Hat tip out of the gate to Brian Lewis (Grok: Words Mean Things Oct 23rd ) for subscribing to my Substack and, in doing so, allowing me to follow him and find this – a different Substack called The Radical Center, and this content in particular: Transphobia is a False Premise.
It’s an excellent read, and in it, I found, having pondered the subject often (the gender cult), two bits in particular that I wanted to share.
In the case of “transphobia,” phobia is being redefined: “Transphobia” is “fear OR HATRED” of transgender people. The word was originally coined in the late 1980s or early ‘90s, but really only began to be used in popular culture sometime in the 2010s.
Hatred not typically a defining part of other phobias. And other phobias are identified by the phobic individual. I will know if I am terrified of spiders. With “transphobia,” your phobia is identified by someone else- despite your own belief that you are not “transphobic” you can receive this label from an outside source if you say or do something deemed offensive or insensitive. It’s not really a “phobia” at all, then- it’s more of an epithet or pejorative political label.
This application applies almost universally to similar terms mishandled and mangled by the political left. Homophobia has been used with similar intensity over the past few decades – right up until the proglodytes kicked gay men (who dared to disagree) off the victim class totem poll and replaced them with any man who identifies as a woman. Gay men just wanted to be left alone, but the left can’t leave anyone alone (we warned you – most recently, here), and daring to object to the transing of children or giving male sex predators access to girls and women gets you kicked off the island. You might as well be Donald Trump.
Some of those men voted for Donald Trump. A lot more than some, actually.
The second bit.
Is Gender Affirming Care necessary mental health support or elective cosmetic medicine?
If gender is independent of and not about your body, why must the body be altered to affirm gender?
If it’s mental health care, why is the only treatment to lean into the disorder? …
Why accept that this disorder is permanent and reify it, unlike with other disorders where we try to resolve them or alleviate symptoms?
If it’s elective cosmetic medicine, why build mental health campaigns around it and why encourage very young people to access it?
There’s meat between those bones if you want to feast on it, but I found wonder in the simplicity of the questions. Useful when encountering others who defend the practice. Things you can say without showing a partisan hand.
Why indeed?
The obvious answer is that none of this has anything to do with children, mental health, preventing suicide, or aligning body and mind. Luckily, most of the rank-and-file supporters of transgenderizing kids don’t realize that, and the fence sitters who’d prefer the subject not come up at all haven’t put much thought into the topic. You, dear reader, can ask one or all of them in whatever passes for polite internet company. It might then become less than polite depending on who chimes in, but the rabid advocate can’t answer them either, and those are the best kind.
Calling you a bigot, racist, etc., as you know, isn’t an answer, but sometimes you battle trolls, not to slay them or their narrative but so others can see how it’s done or to who them a light they’d otherwise not find.
“If gender is independent of and not about your body, why must the body be altered to affirm gender?”
“Is Gender Affirming Care necessary mental health support or elective cosmetic medicine?”
We already know it doesn’t reduce or prevent suicide, so what, then, is the point?
