Normalizing the Abnormal

Julia Baird is on a mission. She wants us to think that something that is an illness is not an illness because stating as much makes certain people feel bad.

Boo hoo.

Transgender men and women are not banned from serving by congressional law, but by military medical codes. These codes classify being transgender as a psychological disorder, which was in line with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III, published in 1980. But the latest edition of the manual, the D.S.M.-5, released last May, replaced “Gender Identity Disorder” with “gender dysphoria.” The point of the change, according to the American Psychiatric Association, was to make it clear that “gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder.”

Right. So there aren't any civil rights violations but since the folks feel that they are "normal" the rest of us should as well. See the problem is US, not them.

But lets tackle this one right quick. The argument here is that those persons who are born "feeling" they are one gender and "trapped' in the body of another want us to believe that there is a problem with the body and not the brain. The reason for that is that currently there is no way to fix the brain so rather than "deal with it", they do all manner of things to a perfectly healthy and functioning body and then tell us they are "fixed"

Sure. If you want to believe that go right ahead. Why are the rest of us to be subject to their grand delusion?

Seriously though. In what other mental illness do we mangle the body in order to fix the feelings of the client?

This is why I do not accept anyone who tells me they are the opposite of what their genetic gender is. I don't have to accept someone else's idiocy as reality. I see the agenda here. Such logical thinking will be (or is already) considered hate speech. It's a sad state of affairs. People want to tell you up is down and down is up and then want to punish you for refusing to accept such nonsense.

And this whole "being true to themselves" line is stupid. Yourself is your body. All of it. If you seek to mangle it there is a problem and it certainly is not "being true to yourself". But remember, up is down and down is up.