Another bad idea: "This is not to say that we should cause pain. We should not. There is enough of it in the world without anyone ever having to purposely induce it."
Here we have a blindly reasoned demand for pacifism and passivism. This standard of ethics could easily be exploited by street savages and queergroomers to coerce acquiescence to any and every depredaton. Suppose, for instance, that some angry ghetto rat charges toward you while you're walking along a sidewalk. (Fyi, this is a real example.) Should you steadfastly refuse to spray the ghetto rat's face with an acidic solution just because there is "enough of it [pain]" in the world already.? You may think so if you're a twit, so then comes the pain of being attacked by the g.r., who has no doubt failed to experience adequate deterrence throughout its life. What do you suppose that your pacifism has just made more likely if the g.r. sees you again a week later?
Your pain could have easily been avoided by imposing the painful aversive stimulus upon the g.r.'s eyes and nasal cavity. So doing is likely to prevent you from experiencing pain in the short term. Again, in the short term, the total amt of pain may be about the same whichever option (spray or don't spray) you choose. Over the long term, spraying the worthless savage could reduce total pain because the g.r. will be more like to restrain itself. So here we ought to cause pain, or rather, to transfer expected pain from one being to another. (Just be mindful of an arms escalation, which is why I had a knife and warned the g.r. to run if it didn't want to bleed, too.)
Here is some more foolishness "The extreme excess of pain caused by man’s inhumanity to man must stop, and should be prevented whenever possible."
Pethaps the alleged extreme excess of pain is just what sissies, crybabies, and others deserve until they correct their bad attitudes and refain from bad action.
Ridiculous Assertion: "Further, while there is little to no value in physical pain"
On the contrary, physical pain is so important that a person who cannot feel it or who feels it very little, because of (say) some genetic defect or abuse of pain meds, would ruin its body with injuries. Most of us are conditioned during childhood to be wary of hazards like heights, sharpened edges, bugs with stingers, hot objects, rough pavement, and so on. Painful experiences with one or more of them motivates a bit of risk-reward thinking when confronted with these things. Sure, there's a risk of breaking an arm and scraping a few sq. inches of skin off our knees if we crash while biking. The benefits of riding the bike, however, can be obtained by proceeding with caution when learning how to ride. A child who cannot feel pain, however, will not have experienced falls and scrapes as aversive stimuli from which to learn the right lesson about prudence. This one is like a healthy child who systematically underestimates risks or overestimates benefits, and I think we all understand that this sort of child is likely to experience more injuries and a shorter life than average.
This makes perfect sense to me. I wish I could share it with parents I know who are going through all of this. It's pretty sad the bar is so low that my 82 yr old friend said I must be doing a great job as a mother. At least my daughter still wants to be a girl. sheesh.
You describe false kindness, false compassion, false mercy and false love. When kindness, love and compassion cannot be questioned or defined, when they are not held up to a template or a source for comparison, they can be perverted. Love is Love. Kind is Kind. Compassion is Compassion. Choose Kindness. "Kindness is Everything." (Really? That's nonsense!!! But its printed on yard signs in front of nearly every home in some Seattle neighborhoods) Before Kindness was everything; Religion, Culture and Tradition provided us with our templates and definitions. Without any guardrails or patterns to follow we can come up with perversion.
When I asked a gender clinician what the difference between the body dysmorphia experienced by someone with anorexia vs someone with gender dysphoria, she explained that they are very similar but gender dysphoria has a gendered flavor. So basically it’s the same body dysmorphia but for some reason they think the gender version has more validity and deserves affirmation. It is all based on the assumptions that sex is a spectrum, and it is separate from gender and gender identity. So made up nonsense.
A very dangerous cult in that they are forcing everyone else to believe in lies! If you tell the simple truth that no man can be a woman.. what every child knows... you are vilified, canceled, fired from your job! Where else has something like that happened? North Korea, Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany etc. ..
In 50 years people will write masters and PhD work on how this went from less than 1% of the population to over 5% in less than a decade. The biggest lie is that this is some natural reversion to the mean. It's not.
Absolutely spot on. Thank you for your compassion and clarity amid such a lot of cold confusion and carelessness. You could say the sex-change cultists practice a 'kind' to be cruel approach, the very opposite of what these young people and their parents desperately need, and all to feed the cruel money monster too.
"We have actually made it illegal to be nice to people suffering from gender dysphoria." To my mind this is the biggest problem. It's prevented all the counselors, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists who could work to help resolve these issues from even considering helping these teens and young adults. There's just too much liability socially and professionally. It's a massive chilling effect.
I find that all of the essays that I have read here on PITT are very well thought out and have excellent writing skills. I am somewhat amazed that in this day and age of lousy essays and postings on other public forums that the PITT folks always come through with topnotch informative writing!
There is one minor detail I would add to this post, would be: If one were to do a student's homework for them, they may get excellent grades on their "homework", but they would usually fail when they took a test.
I gave birth at 36; so if my eggs were stored at $300 per year time 32 years would cost $9,600, and that does NOT include inflation. Most people who work do not get free insurance. If you are self employed, private insurance is very expensive. Most people will be forced to pay closer to $4,000 annually.
I feel very sorry for you for "buying in" to the transgender ideology that REJECTS GOD. God has NOT rejected you and wants you to get healthy and follow Him.
There really needs to be an abolishment of the term "gender dysphoria" because in the context of kids being in distress it only legitimizes the idea that it's their gender issues that are front and center, when actually it's other underlying issues and discomfort that's to be addressed primarily, rather than the other way around. Kids are told from a very young age, in school and online - all around them it's rammed down their throats - that it's possible that all their problems boil down to their mismatched body and mind, which is an entirely false and abusive idea to give them and that needs to stop. And what are they told that makes them even think there's a mismatch? Regressive gender stereotypes we thought we got past long ago! So if you're a girl but like sports or feel entirely uncomfortable in a skirt and don't fit in with the popular mean girls you're told maybe you're actually a boy. And if you're a boy and have the slightest effeminate leanings or preferences for Barbies over GI Joe then you must really be a girl. This is incredibly regressive, and a real batshit whacked thing to think. The fact that adults who have likely experienced at some point in their lives a moment of questioning if they're attractive, if they're comfortable in their changing pre-teen bodies, etc., buy into and push this shit on kids blows my mind. But we need to stop framing kids' every mental health struggle, often entirely normal part of growing up, and every discomfort with themselves as a condition to be diagnosed. And the diagnosis should never be gender dysphoria because all that does is legitimize putting all the blame and therefore frame the solution - the only solution and cure - as diving into "transition," which is in no way an acceptable or even possible idea given that unlike what kids are hearing every day by the well-funded groomer industry they actually can't change sex. We must face the fact that all attempts at such lead to massively poor outcomes, as opposed to teaching kids that their body is exactly the right body, and it's beautiful as it is. Let's stop calling trans a condition, and gender dysphoria a symptom, and let kids grow up believing there is no need to step out of their bodies or in any way disassociate the truth and reality of them.
There is big money behind the trans agenda, so this is going to have to be fought in courts and school board meetings, etc. The end goal of this being to confuse and rob the youth of their fertility through puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones, to further the eugenics/depopulation agenda. That is what has been pushing this insanity forward.
all i gotta say is "pasta la vista"
Another bad idea: "This is not to say that we should cause pain. We should not. There is enough of it in the world without anyone ever having to purposely induce it."
Here we have a blindly reasoned demand for pacifism and passivism. This standard of ethics could easily be exploited by street savages and queergroomers to coerce acquiescence to any and every depredaton. Suppose, for instance, that some angry ghetto rat charges toward you while you're walking along a sidewalk. (Fyi, this is a real example.) Should you steadfastly refuse to spray the ghetto rat's face with an acidic solution just because there is "enough of it [pain]" in the world already.? You may think so if you're a twit, so then comes the pain of being attacked by the g.r., who has no doubt failed to experience adequate deterrence throughout its life. What do you suppose that your pacifism has just made more likely if the g.r. sees you again a week later?
Your pain could have easily been avoided by imposing the painful aversive stimulus upon the g.r.'s eyes and nasal cavity. So doing is likely to prevent you from experiencing pain in the short term. Again, in the short term, the total amt of pain may be about the same whichever option (spray or don't spray) you choose. Over the long term, spraying the worthless savage could reduce total pain because the g.r. will be more like to restrain itself. So here we ought to cause pain, or rather, to transfer expected pain from one being to another. (Just be mindful of an arms escalation, which is why I had a knife and warned the g.r. to run if it didn't want to bleed, too.)
Here is some more foolishness "The extreme excess of pain caused by man’s inhumanity to man must stop, and should be prevented whenever possible."
Pethaps the alleged extreme excess of pain is just what sissies, crybabies, and others deserve until they correct their bad attitudes and refain from bad action.
Ridiculous Assertion: "Further, while there is little to no value in physical pain"
On the contrary, physical pain is so important that a person who cannot feel it or who feels it very little, because of (say) some genetic defect or abuse of pain meds, would ruin its body with injuries. Most of us are conditioned during childhood to be wary of hazards like heights, sharpened edges, bugs with stingers, hot objects, rough pavement, and so on. Painful experiences with one or more of them motivates a bit of risk-reward thinking when confronted with these things. Sure, there's a risk of breaking an arm and scraping a few sq. inches of skin off our knees if we crash while biking. The benefits of riding the bike, however, can be obtained by proceeding with caution when learning how to ride. A child who cannot feel pain, however, will not have experienced falls and scrapes as aversive stimuli from which to learn the right lesson about prudence. This one is like a healthy child who systematically underestimates risks or overestimates benefits, and I think we all understand that this sort of child is likely to experience more injuries and a shorter life than average.
This makes perfect sense to me. I wish I could share it with parents I know who are going through all of this. It's pretty sad the bar is so low that my 82 yr old friend said I must be doing a great job as a mother. At least my daughter still wants to be a girl. sheesh.
You describe false kindness, false compassion, false mercy and false love. When kindness, love and compassion cannot be questioned or defined, when they are not held up to a template or a source for comparison, they can be perverted. Love is Love. Kind is Kind. Compassion is Compassion. Choose Kindness. "Kindness is Everything." (Really? That's nonsense!!! But its printed on yard signs in front of nearly every home in some Seattle neighborhoods) Before Kindness was everything; Religion, Culture and Tradition provided us with our templates and definitions. Without any guardrails or patterns to follow we can come up with perversion.
When I asked a gender clinician what the difference between the body dysmorphia experienced by someone with anorexia vs someone with gender dysphoria, she explained that they are very similar but gender dysphoria has a gendered flavor. So basically it’s the same body dysmorphia but for some reason they think the gender version has more validity and deserves affirmation. It is all based on the assumptions that sex is a spectrum, and it is separate from gender and gender identity. So made up nonsense.
It's part of why the TRA hate parents. The parents remember the before
You hit the nail on the head!
If you want to read a major source of this stuff- and the lies- it's here
https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
All excellent and reasonable, but yes, you are missing something (not really)!
This is a cult and insane ideology. Period.
A very dangerous cult in that they are forcing everyone else to believe in lies! If you tell the simple truth that no man can be a woman.. what every child knows... you are vilified, canceled, fired from your job! Where else has something like that happened? North Korea, Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany etc. ..
In 50 years people will write masters and PhD work on how this went from less than 1% of the population to over 5% in less than a decade. The biggest lie is that this is some natural reversion to the mean. It's not.
The first job of parents is safeguarding their children from outside harms. Unfortunately, now, parents are often the perpetrators of harm: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-parents And relationships alter brain development in mammals. Those comparing us to clownfish are forgetting that mammals aren't fish or reptiles: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/are-you-a-mammal-or-a-reptile
I couldn’t agree with you more.
I’ve been trying to convince my 23 year old daughter of exactly what you’ve so eloquently expressed.
I may copy and paste this to her. Simply to point out there are others who share my opinion and feelings.
Thank you for your post.
I would bet that a vast majority shares your opinion, but most are afraid to say so! We have been mowed into submission of a very dangerous ideology!
Absolutely spot on. Thank you for your compassion and clarity amid such a lot of cold confusion and carelessness. You could say the sex-change cultists practice a 'kind' to be cruel approach, the very opposite of what these young people and their parents desperately need, and all to feed the cruel money monster too.
"We have actually made it illegal to be nice to people suffering from gender dysphoria." To my mind this is the biggest problem. It's prevented all the counselors, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists who could work to help resolve these issues from even considering helping these teens and young adults. There's just too much liability socially and professionally. It's a massive chilling effect.
I find that all of the essays that I have read here on PITT are very well thought out and have excellent writing skills. I am somewhat amazed that in this day and age of lousy essays and postings on other public forums that the PITT folks always come through with topnotch informative writing!
There is one minor detail I would add to this post, would be: If one were to do a student's homework for them, they may get excellent grades on their "homework", but they would usually fail when they took a test.
I gave birth at 36; so if my eggs were stored at $300 per year time 32 years would cost $9,600, and that does NOT include inflation. Most people who work do not get free insurance. If you are self employed, private insurance is very expensive. Most people will be forced to pay closer to $4,000 annually.
I feel very sorry for you for "buying in" to the transgender ideology that REJECTS GOD. God has NOT rejected you and wants you to get healthy and follow Him.
There really needs to be an abolishment of the term "gender dysphoria" because in the context of kids being in distress it only legitimizes the idea that it's their gender issues that are front and center, when actually it's other underlying issues and discomfort that's to be addressed primarily, rather than the other way around. Kids are told from a very young age, in school and online - all around them it's rammed down their throats - that it's possible that all their problems boil down to their mismatched body and mind, which is an entirely false and abusive idea to give them and that needs to stop. And what are they told that makes them even think there's a mismatch? Regressive gender stereotypes we thought we got past long ago! So if you're a girl but like sports or feel entirely uncomfortable in a skirt and don't fit in with the popular mean girls you're told maybe you're actually a boy. And if you're a boy and have the slightest effeminate leanings or preferences for Barbies over GI Joe then you must really be a girl. This is incredibly regressive, and a real batshit whacked thing to think. The fact that adults who have likely experienced at some point in their lives a moment of questioning if they're attractive, if they're comfortable in their changing pre-teen bodies, etc., buy into and push this shit on kids blows my mind. But we need to stop framing kids' every mental health struggle, often entirely normal part of growing up, and every discomfort with themselves as a condition to be diagnosed. And the diagnosis should never be gender dysphoria because all that does is legitimize putting all the blame and therefore frame the solution - the only solution and cure - as diving into "transition," which is in no way an acceptable or even possible idea given that unlike what kids are hearing every day by the well-funded groomer industry they actually can't change sex. We must face the fact that all attempts at such lead to massively poor outcomes, as opposed to teaching kids that their body is exactly the right body, and it's beautiful as it is. Let's stop calling trans a condition, and gender dysphoria a symptom, and let kids grow up believing there is no need to step out of their bodies or in any way disassociate the truth and reality of them.
There is big money behind the trans agenda, so this is going to have to be fought in courts and school board meetings, etc. The end goal of this being to confuse and rob the youth of their fertility through puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones, to further the eugenics/depopulation agenda. That is what has been pushing this insanity forward.
wow-well said
Well written, logical and true. Something that is sorely lacking in our modern society.