You’ll note I said transgenderism is A treatment. Not the only one. Every case should be handled between the patient and their medical/psychological advisors. The best course of action for one is not the same for another.
Seldom do complicated issue have simple answers. Though I guess it’s easier to think that they do. Not very constructive though.
The point of the question eludes me, but freedom of association - and therefore of dissociation - imples the right to discriminate against either, obviously. Under what insane rubric does Mengelesque mutilation qualify as such? And what does it have to do with "transgender rights"?
Okay, so you support discrimination, good to know. Though I already knew that. There are plenty of medical procedures that might seem questionable to you that help people. You don’t have to agree or understand it for the procedure to be beneficial.
I wouldn't call it a "treatment " per say. As I said, to me it only placates the symptoms. It would be like giving an addict a life's supply of opium. Letting them participate as the gender they wish to imitate does the same.
Matter of opinion I suppose. My anecdotal experiences show me a number of friends who are much happier and mentally healthier since they’ve began their transition.
Addiction is of course a different form of mental disorder. Different ailments require different treatments. Not to mention your example is false equivalence. Transgenderism removes the cause of the distress, or attempts to at least. Giving more drugs to the addicted, aside from weening to avoid dangerous withdrawal symptoms, just drowns them in their disorder.
Complicating a simple issue does not make it a complicated issue. It is just an exercise in vanity, leaving the simple issue unaddressed.
Sure, simple problems tend to go years without resolution and incite massive debate. The answer is only simple to you because you believe you’re the only one who is right.
What will have to happen before Liberals see the problem is completely abolish men's and women's sports divisions and let them all compete together, once there has been no women champions for a couple years, the Liberals will advocate for letting the women compete against women so that they will finally have a chance. Yes, Liberals/Democrats really are that dense.
like everyone else with a lick of sense, obviously. Most likely you do as well, when it suits your purposes. You're not talking about any such procedure here - assuming, of course, that help doesn't mean catering to a patient's insanity. More to the point, you don't have to understand the first thing about human psychology to perceive a pseudomedical atrocity as beneficial, given such slack-jawed credulity as is cultivated in the masses by authority figures. Not really, no. More to the point, where differences do not exist they must be contrived; and the more the merrier, that human psychology may be rendered increasingly incomprehensible, and therefore best left to the cognoscenti, who live to manage people, and thus require a large reservoir of psychotics who lend themselves to management. Really? The equipment they're born with is the cause of their distress? Really?? It does no such thing. It merely attempts to relieve his sense of distress by catering to his delusion. Does it now? Well let's compare the recipient of such maltreatment to a guy that gets his equipment amputated. Which of them, having finally refused to be further misled, has the easier road to recovery? Where there's a will, there's a way; and history indicates there is never any shortage of those with the will to power, which is easily acquired by those willing and able to sow confusion. Neither are their shades of gray between right and wrong, but the contrary conceit is comforting to those of a certain mindset.
Absolutely. Failing to do so, and then engaging in sexual activity is technically rape. Legally, the innocent party has NOT CONSENTED to sex with the 'actual person' who failed to declare. You watch, these will become rape charges very very soon. But of course, Progressives hate rape culture and sexual predation and all that, so they'll totally be for calling it rape. Right?
No it's not a treatment, it's a bandaid on a symptom - which in fact worsens the condition, AND fails to address the underlying cause of the symptom. When we seek to cure the disease, we must treat the cause. As for addicts, they should have no more rights than anyone else.
It's not complicated. Men/Women. That's it. Insisting that 'it's complicated' is cheap ploy to enable those who think they're too special to play by the rules.
If we start living as though it's 50 shades of grey, nothing will get done. No progress, no improvement of the human condition, nothing. All resources and energy will be redirected to propping up 7 billion iterations of personal feelings and preferences.
You are right. You can see the lefties redirecting my original post to suit their catch-all "we are all the same" ideology. Its aboslute madness. The post is simple... A man.. Yes MAN.. parting in female athletic events is WRONG - UNFAIR - PERVERSE - and should be stopped for being the insane thing it is. Its time we got back to rational behaviour without minority groups constantly playing victim.
