Introduction Before the mid of the 20th century, no culture on the planet reassigned the sex of its individuals. The first experiments with attempts to reassign sex occurred in interwar Germany, and by the mid-20th century, clinicians working in North America created the concept of “transsexual.” By the late 20th century, a tiny proportion of the population of certain countries identified as transsexuals, and they changed their sex in their official documents. In recent decades the term transsexual fell in disuse and was replaced by transgender. Concurrently, there has been an explosion of the population in the Western Hemisphere that identifies as transgender.
This is a well-written and well-argued article that offers some interesting analytical insights into the transgender phenomenon. Of particular interest is the viral nature of American ideas, which the Internet has empowered to spread around the world, particularly to Europe. It is a sort of Montezuma's Revenge, if you'll pardon the pun, that American neo-progressive ideas are colonising Europe so readily, not just with gender ideology but also with notions of white supremacy and a very American-style racialism.
Of course, as more and more people undertake the treatments on offer (especially children, and especially those children who show a sudden emergence of the phenomenon), there will be a larger and larger share of people who regret undertaking permanent life-altering medical interventions. It remains to be seen if the edifice crumbles under the weight of its own contradictions...or, rather, it remains to be seen how long this process takes, since it is as inevitable as the downfall of any religion.
This is excellent. Well done. The argument in defense of social acceptance of transgenderism is that the cause of emotional distress is societal rejection. The difficulty is that social acceptance of sorts is creating the problem. People do not discuss the negative side-effects of transitioning: loss of sexual function, loss of sexual sensitivity, bodily harm, sterilization, etc. I think that we should encourage nobody to undergo these surgeries. And we should not be providing any gender affirming care to adolescents.
This is a well-written and well-argued article that offers some interesting analytical insights into the transgender phenomenon. Of particular interest is the viral nature of American ideas, which the Internet has empowered to spread around the world, particularly to Europe. It is a sort of Montezuma's Revenge, if you'll pardon the pun, that American neo-progressive ideas are colonising Europe so readily, not just with gender ideology but also with notions of white supremacy and a very American-style racialism.
Of course, as more and more people undertake the treatments on offer (especially children, and especially those children who show a sudden emergence of the phenomenon), there will be a larger and larger share of people who regret undertaking permanent life-altering medical interventions. It remains to be seen if the edifice crumbles under the weight of its own contradictions...or, rather, it remains to be seen how long this process takes, since it is as inevitable as the downfall of any religion.
This is excellent. Well done. The argument in defense of social acceptance of transgenderism is that the cause of emotional distress is societal rejection. The difficulty is that social acceptance of sorts is creating the problem. People do not discuss the negative side-effects of transitioning: loss of sexual function, loss of sexual sensitivity, bodily harm, sterilization, etc. I think that we should encourage nobody to undergo these surgeries. And we should not be providing any gender affirming care to adolescents.