As a person who has struggled with anorexia nervosa since puberty, the transgender anguish resonates with me. The similarities between the two illnesses are striking. Yet one is an identity, and the other is a disorder. Why?
At the heart of gender dysphoria is a paradoxical desire to be characterized as something one simultaneously declares is ineffable (i.e. gender roles are illusory cultural constructs, but I yearn to concretely embody that illusion). The contradictory desire in transgenderism is similar in hopelessness as the desire in anorexia. The goal is to be thin, and one is never thin enough until one is dead. The goal is to be a sex other than one’s biological makeup, and one cannot alter one’s chromosomes and genetic makeup.
If a man wants to wear makeup, dresses, even get breast implants, who are we to stop him? If he wants to legally change his name to Maureen, great! But language policing, the implication that by misusing a pronoun we are savaging a person’s very core, is untenable. Using “he” instead of “she” may very well hurt someone’s feelings, but that is a level of sensitivity on par with agoraphobia (fear of crowded or enclosed public spaces). The onus is on the person to find ways of coping. The world cannot be responsible for validating a confusing, opaque issue that has been too quickly transferred from “disorder” to “condition,” from irrational to heroic.
I’ve always wanted to be a millionaire, but nobody will give the money, can you change that law too?
Why Is Transgender An Identity But Anorexia A Disorder?
Because the Left revels in mental illness.
Give every kid a ribbon! Give every kid a trophy! They’re all winners!
It’s OK Jimmy, you identify as a winner. That’s all it takes!
For thirty years we’ve let Liberals coddle instead of compete.
And when that’s not good enough, they just make stuff up to draw attention.
Jimmy wants to dress like Jaimie this weekend eventually turns into Jimmy wanting to be Jaimie.
See where it goes when you don’t draw lines? Of course encouragement and praise are important, but it is just as important to understand that you lose sometimes too, especially if you don’t try hard enough. That and being able to understand the difference between right and wrong and that it is OK to think something IS wrong!
Now it has gotten so that you can’t hardly turn on a TV without seeing or hearing about something Gay or Transgender like half the people in the country are like that! What it all comes down to is that the Left is simply encouraging, enabling, promoting and mainstreaming mental illness in their relentless pursuit of Anything to Weaken America with the belief that when ya can’t beat ’em, drag ’em down to your level of suck!
What The Rat Fink said! ^^^^^^ 👏
“The onus is on the person to find ways of coping.”
Whenever someone uses the work onus I can’t help but think of one of my favorite quotes from the TV series JUSTIFIED:
Dewey Crowe: “The anus is on you.
At least you can still suggest that igender confusion is a mental condition. Try doing this with sexuality the thought police will descend.
One EMP makes all this moot.
The Gay Mafia is nervous because if Gender Dyspepsia is a classified mental disorder, then what of being Homosexual?
They are both mental disorders.
Just like Schizophrenia, except you don’t hear folks telling those afflicted with Schizophrenia “you should totally do what the voices in your head tell you to”
Acting outside of your biologically assigned role is madness
No two ways about it.
This is a good time to mention that I’m really an Adopted African Albanian albino bilateral amputee lesbian cis gendered dwarf isn’t it?
Yeah, but yer nuthin if yer not wearing a plaid flannel lumberjack shirt too!
Stay away from soy or you will become a poofer.
“From irrational to heroic” – that is what bothers me most. And it prevents anyone with the disorder from seeking appropriate psychological help once he starts down the path, as he will now meet resistance from people around him for simply trying to return to normalcy.
@Davy:
The Dewey Crowe quote. Yes! LOL! Justified was a PHENOMENAL show.
Shows how flush we are as a civilization when many people’s major problems are frivolous and not survival focused.
No, they’re both disorders. Transgenders are homosexuals who refuse to admit it. It’s easier for them to say they were born in the wrong body. You’ll never convince me that they aren’t all mentally ill.