I’m surprised it took this long, but we’ve arrived. Calling that ‘persistent discomfort (dysphoria) with his or her own sex,’ a “Gender Identity disorder” is outdated. Guess why? It wasn’t difficult, was it? It has the word disorder in it.
We come to this modern revelation thanks to Yale University and a hefty endowment. Some of which has been set aside to help men who think they are women afford “facial feminization surgery.”
The procedure can run $20-50K according to The College Fix and #Woke Yale has come to the rescue. But that’s not the problem. It is how they announced it that was offensive.
The announcement email called the procedure “facial feminization for gender identity disorder.” The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences defines the disorder as “marked and persistent identification with the opposite sex and persistent discomfort (dysphoria) with his or her own sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex.”
Yale is apologizing for how it described its coverage of what is an entirely elective procedure. But once you’re #woke you don’t stay that way. You have to keep aiming for the moving target or find yourself canceled by the tolerant and inclusive left.
Our advice is to not even go there. Once you sacrifice your objective right to the language you will forever be dancing to their tune.
Yale teaches it, breathes it, lives by it, and peddles it (at overpriced rates in exchange for a useless degree). The only hope for them is a purge of faculty and curriculum or a sudden rebellion against paying for what they are selling.
Not much chance of that but I can hope.
Oh, and the new correct term of the moment is “gender confirmation surgery.”
