Do these people have any respect for the functional aspect of a human body? “If you want breasts later in life you can go get them..” what the actual duck?? How’s a baby supposed to use “replaced breasts”? What are you going to feed them, silicone??
I can almost see the temptation to the lizard people conspiracy theory. When you have ‘medical professionals’ talking about human body simulacra like this you have to wonder if they’re actually a real life human being…
I have a politically incorrect comment about cosmetic surgery. I've been watching over the years as it seems to become more ubiquitous with more billboards advertising the latest bubble lips, balloon boobs and wax faces. I also see what looks like wax faces and starched hair in most Hollywood films and tv. Then I watch foreign film and the actors usually look like normal people, with frizzed hair and little to no make-up. Why is making the actors look like wax models seen as desirable? I don't get it. Then there's the fact that many places have a doctor shortage and yet there's this demand for plastic surgeons. I find it terrible that some may have to wait to see a GP while there are doctors out there using all that training to do butt implants. The plastic surgery demand is an indication of decay in our society, imo, and has contributed to the derailment of young people.
My father (who died 10 years ago) as a devoted cineaste (he took me to the UK's National Film Theatre when I was 15) used to comment that American films are made for children: European films are made for adults, by adults.
The billboard bubble lips and balloon boobs and wax faces essentially belong to Disney characters: using the cartoonist's craft of exaggeration of salient features (sex plus worship of youth) to create a fantasy world where everyone can buy sexiness via cosmetic surgery, and noone ever gets old (as that ends any woman's acting career).
The whole grotesque and cartoonish gender cult is like bad science fiction written by children, for consumption by other children of any age. J M Barrie wrote an archetypal version: with Neverland as home for the forever young Peter Pan (half boy, half bird) as "the boy that wouldn't grow up" and his gang of Lost Boys, with his sidekick Wendy and jealous fairy Tinker Bell.
This is what happens when the abnormal is treated as normal by society. #CONSEQUENCES
Medical degrees are often obtained by bright people with active and deep seated mental illness. These people are likely to be influential and dangerous. So what’s going to be done about it? Is it just going to be batted around in an echo chamber for profit?
Your judgement that doctors have deep-seated mental illness is not something I agree with. I do think a lot of them are greedy, and perhaps gullible (when it comes to trans issues), but I have had a lot of excellent doctors in my life, and most of them seemed perfectly normal to me.
There is a higher proportion of psychopaths among surgeons than among medical practitioners generally. I tend to think these are the ones who'll mainly be found doing "gender reassignment" surgery, for a nice profit and lots of followup to alleviate the original mistakes.
"There is a higher proportion of psychopaths among surgeons than among medical practitioners generally." That's an opinion, since there is no way to measure such a thing. Besides, SSmith above was referring to all medical doctors, not just surgeons.
It'a something I read somewhere in a study of psychopaths: which included their distribution in various occupations etc. I also remember they constituted around 4% of CEOs of large corporations, compared with 1% in the population generally.
I don't have an opinion on it.
I have also personally encountered a surprising number of doctors I would call callous.
The psychopathy among surgeons was correlated with the particularly "gung ho" attitutude of some, and willingness to slice into living flesh, which distinguished them from queasier colleagues.
Sorry I don't remember the source: I read too much too fast.
Well, that's hardly scientific. I'm actually surprised that only 1% of the total population is psychopathic. The problem, of course, is that psychological categories are not exact. The worst experience I ever had with a doctor happened just a couple months ago when I went to an ophthalmologist for a second opinion on my cataract surgery. He was rude, condescending and dismissive. He apparently felt that cataract surgery wasn't important enough to get a second opinion, but it was the first surgery I ever had. I never had such a bad experience in my life.
Women, however, have it worse with doctors, simply because of the misogyny among men.
I'm sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experience with a rude and dismissive doctor. I've found that the worst offences as a patient are presuming to know anything about one's own condition, let alone having a different explanation or -- worst of all -- asking questions. These are all challenges to authority which cannot be tolerated. Then there the DIY enthusiasts eager to have a go with locked spine or frozen shoulder -- or maybe just to test if it's real, not malingering -- who have caused me agonising and unnecessary physical pain with their ruthless wrenches and jerks. There are also the ones who don't believe drug reactions because it conflicts with what's printed somewhere. And the ones who regard clinical depression as "just feeling sorry for yourself" -- and the ones who tell you off for not going to see them much sooner (I now avoid all doctors so far as I possibly can).
Yes women tend to get a harder time than men, for all kinds of reasons which might be summed up as misogyny. Women are not taken seriously, and assumed to be malingerers, so much more often sent away with a drug prescription than referred for investigation or surgery, as men are for the same complaints. Women are also absent from most clinical trials, with only men as research subjects: "because" women's menstrual cycle makes us unsatisfactory research subjects, with too many confounding variables. This data gap is also based on the presumption that for medical purposes women are just an inferior version of men. So when heart attacks etc show up differently in women from how the do in men, they are not recognised -- and women die: where men would get swift and effective treatment. Source: Caroline Criado Perez, "Invisible Women" about the data gap. The chapter on medicine is quite big.
Correction: the relish with which surgeons corresponding to the "psychopath" psychological profile sliced into living flesh, compated with more cautious and reticent colleagues.
On YouTube there are videos by a trans man. (Now, some people will feel that what I am about to say is cruel, since I "should" be glad for him that he has achieved such a convincing transition. I'll use male pronouns to be polite).
He is young, and has a very masculine swagger -- very well studied, I might add, and very convincing. He gives a good rendition of a young macho man, speaking in an accent that could be from the Bronx. With his shirt off, he looks realistically male EXCEPT that the surgeons put his nipples in the wrong place -- they are an inch or two too low, not ON the lower portion of his pectoral muscles, but right at their bottom edge. The nipples are also the wrong shape, as men usually have flat nipples, and his are prominent and shapely.
He is fairly honest with his viewers, and in the video I watched he talks about his fake penis. He chose a moderate size -- six inches. That, I realize, is necessary because these fake penises [apparently] never become soft. They have to be hard enough to be useful during sex, and if it is too large it will be an embarrassment in the trans man's pants. During the video I watched, he revealed that a small amount of liquid comes out of his penis during sex -- but what the hell is that liquid?
Now, if this is a person with real gender dysphoria, I should just shut up. But there is so much about him that seems wrong -- the over-compensating male behavior being the main thing. One gets the feeling that one is watching an actor play a part.
Think about this. Does my crossdressing, post-op ex-husband have the "right" to name himself "mother" of our 2 grown sons? Especially after he went down the "transition" rabbit hole when I was 6 months pregnant with our second son? He now claims that he went through my 2 natural labors. After all, he was there, though pretty much useless. He convincingly tells everyone how much faster and intense the second labor was, only 5 hours, while the first was the normal 12 hours. He works in a tech job serving world class museums, demonstrating "pronouns" and recommending museum staff to advise that we "don't know" if any of the old masters "were actually women."
Ute, I know you've had a bad experience and you're angry about these particular matters, but that isn't good reason to require someone else's pronoun use (or any other reasonable speech) to conform to your preferences, any more than a trans-identifying person's pronoun preferences should compel your speech.
Well, I see that Cancel Culture is coming after me now, except that this is not the pro-trans Cancel Culture, this is the anti-trans Cancel Culture. Either way, I don't like it.
Listen, *I* DECIDE what to say in my comments. From time to time, when a trans person puts on a particularly convincing show of being part of the opposite sex, I'll use the pronouns that person prefers. Since this was a trans man I was talking about, and since REAL MEN (unlike real women) are not threatened by transgenderism, I didn't see any harm in it. If you don't like it, too bad. You squawking chickens can find someone else to peck at now.
No, it's a human rights issue. It violates the human rights of a sex class (men, women) when a member of one class falsely claims to be a member of the other, usurping the fundamental human right to free association (in this case, with members of one's own sex only). You endorse this violation of human rights by using the pronouns of the falsely claimed sex class.
Ridiculous. You endorse slavery by using a damned computer. The link between those things is much clearer than whether Perry's use of "he" instead of "she" or vice versa is going to violate anyone's human rights, now or in the future.
Funny, I thought you were in a comments section with other readers of the column. But apparently you are actually in an alternate universe in a conversation with a cross-dressing dude.
Resistance can be a powerful tool. One way to resist gender identity ideology is to reject its language. Like all post-structuralist constructs, gender identity ideology enlists language to distort people's realities. What else explains the neologisms "top surgery" and "bottom surgery"? They make surgical mutilation sound like a trip to the Gap.
It might be faster and simpler to type Trans Inc.'s confounding terminology, but think of the impact that spelling it all out will have.
I’m looking for a support organization for classroom teachers (esp college)that helps teachers deal with the trans ideology brought into the classroom by students. Does any such organization exist? Thanks!
As I always say, as gracefully as I can: out of 53 trans widows' data on our experiences, more half of us have been publicly defamed in court through sworn affidavits or on social media by the former husband who suddenly took on a female persona. As for sexual assaults by these men before we fled, 19 of us were sexually assaulted. There were 5 rapes. One was reported, but I was just notified by Aine-Liv (pen name) that the police have decided not to press charges. She has the same evidence as the women now accusing Russell Brand of rape. She had given birth to their daughter about 2 weeks before, and has evidence on her nursing clothing. Tracy Shannon and Rex Landy, brave women who are courageously putting their details out under their own names, were assaulted. Tracy was thrown down the stairs by her husband, who used trans lobbying groups to go to court for custody of their three children. The father of Rex Landy's child raised his hand to her (still considered assault) but she told him she'd fight back, then fled with the infant back to her native New Zealand. The truth will set you free. Data on the first 50 women who left crossdressing husbands:
While this is a tragedy, not a comedy, JP Sears' way with creativity makes such good points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgzIWQA2bM&t=2s - affirming all kids no matter what. I would have been a dog.
Do these people have any respect for the functional aspect of a human body? “If you want breasts later in life you can go get them..” what the actual duck?? How’s a baby supposed to use “replaced breasts”? What are you going to feed them, silicone??
I can almost see the temptation to the lizard people conspiracy theory. When you have ‘medical professionals’ talking about human body simulacra like this you have to wonder if they’re actually a real life human being…
I have a politically incorrect comment about cosmetic surgery. I've been watching over the years as it seems to become more ubiquitous with more billboards advertising the latest bubble lips, balloon boobs and wax faces. I also see what looks like wax faces and starched hair in most Hollywood films and tv. Then I watch foreign film and the actors usually look like normal people, with frizzed hair and little to no make-up. Why is making the actors look like wax models seen as desirable? I don't get it. Then there's the fact that many places have a doctor shortage and yet there's this demand for plastic surgeons. I find it terrible that some may have to wait to see a GP while there are doctors out there using all that training to do butt implants. The plastic surgery demand is an indication of decay in our society, imo, and has contributed to the derailment of young people.
My father (who died 10 years ago) as a devoted cineaste (he took me to the UK's National Film Theatre when I was 15) used to comment that American films are made for children: European films are made for adults, by adults.
The billboard bubble lips and balloon boobs and wax faces essentially belong to Disney characters: using the cartoonist's craft of exaggeration of salient features (sex plus worship of youth) to create a fantasy world where everyone can buy sexiness via cosmetic surgery, and noone ever gets old (as that ends any woman's acting career).
The whole grotesque and cartoonish gender cult is like bad science fiction written by children, for consumption by other children of any age. J M Barrie wrote an archetypal version: with Neverland as home for the forever young Peter Pan (half boy, half bird) as "the boy that wouldn't grow up" and his gang of Lost Boys, with his sidekick Wendy and jealous fairy Tinker Bell.
I like your father. May he rest in peace.
"American films are made for children: European films are made for adults, by adults."
Once Europeans land in America and just see how people dress to travel here leads to one inescapable conclusion: Americans are adult babies.
And our Mama the Market, wouldnt have it any other way!
This is what happens when the abnormal is treated as normal by society. #CONSEQUENCES
Medical degrees are often obtained by bright people with active and deep seated mental illness. These people are likely to be influential and dangerous. So what’s going to be done about it? Is it just going to be batted around in an echo chamber for profit?
Your judgement that doctors have deep-seated mental illness is not something I agree with. I do think a lot of them are greedy, and perhaps gullible (when it comes to trans issues), but I have had a lot of excellent doctors in my life, and most of them seemed perfectly normal to me.
There is a higher proportion of psychopaths among surgeons than among medical practitioners generally. I tend to think these are the ones who'll mainly be found doing "gender reassignment" surgery, for a nice profit and lots of followup to alleviate the original mistakes.
"There is a higher proportion of psychopaths among surgeons than among medical practitioners generally." That's an opinion, since there is no way to measure such a thing. Besides, SSmith above was referring to all medical doctors, not just surgeons.
It'a something I read somewhere in a study of psychopaths: which included their distribution in various occupations etc. I also remember they constituted around 4% of CEOs of large corporations, compared with 1% in the population generally.
I don't have an opinion on it.
I have also personally encountered a surprising number of doctors I would call callous.
The psychopathy among surgeons was correlated with the particularly "gung ho" attitutude of some, and willingness to slice into living flesh, which distinguished them from queasier colleagues.
Sorry I don't remember the source: I read too much too fast.
Well, that's hardly scientific. I'm actually surprised that only 1% of the total population is psychopathic. The problem, of course, is that psychological categories are not exact. The worst experience I ever had with a doctor happened just a couple months ago when I went to an ophthalmologist for a second opinion on my cataract surgery. He was rude, condescending and dismissive. He apparently felt that cataract surgery wasn't important enough to get a second opinion, but it was the first surgery I ever had. I never had such a bad experience in my life.
Women, however, have it worse with doctors, simply because of the misogyny among men.
I'm sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experience with a rude and dismissive doctor. I've found that the worst offences as a patient are presuming to know anything about one's own condition, let alone having a different explanation or -- worst of all -- asking questions. These are all challenges to authority which cannot be tolerated. Then there the DIY enthusiasts eager to have a go with locked spine or frozen shoulder -- or maybe just to test if it's real, not malingering -- who have caused me agonising and unnecessary physical pain with their ruthless wrenches and jerks. There are also the ones who don't believe drug reactions because it conflicts with what's printed somewhere. And the ones who regard clinical depression as "just feeling sorry for yourself" -- and the ones who tell you off for not going to see them much sooner (I now avoid all doctors so far as I possibly can).
Yes women tend to get a harder time than men, for all kinds of reasons which might be summed up as misogyny. Women are not taken seriously, and assumed to be malingerers, so much more often sent away with a drug prescription than referred for investigation or surgery, as men are for the same complaints. Women are also absent from most clinical trials, with only men as research subjects: "because" women's menstrual cycle makes us unsatisfactory research subjects, with too many confounding variables. This data gap is also based on the presumption that for medical purposes women are just an inferior version of men. So when heart attacks etc show up differently in women from how the do in men, they are not recognised -- and women die: where men would get swift and effective treatment. Source: Caroline Criado Perez, "Invisible Women" about the data gap. The chapter on medicine is quite big.
Correction: the relish with which surgeons corresponding to the "psychopath" psychological profile sliced into living flesh, compated with more cautious and reticent colleagues.
On YouTube there are videos by a trans man. (Now, some people will feel that what I am about to say is cruel, since I "should" be glad for him that he has achieved such a convincing transition. I'll use male pronouns to be polite).
He is young, and has a very masculine swagger -- very well studied, I might add, and very convincing. He gives a good rendition of a young macho man, speaking in an accent that could be from the Bronx. With his shirt off, he looks realistically male EXCEPT that the surgeons put his nipples in the wrong place -- they are an inch or two too low, not ON the lower portion of his pectoral muscles, but right at their bottom edge. The nipples are also the wrong shape, as men usually have flat nipples, and his are prominent and shapely.
He is fairly honest with his viewers, and in the video I watched he talks about his fake penis. He chose a moderate size -- six inches. That, I realize, is necessary because these fake penises [apparently] never become soft. They have to be hard enough to be useful during sex, and if it is too large it will be an embarrassment in the trans man's pants. During the video I watched, he revealed that a small amount of liquid comes out of his penis during sex -- but what the hell is that liquid?
Now, if this is a person with real gender dysphoria, I should just shut up. But there is so much about him that seems wrong -- the over-compensating male behavior being the main thing. One gets the feeling that one is watching an actor play a part.
She, not he.
That's my decision.
It is your decision to use incorrect grammar, but it's still incorrect grammar.
Thanks for this, Kmick. Please see my response to Mr. James in this thread.
kmick -- Do not correct me. I am an excellent writer. If I want to be polite to a trans person by using his preferred pronouns, then I will.
You know as well as I do that this is not a grammar issue.
Think about this. Does my crossdressing, post-op ex-husband have the "right" to name himself "mother" of our 2 grown sons? Especially after he went down the "transition" rabbit hole when I was 6 months pregnant with our second son? He now claims that he went through my 2 natural labors. After all, he was there, though pretty much useless. He convincingly tells everyone how much faster and intense the second labor was, only 5 hours, while the first was the normal 12 hours. He works in a tech job serving world class museums, demonstrating "pronouns" and recommending museum staff to advise that we "don't know" if any of the old masters "were actually women."
Ute, I know you've had a bad experience and you're angry about these particular matters, but that isn't good reason to require someone else's pronoun use (or any other reasonable speech) to conform to your preferences, any more than a trans-identifying person's pronoun preferences should compel your speech.
Well, I see that Cancel Culture is coming after me now, except that this is not the pro-trans Cancel Culture, this is the anti-trans Cancel Culture. Either way, I don't like it.
Listen, *I* DECIDE what to say in my comments. From time to time, when a trans person puts on a particularly convincing show of being part of the opposite sex, I'll use the pronouns that person prefers. Since this was a trans man I was talking about, and since REAL MEN (unlike real women) are not threatened by transgenderism, I didn't see any harm in it. If you don't like it, too bad. You squawking chickens can find someone else to peck at now.
No, it's a human rights issue. It violates the human rights of a sex class (men, women) when a member of one class falsely claims to be a member of the other, usurping the fundamental human right to free association (in this case, with members of one's own sex only). You endorse this violation of human rights by using the pronouns of the falsely claimed sex class.
Ridiculous. You endorse slavery by using a damned computer. The link between those things is much clearer than whether Perry's use of "he" instead of "she" or vice versa is going to violate anyone's human rights, now or in the future.
Funny, I thought you were in a comments section with other readers of the column. But apparently you are actually in an alternate universe in a conversation with a cross-dressing dude.
I'm looking for a way on Substack to block your comments from now on. You are just too much of an ass and a smart-aleck for me to bother with.
Resistance can be a powerful tool. One way to resist gender identity ideology is to reject its language. Like all post-structuralist constructs, gender identity ideology enlists language to distort people's realities. What else explains the neologisms "top surgery" and "bottom surgery"? They make surgical mutilation sound like a trip to the Gap.
It might be faster and simpler to type Trans Inc.'s confounding terminology, but think of the impact that spelling it all out will have.
There's "hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty, gender-affirming mastectomy, breast augmentation, laryngochrondoplasty, scrotectomy, penectomy," etc. (https://portlanddissent.substack.com/p/dr-peters-and-his-marvelous-vagina)
Put it to music and post it on YouTube!
References:
Cheverton, Richard. "Dr. Peters and His Marvelous Vagina-Making Machine
An extraordinary video direct from the OHSU Transgender Chop-Shop." Portland Dissent. 21 August 2023. https://portlanddissent.substack.com/
I’m looking for a support organization for classroom teachers (esp college)that helps teachers deal with the trans ideology brought into the classroom by students. Does any such organization exist? Thanks!
I'd email Genspect... info@genspect.org
As I always say, as gracefully as I can: out of 53 trans widows' data on our experiences, more half of us have been publicly defamed in court through sworn affidavits or on social media by the former husband who suddenly took on a female persona. As for sexual assaults by these men before we fled, 19 of us were sexually assaulted. There were 5 rapes. One was reported, but I was just notified by Aine-Liv (pen name) that the police have decided not to press charges. She has the same evidence as the women now accusing Russell Brand of rape. She had given birth to their daughter about 2 weeks before, and has evidence on her nursing clothing. Tracy Shannon and Rex Landy, brave women who are courageously putting their details out under their own names, were assaulted. Tracy was thrown down the stairs by her husband, who used trans lobbying groups to go to court for custody of their three children. The father of Rex Landy's child raised his hand to her (still considered assault) but she told him she'd fight back, then fled with the infant back to her native New Zealand. The truth will set you free. Data on the first 50 women who left crossdressing husbands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-3fYh3TVc&t=534s
While this is a tragedy, not a comedy, JP Sears' way with creativity makes such good points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgzIWQA2bM&t=2s - affirming all kids no matter what. I would have been a dog.
"bottomless", LOL!