Body dysmorphia and synthetic hormones are the lynchpins of modern bodybuilding. We have more in common w transgender folks than most.
And given that many posters here seem to value personal liberty and limits on government intrusion into our personal lives, I’d expect more sympathy. I don’t really understand transgender stuff but if some guy wants to shoot estrogen and live as a woman, more power to them.
Good take...
I support a person's individual choice. Their right to live as they want as long as it's not hurting anyone else. Live and let live so-to-speak.
What bothers me is the emphasis on that is placed on normalizing it, the contrived "joy" that we are all supposed to feel for them, the amount of catering and discussion around such a small percentage of people, the institutional changes surrounding it. The ease at which the medical community encourages it.
For example I talked to my doctor year after year for a TRT script. My test was on the low end of normal. Doctor gave me meds for depression, for elections, for wakefulness, for sleep, for anxiety. I was on so many meds I felt like a drug addict. I said "Doc, I want to try TRT. There's strong likelihood that it can treat ALL these problems and I don't have to be on a cocktail of prescription drugs just to feel well." Year after year Dr. Told me "no" your test is low but its still in the normal range. So on his website there's a drop down for something called "gender pathways" I thought wtf is this shit? I call him up and say: so let me get this correct: if im a girl and walk in here and say 'ya know Doc, i think i wanna lob off my tits and jump on some test' you're OK with that? Or I could walk in here and say: ya know doc....I think id be happier if I chopped off my dick and begin mega dosing estrogen, you'd roll out the red carpet.....but im asking you to prescribe me just a little bit more of what my body naturally produces and you're telling me No. Can you explain this?
My uneasiness isn't with individual transgender people. My problem is with all the other absurdity around it.
Its bizarre that for my entire life there's been 2 recognized sexes/genders. Male and female. And if you suggested otherwise you'd be considered crazy. Almost overnight the new math was forced on society and any questioning it is met with complete hostility and intolerance.
Even the argument is so contradictory: the argument is you can't categorize people into 2 genders because gender is a social construct. BUT then turn around and DEMAND to be called a woman and loudly, angrily assert that you are a woman- but wait you just told me it was a social construct. So my definitions are supposed to be malleable and change to fit what comforts them. But their assertions better be respected with zero tolerance?
Who decided all of this? Its weird and it doesn't make sense.
Again the individual- im fine with. The propaganda around it is right out of an orwellian dystopia.