Why is it when a patent comes in claiming their toddler is trans no psychiatrist thinks it's the parent who needs treatment?

submitted by jet199 from (open.spotify.com)

all 16 comments
sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

It's a new iteration of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, but this time the mentally ill parent (and, like the more familiar type of Munchausen, it's nearly always the mother) has the protective cover of LGBT+ to work behind. So even though a lot of people can see plainly what's going on in such situations, actually calling it out is risky since it could lead to them getting mobbed.

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I think of trans kids I think of the black lady from insidious. A little boy who’s deranged abusive mother forced them to identify as a girl until they believed it then cut their cock and balls off also the psychological trauma turned them into a murderer

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't forget a healthy dose of "feminism to me means I get my way all the time" leading to them thinking "but I wanted to have a pretty little girl who'd grow up to be my best friend, and it's so UNFAIR I had to give birth to a yucky boy with boy germs...well, that's an easy fix..."

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

who'd grow up to be my best friend

Or just as likely "who'd grow up to be the beautiful, popular, alpha bitch/queen bee that I always wanted to be but never was."

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Por que no los dos? The real answer is "the pretty daughter grows up to be your best friend AND the beautiful, popular, alpha bitch/queen bee that they always wanted to be, which means they drag their best friend mommy to get to be the "cool mom" who gets to hang out with the cool girl clique in high school, get them beer and pot to be part of the gang, let them party at her house so she's invited and gets that high school quarterback dick in its prime instead of 20 years from now when the guy's pathetic." It's all connected!

[–]thomastheglassexpert 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Long years ago I married a psychotic religious whacko and didn't know that I did. I was too young and stupid. A clue came to me when she would wrap up our kids and layers of warm clothing and I told her "we live in San Diego and the kids are too hot. They are not cold YOU are". It's called projection and whatever fantasy her mind told her is true = well then it's true. And no. Her religious psychotic brain conjured up all sorts of evil she would lash me with because "God told me so". Same with people who project their sexual fantasy's on little kids. Usually I would think nothing wrong with the kid it's the adult with the perversion.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep I think it's the same shit. Only difference is today since religious identification is less, what's the word, cool? In? Hip? Than it used to be it's less common for the psychopaths to be religious. I think part of that is because it's not really effective anymore to control people by claiming that "God wants you to do what I want"

LGBTQ stuff has settled into that "it's evil to make criticisms of people" spot of society that religious ideas often used to fill so that's where the psychopaths have gone.

[–]grassfed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Americans scream the Soviet Union was a huge success and the government should ban styrofoam because customers would be happy to return to restaurants and return their ceramic plates after they use the drive-thru and finish their meals.

[–]alladd 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Whenever I hear these stories I'm always fucking blown away by the parents' insane decision making processes regarding their children.

Oh, your daughter liked playing with a baseball or something more than wearing pigtails? Wow, that sounds like a totally normal reaction. Maybe she's gonna play softball as an adult. Honestly, the idea that she would ONLY like the stuff you picked out for her seems incredibly unlikely. No big deal. Just let your child be who she wants to be, without encouraging any silly fantasies.

Oh, you're...calling her a boy, sterilizing her and giving her a sex change before she hits puberty. Huh. That's an odd reaction.

[–]jet199[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

My favourite one was an American dad who knew his son was really a girl inside because he loved playing soccer ...

[–]alladd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Like how does the most obvious answer not occur to these parents the second the kid says this stuff?

"Oh, you're just saying you're a girl because you're a child, and you have a very basic conception of social dynamics, and to you, a girl does a set of things and a boy does a set of things and you think doing those things defines those categories, so if you do some things from the girl set, you are one."

Then again that's literally what troons think. We're fighting literal baby logic.

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's so weird though. Nearly everyone does things from both. Like I know a lot of men that really enjoy baking. I know a lot of women that enjoy sports and working on cars. To most people it's just hobbies or stuff and has nothing to do with their sex. When places like Tavistock are using "well you like Thomas the tank engine and hate periods" as their reasoning for someone being trans it's just so out there that anyone looking in thinks the people saying that are mental. Most women I know hate periods. A fair few of them enjoyed Thomas as a kid, myself included. It was never anything more than...enjoying Thomas.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It takes a lot to surprise me anymore. I've seen trends of crazy parents making dumb fuck decisions for their children for God knows how long. Now that trans stuff is in the media buzz there will be parents that latch onto that and be like "oh of course my kid is also trans" like what happened with autism or dyslexia or the other trendy things that hit the news.

Usually it's like there's some obscure condition out there most people don't know about, it hits the mainstream consciousness and suddenly all the crazy parents think it applies to them. See it with other things as well like the Halloween candy poisoning or razorblade scare, or with random kidnappings. Story hits the news? Suddenly the parents need to check every single piece of Halloween candy or ban their children from playing outside lest the one in a billion chance of bad thing happening happens.

[–]UncleWillard56 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Transitioning is a far bigger money maker than therapy.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Money. They make a lot of money.

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What makes you think psychiatrists can think?