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[–]buttbuttinator 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I know that British TRAs are doing this (thanks to the UK government officially repudiating the "born in the wrong body" line), but has it spread to the US yet? While their DARVO bullshit pisses me off, I can't help but feel like it spells the end for them when they are forced to claim that they actually don't believe their core tenet and actually that's what their enemies believe.

[–]MarkTwainiac 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the USA, the ideology hasn't gotten as much pushback yet. But it seems some leading GITs (gender ideology tyrants) in the US have gotten wind that the tide might be turning and so are jumping on the backpedaling bandwagon and trying to distance themselves from the "born in the wrong body" spiel:

https://www.pflagatl.org/telling-trans-stories-beyond-born-in-the-wrong-body/

This TIM GIT in Canada was objecting to the "born in the wrong body" rhetoric in 2015:

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/07/not-born-in-the-wrong-body/

But meanwhile in the USA, kids are being sent to special summer camps for the express purpose of gettin fed "born into the wrong body" propaganda:

https://youtu.be/N90m5B2jm80

Gender Spectrum, a leader in teaching genderist woo to kids in the USA, recommends on its website that youngsters learn about "gender dysphoria" by reading an article from Vox and another from Vice. https://www.genderspectrum.org/articles/youth-faqs

In both articles, deeply unhappy individuals show that they are unfortunately quite mentally ill, obsessed with their looks and preoccupied with how they think other people see them, and always on the lookout for perceived insults and injuries that can destroy their day. Sometimes, however, these perceived insults and injuries come from their own minds' awareness of material reality.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/gender-dysphoria/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/we-asked-people-to-illustrate-what-their-gender-dysphoria-fe

Jonny says: "Gender dysphoria is sadness. It's paranoia, depression, anxiety, envy, disgust, anger; it's all of the emotions no one likes to feel. Gender dysphoria is changing 10 times before leaving the house and still not feeling comfortable in your own skin. Gender dysphoria is not wanting to get out of bed. Gender dysphoria is feeling hopeless and lost.

"There is nothing beautiful about gender dysphoria, it is the ugliest and saddest I've ever felt and I would never wish these feelings upon even my most hated enemies."

Anonymous says: "Dysphoria for me is feeling like a tangled mess. Everything is tangled, and I feel disgusting in my skin. I hear the ringing in my ears, my head won’t stop buzzing, and my face burns with embarrassment because of how round my face is or because how short I am or because my hips are wider than a boy’s. I feel like crying, and I hate myself and the body I was born with. I keep reminding myself how feminine I sound or how no one will ever use my preferred pronouns because of my appearance. I wish I had been born into a different body. I wish I didn’t feel so tangled."

Car-oh says: "When seeing my dysphoria run through my body I try my hardest to detach myself from social conditioning. I'm not supposed to be wearing lipstick or eyeliner while having cute little hairs on my chin and lips. I must be quiet. I must be a magical femme who does all the emotional labor. My masculinity and I can only meet in privacy.

"My emotional labor ends up being split between femme labor and surviving a white-cis-hetero world while being a brown non-binary trans person. That's a lot. The binary is a lot. My masculinity is as feminine as it can get. I can't and won't dare separate my masculinity away from my femininity ... It's difficult to water myself when everything outside of myself, I can't control. Only thing I can control is my self-care.

"So what do I do!? I hold onto some lavender that I gently put on my palms. I whisper affirmations and inhale the lavender. I let my body experience the emotions it needs to feel better, to grow, nurture itself. I wear my emotions while simultaneously making myself as visible as possible externally. I won't dare be invisible when I continue to exist under these painful circumstances. I will celebrate my sadness by crying more, by loving myself more radically. I won't dare let anyone condition and normalize their phobias and gender roles onto me. I will dare exist as a magical Trans Non-Binary femmeboi. I will dare question the binary."

Wiley says: "I wake up in the morning and run my hands over my body. It never feels exactly the way it should. Looking in the mirror, on the days I'm brave enough to do it, can shatter my exquisitely constructed sense of myself.

"My clothes are never, ever right. Showering is the most jarring part of my day — when I soap my thighs and chest and do my damnedest to hold on to the mental picture I have of who I really am and not the baggy, chubby, soft version of myself I feel under the running water."

I think we in the USA have a long way to go before we begin to uproot this pernicious ideology that's been used to encourage deeply unhappy, unwell young people to adopt ideas and take steps that in the long run will most likely just make them more unhappy & unwell.