never go along with, so it’s a nonnegotiable culture wedge.
Gender dysphoria is a psychiatric condition. It is psychological disorder. Disorder of the mind. So “gender affirming care” isn’t actually being used to treat gender dysphoria. It’s not being used to *treat* mental disorder. It’s being used to *affirm* mental disorder; to support it; to maintain it; to allow it to establish itself. It would be more aptly called “gender dysphoria-affirming care”. And it’s not actually care at all. And by affirming mental disorder, instead of treating mental disorder, we are failing those with mental disorder, and we are surrendering reality to people that are literally removed from it.
Normalizing mental illness is itself a mentally ill undertaking. We don’t affirm things like addiction & depression. We don’t affirm the voices in a schizophrenic’s head. So why are we affirming gender dysphoria? And why are we affirming it with treatments & procedures that cause physical harm & irreversible, life-long changes, including sterilization? Lobotomy was a fairly common practice that is now obsolete. Society determined that physical remedies to psychological problems were largely unethical. But here we are, affirming mental illness with physically harmful procedures again. Why? And why on earth are we doing it to children?! Should we revisit lobotomy to treat other kinds of psychiatric conditions in children now too?
This issue goes deeper than the duplicity of “gender affirming care” and the irrationality of affirming mental illness though. It’s an instrument of civilizational insurrection.
Our biology is essential to the proliferation & survival of our species. That’s why the biological relationship between men & women has been the framework of human civilization— for all time. It’s humanity’s most fundamental truth, and we’re having to defend it now, b/c progressives, through their support of trans ideology, are denying it.
A society relies on order. Order in a free society relies on a common truth. Our biology is our common truth. That’s why it’s been the framework of human civilization for all time. It affords us the most practical categories by which to organize ourselves in society— the fixed categories that most consistently correspond with the objective truth in the physical reality we all have to share. In other words, it’s the objective truth that most consistently applies to the most of us. B/c the overwhelming majority of us have XX or XY chromosomes. We’re either male or female. Intersex is where that consistency breaks down, but that’s still biological, which will always be exponentially more consistent than categories based on gender identity.
Replacing biology with psychology, in terms of how we organize ourselves in society, and prioritizing what we feel like being, over our actual being— is one of the worst ideas in human history. The fundamental problem being that the human imagination is fluid & boundless, and doesn’t always comport with objective truth.
If society embraced this ideology, our common truth would be that we have no common truth. There could be as many possible categories as there are people, and an individual’s relationship to those categories could be fluid and constantly redefined, based on how the individual feels at any given moment. The individual would define the terms of their identity, so the meaning of foundational terms in our language would become subjective & fluid. We’d be replacing order with chaos. It would be a disaster, and would eventually require an arduous course correction, assuming it didn’t topple the existing system first.
This issue is the literal baseline of credibility.