Your honest opinion on transgenders?

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[–]68plus57 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I used to think it's a rare condition which might be helped by the sex change surgery. Although I never was particularly convinced sex change surgeries are ethical, I didn't find it an important issue.

With the travesty this whole thing evolved to, I don't know what to think anymore. The longer I hear 'arguments' of the so called 'gender affirming' crowd the the more I suspect sex dysphoria might not even be a real medical condition ever worth surgical intervention.

That saying the transgender boom is too big and too bizarre - there must be some structural societal reasons for it to appear so popular in the West. It's seems so dominant even 'social contagion', 'fashion' or 'big pharma conspiracy' theories actually aren't that convincing.

I also don't know how should I treat the fact there are very clearly different types of trans people: the ones who strive to 'transition' and the ones who only want to be treated like they were different sex with no other effort on their part. I'm not sure whom I find more absurd.

But I don't hate trans people. Stll I'm afraid I hate their agenda. I find it incompatible with modern society, egregiously religious, regressive and authoritarian - they are everything (and much more) I despised in Christianity when I was young and tried to free myself from its spell.

[–]MarkJefferson 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That saying the transgender boom is too big and too bizarre - there must be some structural societal reasons for it to appear so popular in the West. It's seems so dominant even 'social contagion', 'fashion' or 'big pharma conspiracy' theories actually aren't that convincing.

I honestly think many more people than will ever be admitted, don't like the gender roles and expectations that are at the heart of this phenomenon. But everywhere else in the world the human reactions to it are ruthlessly suppressed other than in the West. So it just seems like a Western-made problem. But here it is just given the time and room to breathe. And the oxygen to burn. The deep dissatisfaction was already there in society; Someone simply lit a match.

Continuing the analogy, one group just wants to watch it burn without mitigation. They believe it will eventually burn itself out. And it will... but with consequences. The other group wants to put it out and keep it from getting big again by dumping water on it whenever they notice it igniting. Few want to put in the work or stick out their neck to remove the pile of fuel that feeds it, though. Because whenever someone gets close, they'll be accused of either intending to accelerate the flames or snuff them.