Quote (Mondain @ Oct 7 2024 01:07am)
Humans are born a male or female or hermaphrodite.
If a human mentally convinces themself they are what they are not. That is a mental illness.
No feelings involved, No politics involved.
It is what it is, call it what it is.
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e- fixed typo
e2- I want to be explicitly clear, I don't hate these people.
I believe they are suffering and people should show some compassion for them.
Enabling their self destructive behavior is not helping.
I couldn't agree more with this.
Also, it's a mental illness because the worldwide recognized book of mental illnesses (DSM 5), mentions gender dysphoria as mental illness. A simple search on google to find the meaning: "a state of severe distress or unhappiness caused by feeling that one's gender identity does not match one's sex as registered at birth".
What's forcing me to push back is the fact that it gets shoved down my throat for me to change my view. There is a difference between thinking the same, or just accepting. I actually don't feel accepted for thinking differently.
Also, I have two kids and it's simply not normal to glorify hormone blockers to kids. It's not normal to have men shower with women. It's not normal to have people who are physically men, compete in women's sports and thus discriminating all the women participating.
I don't hate these people either. I hate what the extremists try to force. I hate how the media and governments handle it.
I even have a family member who transitioned WAY BEFORE it became "a hype" and even he thinks the current culture is being ridiculous.
This post was edited by Bart1989 on Nov 4 2024 09:00am