YangSupporter said:

I think it has more to do with the fact that its more socially acceptable to come out as transgender.

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Near Dylan said:

The OP's reasoning seems "pulled out the ass", so to speak. Baseless speculation. Off the top of his head.

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Near Dylan said:

YangSupporter said:

I think it has more to do with the fact that its more socially acceptable to come out as transgender.

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Mhm. Reading a history book will confirm. Transsexuality (and even homosexuality but let's not open that can of worms....) has massive peaks in history in certain cultures. Directly related to it's acceptance. No this was not exclusive to "nobility" and elites like many claim. I think true-blue gender dysphoria exists, but is uncommon as all fuck. I think the rise in transexuality is directly due to cultural influence and I think the evidence is overwhelming and undeniable.

The OP's reasoning seems "pulled out the ass", so to speak. Baseless speculation. Off the top of his head.

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Near Dylan said:

Wow, it is almost like people are debating a common topic of debate craaazy

If you dont wanna participate you dont have to.

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Yeah except it's not debating when you're all arguing 9,000 different directions and strawmanning one another the entire thread.

Don't get mad at me for having logical standards rooted in conceptual fucking consistency, unlike 90% of you here.

You don't have to logic if you don't want to, just don't pretend you are when you aren't.

It's almost like there are people who think deeper than you on topics, craaaazy bro!

Daijo said:

Eminence said:

Lots of predators pushing the LGBTQ+ sickness. It seems to be a magnet for pedophiles.

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LGBTQ+ is a sickness pushed by predators and attracts pedophiles.

Interesting. Very eloquent.

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AmericanPsycho said:

I read an article on this topic recently and I thought it was interesting.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/201811/why-is-transgender-identity-the-rise-among-teens

"many of the youth in the survey had been directly exposed to one or more peers who had recently "come out" as trans. Next, 63.5 percent of the parents reported that in the time just before announcing they were trans, their child had exhibited a marked increase in Internet and social media consumption"

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Asante said:

First of all, I want to extend my minority solidarity to people who are transgender. I empathize with the struggle, the hard journey of authentic transgenderedness. I once wrote a tuturial on how to make estradiol blotter for a transgender friend who has since handed it down so, I'm sympathetic to the cause.

But, I see transgender, in most cases, as an illness.

Hold the phone.

I define transgender as a discrepancy between body gender and brain gender, a discrepanjcy leading to dysphoria and a lifelong struggle.

I'm not saying that a person with a penis who feels they should be a woman, has a mental problem.

I'm saying that I believe that in most cases that the "gender settings" of the body and the brain are at odds, and that this constitutes the problem.

The body and brain were constructed due to differing gender blueprints.

Personally, and no offense to transgendrs intended, I see the reason for the increase in the transgender condition as being the presence of endocrine disruptors in the food and environment of pregnant women.

Endocrine disruptors, such as BPA are all around us in great quantity. A CD or DVD disc is 80% BPA, to name just one. Endocrine disruptors disrupt the balance of hormones.

Many endocrine disruptors cross the placenta.

Hormonal balances in the foetus regulate the development of characteristics.

The body and brain gestate at different times during the pregnancy.

I can totally see why external alterations in the hormonal balance in the foetus, such as by varying levels of endocrine disruptor levels, can lead to a higher incidence of the genderedmness of the body and brain being genuinely at odds.


So, to summarize, what I believe:

-Transgender is a physical condition, not something a person thinks but something that is a biological reality.
-Genuine transgenders are "born that way", the discrepancy they experience is genuine.
-increase in occurrance of transgender is due to increase of hormonal disruption during pregnancy.


Most Transgenders are not happy about being Transgender. A desire for the physical gender to match the mental gender defines their struggle. They are duped by this discrepancy, and this is why I consider this discrepancy an illness - because I see it as a valid medical condition that reflects a biological reality, which presents a great burden to them.

Therefore, I consider hormonal and surgical treatments, if desired, entirely justified.

When I deal with a person in everyday life I deal with their mind and not their physical genitals, so as a person is predominantly defined by their mind, it is the body that is at odds with the mind and that the mind's gender takes precedence.


That's my opinion in a nutshell.

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