“Who’s going to tell these reporters that people exist whether we call them what they want to be called or not? Descartes did not say ‘You affirm, therefore I am.’”
Superb commentary on the HHS announcement, in particular. Lisa, you truly have established yourself as an important public intellectual on these issues. I have restacked.
While Trump's rhetoric is an editing job I'd take on, if invited, I don't think trans ally reactions would be different or nuanced if presented by Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson or other more temperate voices. Like the non-answers Dr. Richard/Rachel Levine gave in Congress, the indoctrinated Left will never acknowledge their decades of arrogance or their missteps. The system of suppression and censorship is institutionalized through the Trans Journalists' Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide, whose authors are not identified on their website. They do though, twist the arms of the New York Times and other news organizations such that the stories of trans widows are never covered, detransitioners are deplatformed and teachers continue to promote trans ideology in schools throughout the country. I continue to refer back to the principles of Piaget's stages of child development and developmental milestones of Object Permanence and Conservation of Matter. "Wrong body since birth" is a concept easily disproved. Treatment for Sex-based Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (coined by child psychologist, Elliot Kaminetsky) should include trauma treatment, movement for mind/body reconnections and the many breathing strategies developed to overcome panic reactions. I find the handwringing over the style of presentation to be a distraction from the actual work at hand, work that the mental health field completely abdicated.
While I agree that there are some in the gender movement who would never accept restrictions no matter who proposed them, it's hard to argue that Trumps's thorough and pervasive corruption undermines anything his administration does.
The real kicker here is that pretty much *any* Republican president would have moved against gender stuff, but wouldn't be compromised by Trump's crude venality. For some reason, the GOP decided it HAD to have the worst conceivable Republican, and...well, here we are.
I'm thinking about the Trevor Project data, that kids whose pronoun preference is honored have fewer suicide attempts. I have questions.
1) What qualifies as a "suicide attempt"? That seems like a term with a good deal of elasticity, and I'd like to know a bit more.
2) Looking at the list of categories of LGBTQwhatever people, I'm not sure they all make sense. What's the practical difference between bisexual and pansexual? What the hell is queer? And why would "questioning" people want different pronouns anyway?
3) Pronoun usage famously changes frequently with some of these folks. It's "he" yesterday, "she" this morning, perhaps "them" by lunchtime...some people are even "she/they." How do we know we are not just measuring that subjects feel better when other people do as they are told?
Finally, it seems to me that this is a category of people who are unstable to say the least. Currently, the things that will make them kill themselves are...
-- Lack of access to puberty blockers
-- Lack of access to cross sex hormones
-- Lack of access to various surgeries
-- Inability to play on any sports team they choose
-- Bans on entering sex-segregated spaces
-- Existing in a nation where some states--possibly not even their own--have laws they don't like
-- Not being referred to by the preferred name
-- Not being referred to by preferred pronouns
There's an old saying about not covering the world with leather, but simply donning shoes...
“Who’s going to tell these reporters that people exist whether we call them what they want to be called or not? Descartes did not say ‘You affirm, therefore I am.’”
I laughed out loud. Thank you, Lisa.
Superb commentary on the HHS announcement, in particular. Lisa, you truly have established yourself as an important public intellectual on these issues. I have restacked.
While Trump's rhetoric is an editing job I'd take on, if invited, I don't think trans ally reactions would be different or nuanced if presented by Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson or other more temperate voices. Like the non-answers Dr. Richard/Rachel Levine gave in Congress, the indoctrinated Left will never acknowledge their decades of arrogance or their missteps. The system of suppression and censorship is institutionalized through the Trans Journalists' Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide, whose authors are not identified on their website. They do though, twist the arms of the New York Times and other news organizations such that the stories of trans widows are never covered, detransitioners are deplatformed and teachers continue to promote trans ideology in schools throughout the country. I continue to refer back to the principles of Piaget's stages of child development and developmental milestones of Object Permanence and Conservation of Matter. "Wrong body since birth" is a concept easily disproved. Treatment for Sex-based Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (coined by child psychologist, Elliot Kaminetsky) should include trauma treatment, movement for mind/body reconnections and the many breathing strategies developed to overcome panic reactions. I find the handwringing over the style of presentation to be a distraction from the actual work at hand, work that the mental health field completely abdicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frvzBSSqfk
While I agree that there are some in the gender movement who would never accept restrictions no matter who proposed them, it's hard to argue that Trumps's thorough and pervasive corruption undermines anything his administration does.
The real kicker here is that pretty much *any* Republican president would have moved against gender stuff, but wouldn't be compromised by Trump's crude venality. For some reason, the GOP decided it HAD to have the worst conceivable Republican, and...well, here we are.
I'm thinking about the Trevor Project data, that kids whose pronoun preference is honored have fewer suicide attempts. I have questions.
1) What qualifies as a "suicide attempt"? That seems like a term with a good deal of elasticity, and I'd like to know a bit more.
2) Looking at the list of categories of LGBTQwhatever people, I'm not sure they all make sense. What's the practical difference between bisexual and pansexual? What the hell is queer? And why would "questioning" people want different pronouns anyway?
3) Pronoun usage famously changes frequently with some of these folks. It's "he" yesterday, "she" this morning, perhaps "them" by lunchtime...some people are even "she/they." How do we know we are not just measuring that subjects feel better when other people do as they are told?
Finally, it seems to me that this is a category of people who are unstable to say the least. Currently, the things that will make them kill themselves are...
-- Lack of access to puberty blockers
-- Lack of access to cross sex hormones
-- Lack of access to various surgeries
-- Inability to play on any sports team they choose
-- Bans on entering sex-segregated spaces
-- Existing in a nation where some states--possibly not even their own--have laws they don't like
-- Not being referred to by the preferred name
-- Not being referred to by preferred pronouns
There's an old saying about not covering the world with leather, but simply donning shoes...
Ask and you shall receive: Wahrheitsverkehrungsunbehagen.
Truth inversion confusion.
Or perhaps consider: Glaubwürdigkeitsumkehrschmerz
Pain experiences over the reversal of credibility