re: Why do they call it transphobic?

Stupidity

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call it transphobic

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There's are palpable qualms about the transsexual transformation of America. Even at the southern border prospective new immigrants are asked by agents what pronouns they prefer to use.

So there's a real fear of radical change throughout the land. Transphobia is a thing

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These people are not well.

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Exactly.

That's why it's not "silly" at all.

Mental illness (which people do not have a choice about) exists, and sometimes it causes people to feel in ways that do not correspond to reality.

The silliness is in the labeling.

The trans community doesn't want to be labeled as suffering from mental illness. They want to be affirmed.

The issue is that a lot of well-intentioned (perhaps?) people are doing just that. They are rewriting the book on mental illness as related to body dysmorphic disorder, dysphoria, etc. The idea is that it's their "normal."

This is akin to asking a schizophrenic person their preferred delusion of choice and affirming it. The mirror talks to you? Yes, yes of course. It has a name? Thank you. What is it? Lady, Scottsdale.

You can see how this leads to very silly interactions. The patients are literally running the asylum.

Deviancy gets a bad reputation for a good reason. Straying from the norm tends to isolate and exclude. The extremes are people like hermits that eschew all human contact and the flamboyant person that can't get enough attention.

One side is never bored within their own mind space. The other would be bored while being bombarded with stimulation. We tend to focus on the overstimulated brains, because they are the ones constantly craving attention/affirmation.

I would posit that a great deal of the psychological damage is caused by something as simple as overexposure to damaging messaging. They are not "born this way." They are brainwashed at malleable ages. You don't need to be a scientist to understand what is going on in social media. It is a poison to the underdeveloped mind.

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They are not "born this way." They are brainwashed at malleable ages. You don't need to be a scientist to understand what is going on in social media. It is a poison to the underdeveloped mind.

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I don't mean to burst that bubble, but there were gay people before social media existed. Or the internet. Or t.v. Or the radio. Or movies. Or anything that could reasonably be accused of "brainwashing" people.

For most of human history being homosexual was not lauded by society (I know in certain times and places it was—specifically toward the decline and destruction of a civilization, but this represents the minority of history), yet it has always existed.

LGBTQ activists claim that means it's normal and healthy. I think that's nonsense. Alcoholism and pedophilia have also always existed and they are clearly not normal or healthy.

However, it IS strong evidence that people ARE generally compelled to have those same sex attractions just like the pedophile is attracted to children. I don't think either one is a choice, and I don't think either one is normal, and I don't think either one is to be encouraged or indulged.

I guess you think pedophiles are also brainwashed and "not born that way?" If not, why not?

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I don't mean to burst that bubble, but there were gay people before social media existed.

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Clearly. But I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that people weren't being brainwashed before mass media. The effects of grooming are as old as time itself as well. Child abuse frequently leads to sexual deviancy. Social media is just a socially accepted form of child abuse.

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I guess you think pedophiles are also brainwashed and "not born that way?" If not, why not?

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Again. There's definitely things that make a person more susceptible to programming than others.

Dig into a child abusers history and you will see that they were abused as children as well. Does that make it "okay"? No. But it does shed light as to where these predilections come from.

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I don't mean to burst that bubble, but there were gay people before social media existed.


Clearly. But I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that people weren't being brainwashed before mass media. The effects of grooming are as old as time itself as well. Child abuse frequently leads to sexual deviancy. Social media is just a socially accepted form of child abuse.

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I guess you think pedophiles are also brainwashed and "not born that way?" If not, why not?


Again. There's definitely things that make a person more susceptible to programming than others.

Dig into a child abusers history and you will see that they were abused as children as well. Does that make it "okay"? No. But it does shed light as to where these predilections come from.

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O.k.

I mostly disagree (which is to say that I think people can end up with a distorted sexuality because of abuse, but I think the notion that it doesn't happen any other way is asinine), but again, it doesn't really matter to me and I remain puzzled as to why people think it is such an important distinction.

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There is something else causing this mass psychosis.

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Social media plus planned detachment from social norms.

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Social media plus planned detachment from social norms.

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Single parent homes, secular education, feminism, dietary changes, as well.

There's no telling how many unintended (or intended) changes to the social norms that are affecting the development of humans and human behavior.