The "amputee-identified" thing highlights the insanity of this ideology so well. We (society) would never entertain the notion that perfectly healthy limbs be removed because someone had a sincerely held belief (aka, delusion) that she was born without legs. But the sex organs and GENDER? So special, so mysterious, so innate, an IDENTITY not a delusion!
The "amputee-identified" thing highlights the insanity of this ideology so well. We (society) would never entertain the notion that perfectly healthy limbs be removed because someone had a sincerely held belief (aka, delusion) that she was born without legs. But the sex organs and GENDER? So special, so mysterious, so innate, an IDENTITY not a delusion!
Sadly , some doctors do perform amputations in healthy limbs for people who claim they can only be” whole” without them! ( See” Better Than Well” by Carl Elliott) those people are clearly considered mentally ill and most doctors refuse to do such amputations.as they’re illegal.
Not so with gender amputations , though! They also should be illegal! The “ trans people are just as mentally ill , but sadly accepted now.
Yes. I can only talk of the jurisdictions I know best, but I have heard that it happens. Mental health care has been (re-)stigmatised to such an extent that it is now secondary to physical intervention. Its a modern, industrialised version of flagellation for "bad" thoughts.
I know. It would make more sense (not good sense, but more explicable) if removal of healthy limbs was allowed but amputation of sexual characteristics wasn't, especially in light of cases all over Europe in which e.g. involuntary contraception for severely learning disadvantaged people (who, by definition, couldn't give consent) has been found unlawful despite the risks of pregnancy being very significant. These same courts are now allowing children who cannot know what they are losing, *but will in the future*, to be permanently sterilised. Parliaments are looking on as if nothing of worth is being lost. It is so frustrating!
Another really important point b/c with the tremendous overlap b/w autism spectrum disorder and "trans," we (society) *are* permanently sterilizing children with cognitive disabilities.
Indeed. It is eugenics, whether intentional or not. Neurodivergent and LGB people are being permanently removed from the gene-pool at a time when it has never been easier to be included in it.
I've been fighting it for at least ten years (one of those early TERFs, lol), but it seems unstoppable at this point. The institutional capture - the highest levels of federal agencies promote it - particularly makes me feel hopeless.
I didn't realise I was interacting with TERF royalty! 😁
The picture must look very bleak in some places, and I'm taking nothing for granted even in the ones that seem to be actually taking an evidence-based approach.
The "amputee-identified" thing highlights the insanity of this ideology so well. We (society) would never entertain the notion that perfectly healthy limbs be removed because someone had a sincerely held belief (aka, delusion) that she was born without legs. But the sex organs and GENDER? So special, so mysterious, so innate, an IDENTITY not a delusion!
Sadly , some doctors do perform amputations in healthy limbs for people who claim they can only be” whole” without them! ( See” Better Than Well” by Carl Elliott) those people are clearly considered mentally ill and most doctors refuse to do such amputations.as they’re illegal.
Not so with gender amputations , though! They also should be illegal! The “ trans people are just as mentally ill , but sadly accepted now.
Yes. I can only talk of the jurisdictions I know best, but I have heard that it happens. Mental health care has been (re-)stigmatised to such an extent that it is now secondary to physical intervention. Its a modern, industrialised version of flagellation for "bad" thoughts.
I know. It would make more sense (not good sense, but more explicable) if removal of healthy limbs was allowed but amputation of sexual characteristics wasn't, especially in light of cases all over Europe in which e.g. involuntary contraception for severely learning disadvantaged people (who, by definition, couldn't give consent) has been found unlawful despite the risks of pregnancy being very significant. These same courts are now allowing children who cannot know what they are losing, *but will in the future*, to be permanently sterilised. Parliaments are looking on as if nothing of worth is being lost. It is so frustrating!
Another really important point b/c with the tremendous overlap b/w autism spectrum disorder and "trans," we (society) *are* permanently sterilizing children with cognitive disabilities.
Indeed. It is eugenics, whether intentional or not. Neurodivergent and LGB people are being permanently removed from the gene-pool at a time when it has never been easier to be included in it.
As an L, that has been one of the things that terrifies me the most about this insanity.
I'm so sorry. I will fight as hard as I can to end this horror. It has to be stopped.
I've been fighting it for at least ten years (one of those early TERFs, lol), but it seems unstoppable at this point. The institutional capture - the highest levels of federal agencies promote it - particularly makes me feel hopeless.
I didn't realise I was interacting with TERF royalty! 😁
The picture must look very bleak in some places, and I'm taking nothing for granted even in the ones that seem to be actually taking an evidence-based approach.