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Clay Bonnyman Evans's avatar

Every time I read about kids in this whole bizarre saga, I find myself thinking that really, the "trans" mania is mostly about uncomfortable feelings—and contemporary children's seeming inability to deal with even slight discomfort.

The flip side: If the measure of "success" is that girls are in a "good mood" and "over the moon" after having allowed their bodies to have been permanently altered by the removal of healthy tissue, then clearly part of the problem is that parents and "experts" have become convinced that the most important factor in a child's life is that they never "feel bad."

Wow. Such a stark difference from what I've learned in meditation, which is all about trying to remain present in the moment, regardless of what's happening, and recognizing that all things—including thoughts and feelings as well as sounds, sensations, light and shadow—are simply arising and falling away in consciousness. All is impermanent, and it's attachment to anything ("I'm uncomfortable mom!") that causes dukkha, or suffering.

In other words, trans treatment for kids is what you might call anti-resilience. Or so it seems to me.

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Sufeitzy's avatar

To clarify, this is a doctor who says sterilizing children chemically castrating them (the only way to block puberty, there is no other folks) makes them happy.

If a dentist pulled all the teeth from a child and declares the child is happy because they’d never suffer from cavities or the annoyance of brushing teeth, we be horrified.

If a podiatrist removed all the nails from a child and declares them psychologically improved because they’d never suffer from a hangnail, fungal

Infection or the annoyance of trimming nails, we’d be horrified.

We aren’t horrified when a doctor surgically removes part of a sex organ of a male child so they can keep their penis cleaner, and “be happier”.

We are hearing doctors sterilize children. Chemical castration.

I wish all legislation simply read that castration of children is illegal under penalty of lifetime in prison.

In the 50’s “psychosurgery” doctors said lobotomizing aggressive women made them happy. The fact that the children are stunted, subject to debilitating chronic illness in later years and complete removal is sexual response is not mentioned. Similarly, the fact that lobotomized patients were incontinent, could not function independently, and lost the ability to reason or speak, well that’s an aside.

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