Gender dysphoria is real in feeling, but I think it helps to recognize masculine is more than male, and feminine is more than female, and each sex expresses both, while stereotypes harm both sexes, if it feels like you're supposed to be a certain way to be accepted.
From that fear, trans- appears as a fantasy solution, and modern medical…
Gender dysphoria is real in feeling, but I think it helps to recognize masculine is more than male, and feminine is more than female, and each sex expresses both, while stereotypes harm both sexes, if it feels like you're supposed to be a certain way to be accepted.
From that fear, trans- appears as a fantasy solution, and modern medical science enables the fantasy, and trans- is the correct word, crossing into something new, manufactured 3rd and 4th sexes (transwomen, transmen).
This fantasy reasonably scares many people, and so they invent terms trans-phobia which is correct, yet meant as "wrongness" - transphobes need to grow beyond their "binary bigotry" and accept everyone with love and acceptance. And some won't accept any more than they accept any nonconformers like gays and lesbians, and they'll scapegoat these new sexes for their own twisted reasons. And those scapegoaters really do risk the lives and safety of the new sexes, real danger.
And that danger tells empathetic people that we can't afford to ask our own questions, which will be felt as further harm to their invented sexes. And from the point of an "oppressed" class it can appear ANY resistance, like banning from women's sports, or women's spaces, is equally as harmful as people who might be physically violent. So biological woman are being compelled through "inclusionism" to accept the transwoman as interchangable, even if everyone should agree they are not the same and new harm is possible because trans-people are not just potential victims but also potential perpetrators. And it can seem like biological women have carved out their own safe-spaces for competition and cooperation that is being invaded by biological men under a new name. And self-ID expands that to absurdity so a purely biological male can call himself a trans-woman without even following the medical interventions of hormones and plastic surgery. So it makes sense many woman will consider this an outrage, and it is outrageous that the only respond pro-transactivists have for women is to call them transphobes who need to "grow" in this new reality that women have penises and can rape if they choose.
It all feels pretty senseness and self-righteousness exists on both sides, but it is the trans-activists side that can't face debate, who require all opposition to be dismissed as transphobes and not be allowed to speak in public spaces. Surely trans-activists know they could be wrong, and this could be a terrible fad, and they are the abusers, and someday they may feel regret and be unable to reverse their mistakes. But probably, knowing humans dislike cognitive dissonance so much, they will never "wake up" to their nightmare and if they lose their battle eventually, to them it will because "evil won" and they'll never stop believing that.
I have 2 kids both jumped into trans land after substantial trauma. (Multiple deaths, a move, caring for an unstable autistic adult)
One has come back to reality. The other has not. Kids Google their pain and (according to one of mine) get redirected to trans influencers who promise Gender Euphoria really quickly. Like 3-4 videos after depression.
Gender dysphoria is real in feeling, but I think it helps to recognize masculine is more than male, and feminine is more than female, and each sex expresses both, while stereotypes harm both sexes, if it feels like you're supposed to be a certain way to be accepted.
From that fear, trans- appears as a fantasy solution, and modern medical science enables the fantasy, and trans- is the correct word, crossing into something new, manufactured 3rd and 4th sexes (transwomen, transmen).
This fantasy reasonably scares many people, and so they invent terms trans-phobia which is correct, yet meant as "wrongness" - transphobes need to grow beyond their "binary bigotry" and accept everyone with love and acceptance. And some won't accept any more than they accept any nonconformers like gays and lesbians, and they'll scapegoat these new sexes for their own twisted reasons. And those scapegoaters really do risk the lives and safety of the new sexes, real danger.
And that danger tells empathetic people that we can't afford to ask our own questions, which will be felt as further harm to their invented sexes. And from the point of an "oppressed" class it can appear ANY resistance, like banning from women's sports, or women's spaces, is equally as harmful as people who might be physically violent. So biological woman are being compelled through "inclusionism" to accept the transwoman as interchangable, even if everyone should agree they are not the same and new harm is possible because trans-people are not just potential victims but also potential perpetrators. And it can seem like biological women have carved out their own safe-spaces for competition and cooperation that is being invaded by biological men under a new name. And self-ID expands that to absurdity so a purely biological male can call himself a trans-woman without even following the medical interventions of hormones and plastic surgery. So it makes sense many woman will consider this an outrage, and it is outrageous that the only respond pro-transactivists have for women is to call them transphobes who need to "grow" in this new reality that women have penises and can rape if they choose.
It all feels pretty senseness and self-righteousness exists on both sides, but it is the trans-activists side that can't face debate, who require all opposition to be dismissed as transphobes and not be allowed to speak in public spaces. Surely trans-activists know they could be wrong, and this could be a terrible fad, and they are the abusers, and someday they may feel regret and be unable to reverse their mistakes. But probably, knowing humans dislike cognitive dissonance so much, they will never "wake up" to their nightmare and if they lose their battle eventually, to them it will because "evil won" and they'll never stop believing that.
I have 2 kids both jumped into trans land after substantial trauma. (Multiple deaths, a move, caring for an unstable autistic adult)
One has come back to reality. The other has not. Kids Google their pain and (according to one of mine) get redirected to trans influencers who promise Gender Euphoria really quickly. Like 3-4 videos after depression.