TRANSGENDERLionel Shriver dissects transgenderism - Trans is the new anorexia

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[–]LtGreenCo 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

both are “rooted in the belief that if you change your body, you will no longer hate yourself”

I'll tack onto that "and an unjustifiable belief that your body is wrong"

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think it's really surprising a lot of girls are uncomfortable with puberty and would rather not deal with it, the idea that becoming a man instead is possible preys on those feelings.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When teaching freshman composition in New York colleges in the mid-Eighties, I picked up a peculiar pattern in one-on-one conferences with my female students. With improbable frequency, they’d confide that they were anorexic. The term had only entered the popular lexicon about 10 years earlier, and public awareness of the perturbing derangement had been given a huge boost by the pop singer Karen Carpenter’s death in 1983. Yet not all these 18-year-old students were disturbingly underweight. It took me a minute to get it. They aspired to be anorexic. Anorexia was a prestige diagnosis.

While some of those students may have been merely flirting with the condition, they were canaries in a very dark coal mine. All too many of their peers were undertaking life-threatening calorie restriction in great earnest. Anorexia was already known to be the very deadliest of all psychiatric ailments.

Worth a read.

[–]QueenBread 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, not true. Trans is not the new anorexia. Fat greasy incels who put on a dress to leer in women's bathrooms, or failed mediocre sport dudes who want to compete versus women, or homophobic self-hating gay men and lesbian women, have nothing at all to do with anorexia.

But, young girls who turn trans are indeed a good comparison with anorexia. In both cases it's an attempt to destroy their femininity and it's a social contagion. Let's always keep in mind that a whooping 90% of people who actually undergo transition are teenage girls. Yet the news never talk about that because they don't care. The 10% of transwomen are what makes the news.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Read the column.

It’s talking about teenage girls.