Transing ChildrenTRA activists and cowed enablers unite to suppress new book investigating transgenderism as social contagion among adolescent girls

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[–]reluctant_commenter 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thought this was a great comment in the comments section.

The fact that many young people and especially girls don’t know just how likely misdiagnosis through self-diagnosis is, makes the situation all the more tragic. Many transgender activists will concede that a therapeutic approach which extensive clinical hours before any definitive diagnosis is reached is always the best policy- but this doesn’t detract from oversized effect the worst of the activists have, in effectively ruling out a more nuanced stance on diagnosis and treatment.

There is so much misinformation, especially on tumblr and reddit, about so-called "self-diagnosis". Everyone thinks they are some kind of expert... yeah fuckin' right. Someone diagnosing themself with "headmates and DID" is lunacy in the same way that self-diagnosing oneself with cancer would be. You are not a health professional.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's the inherent consequence when they define gender to be something that only oneself can know. It was more than likely intentional, in my opinion, that they defined gender as something that cannot be diagnosed, cannot be known by anyone else without you telling them, and cannot be consistent. With cancer, someone with the right education and tools can find the cancerous cells and know that they are cancerous. With various mental disorders, even, which are the most difficult to deal with, the right brain imaging and other metrics can be used to make predictions if not full diagnoses. But this new definition of gender goes beyond that. It cannot be known by anyone at all, so self diagnosis is the only way left to determine if someone is trans.

It's too convenient to be coincidence.

[–]justagaydude123 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Self diagnosis has always been a problem for young people on the internet.

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree but it's only recently in history that we've had generations grow up with the internet. They probably learn to believe in self-diagnosis before anything remotely resembling correct information can be taught to them in school.

[–]QueenBread 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I mean. It's pretty clear it's a social contagion.

The seeds of it were put slowly over time, starting with the refusal of gender roles that increased over time in the last decades. Except that refusal was good, at first. Very good. It meant we had evolved past the need of strict gender roles, which should have been a relief to everyone. And yet now it turned into the mysoginist propaganda and regression we're seeing.

If I weren't so creeped out by the mass hysteria, and if I weren't worried about women's safety and rights being eroded, I could almost find this an interesting phenomenon to ponder.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They only supported the destruction of gender roles/steroetypes/expectations until they could begin using those items against everyone. By removing those harmful constructs, people started to be themselves and not let their gender determine what they do. Now, however, TRAs are turning that around and saying that gender expectations are in place again, except working in the reverse direction: what you do determines your gender now.

It's like when you need to pull out some furniture to change some wires behind it, just to push it back exactly where it was with a few changes behind the scenes.