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My parents (who are protestants, for the record) tried very hard to teach me to think for myself, and to not just uncritically accept what they believed (or anything for that matter) as fact.

They're going to look back on these days in their older years like members of the Hitler Youth did; most rightfully with shame, but a few secretly with pride.

My perspective is as a sane leftist who saw the rise of "transtrenderism" firsthand on Tumblr; and the reaction to it from the transgender community at the time. Suffice to say, they did not like seeing their struggles with their gender identity commoditized and turned into a status symbol, and...

Some of them; but most of the footage I've seen show them either trying to gang on people, surprise them, or running away the moment they meet serious resistance.

Well, no; they only love fights that are rigged in their favor, against opponents that in one way or another they've reduced to little more than a punching bag. With that in mind, there is another path that could be taken to oppose them, one that involves going well past overboard and never...

The sad thing is, the mainstream "Trans" community is probably ecstatic to hear that; because they want enemies to fight (well, "fight" in this case meaning using their connections in government and the media to oppress people they don't like) far more than they want tolerance.

What irritates me the most about this is the cognitive dissonance of insisting you're underprivileged and being oppressed, while at the same time using your privileged position in society to try and oppress other people.

As I understand it, the poor girl has some trauma related to bullying in her past; so I suspect receiving more in response to her simply announcing that she was going to play Hogwarts Legacy was enough to sour her on continuing to be a VTuber. Sadly, I expect those who pushed her into this are...

I'm more worried about what she means by "Death before detransition". Is she saying she would rather die before detransitioning, or that she's willing to murder someone to keep them from doing so?

Unfortunately, trauma tends to cause mental illness, not cure it.

Honestly, I don't think even Zoe knows what her intent was when she wrote that; she has something of a history of saying things without considering their full implications first. For example; that time she announced she was a fascist, or that time she floated the idea of punishing anyone who...

I am well aware of the controversies and inadequacies surrounding psychiatry and psychology; just as I'm sure you're aware of those that have surrounded religion. You will find no argument from me against the idea that Psychology, as it is practiced today, falls short of the descriptor; in that...

Transition is the best tool we have right now for dealing with gender dysphoria; that does not mean we will never have better tools at our disposal. Perhaps it may one day be possible to fix any number of issues with the brain, but we are not there yet. Quite frankly, what we don't know about...

All transgenders were at one point children, so there's really no arguing against the fact that there are children who are transgender. The issue arises in correctly diagnosing it at a young age; which is decidedly difficult in this day and age, what with all the regressive leftist ideology...

Assuming that the patient actually needs it of course; the recent spat of "trans-trenders" makes me worried that a number of people will later regret going through with transition therapy (or worse, being forced to go through with it by their parents at a young age). Though to be fair, many that...

I don't think we've evolved at all beyond our primitive roots; we just kept piling various things on top of them and pretended they don't exist anymore, when in reality they're behind every decision we make. Also, the original purpose of muscles was motion; to "evolve beyond" that is to allow...

I don't care if it "sounds bad"; is it bad in practice? Because if not, I don't see the point in complaining about it. Unfortunately, those rights ended up in conflict with the rights of cisgenders, and apparently opened the door for abuse where men who only claimed to be transgender used them...

It does, so let's move it to this one. Which decisions specifically, that Trump's administration has made on the issue of transgenderism, do you take issue with?

Depending on the circumstances? Yes. Oh sure; if you think you can convince them not to go through with it, go ahead and try. I would fully support such an endeavor, much as I would support offering proper counseling for the trans-gendered that neither glorifies, nor condemns their condition...

True, but sometimes it's not about helping them; because it's not always possible, particularly when you consider how abysmal mental health care is across the board. As long as their delusions are not leading them to hurt others, sometimes the best thing we can do for them is to just leave them...