Mid twenties now and I do wonder if he found being a boy so hard that he joined the fashion and tried being a girl. But he expresses no femininity at all. We’ve reverted to using his given name & birth gender. Don’t they realise that there’s no return button if ever they change their mind if there is ever a future on this current weird & unsatisfactory planet? I’m getting rather good at putting my head in the sand. Woke I am NOT & will never be. Dinosaurs forever 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😠
Shocked by the cat thing. I’m sure I’d have to laugh. Dinner on the floor or outside. Diggging holes in the garden (in rhe rain ). Etc. funnier & funnier.
I think there's a lot to your speculation that your grandson found that being a boy was hard. Boys are pumped full of this nonsense about 'toxic masculinity' from such a young age now, and there are so few good role models around to teach boys how to be good men.
I have watched what I wanted to watch out of that. Very informative discussions! Thanks!
So if people have war memorabilia, and they're selling something with a swastika on it, they're committing a crime?! Gee. Seriously? I think that's rather different to rallying as a Neo-Nazi on the streets! But now, it's all one and the same crime, eh?
You know, I'm kind of wondering how things will be when I get back to working as a Health Professional. Wondering when someone might complain about me, that is! The more I think/read/discuss it all, I'm not cool with transgender stuff - and a guy who thinks he's a girl still has a male pelvis when he's on my table! It's a bit hard to see these guys as gals when my fingers can feel that they're guys! This transgender stuff is so not normal. Hell, being gay is not 'normal' either, but we've had gay people in very small percentages for as long as we look back on humanity. Gay I don't have a problem with, though. Sure, it's not 'normal' in terms of most of humanity being 'straight', but that's how you were born and that's how it is. But believing you were born in the wrong body and you need to have all sorts of bits chopped off - or created - so your body sits right with your headspace...? Ummm....mental health check, anyone?!?!? I'm sure it's gruelling for people with these sorts of identity crises, but please PLEASE don't put your grievances upon society at large, let alone try to normalise them!!
Dress-ups I'm fine with, but PERMANENT dress-ups?! What if I was a kid who 'identified' as a cat? Went to school with my cat's tail on, and my kitty cat ears on my head. What if I miaowed my answers to the teacher? Ate my raw meat at lunchtime from my lunchbox, with my mouth (no paws/hands)? And crawled around everywhere? When would warning bells start to sound?! Would I be offered surgery to make me grow big whiskers or have a permanent tail? Would I be offered hormones to make me grow fur/hair all over my body? Or would I be taken to the psychologist/psychiatrist and told to snap the hell out of it?!?!
What if I were anorexic? Would I find sympathetic doctors that told me, yes, my arms were indeed too fat, and that I needed to lose more weight - because then I'd be perfect, and my body would match the ideal in my head? No. They don't do that. The docs try to get you to eat more food because they know that without intervention, an anorexia nervosa patient would end up dead. From malnutrition/starvation.
So I must ask WHY do people pander to this nonsense in one's head about being born in the wrong body? It's just another case of 'body dysmorphic syndrome' plain and simple.
I wish people would wake up.
Oh. Wait. We're living in the Twilight Zone. And most of the sheep are asleep. Silly me!
Anyway, yes, this 'chestfeeding' nonsense is also that - nonsense! I don't think it would matter what hormones you inject a guy with, the fluid from their 'breasts' just wouldn't contain the right nutrition. And if there was any nutrition, I seriously doubt a baby would survive on JUST that from its birth (from a WOMAN) until 6+ months of age.
You can't just plonk a pile of hormones into a fully grown man and miraculously expect him to breastfeed as a woman does! It's a lot more complicated than that if you're trying to FEED a child ALL its nutrition!
In this link above I found some interesting comments:
"Out of over 4,000 species of mammal, the only one where males spontaneously produce milk is an Indonesian fruit bat. Nobody knows why."
"Men are born with the basic equipment to lactate. They have pituitary glands, milk ducts, and nipples. What they don’t have is the advantage of the natural hormonal changes that occur naturally during puberty and pregnancy in order to prepare the female body for childbirth and lactation."
"Because lactation in males is so uncommon, we don’t know much about it. Questions like how long it will take to produce milk, the amount that will be produced, and whether the milk contains the same nutrients and antibodies as mother’s breast milk have yet to be answered."
"For now, mothers will [be] the ones to feed their babies from the breast, but fathers can be involved with nurturing and caring for their little ones in many other ways."
Totally agree with you on the transgender front: I refuse to buy into someone's delusion about biological reality. A man in a dress is still a man. A man who has had his testicles removed, and his penis fashioned into the simulacrum of a vagina, is a man who has undergone genital mutilation surgery. He is NOT a woman. And yes, he should get caring and effective psychological help for his highly distressing body dysmorphia, in the same way that a person with anorexia does. He sure as hell shouldn't be encouraged to believe that he can take on the responsibility of nourishing an infant with the drug-induced secretions that emerge from his nipples.
Should your identity as a cat be affirmed by others? Don't laugh; that's happening in some schools, where teachers have been instructed to go along with disturbed children who wear cat suits to school and communicate by miaowing.
Yep, we're living in the Twilight Zone!
I used to be inclined to just 'live and let live' on these matters, but I've changed my point of view. The inversion of reality that we're currently being subjected to is an existential threat to the survival of our species. I refuse to kowtow to these ridiculous demands to 'affirm' psychologically unwell people and to censor my own speech (and even thoughts).
Yep, just like you, I used to not worry too much about the transgender thing. But it's trying to become mainstream. And that's NOT good. So yes, I too have changed my point of view.
I can see both sides, but ultimately, it IS body dysmorphia. There are Drs still deregistered because they have our same views. What sort of world do we live in where one is deregistered or taken to court because of speaking THE TRUTH?!?!?
But hey, many of my maternal ancestors were Methodist Ministers, and one lot got chased out of Sweden in the 1800s (on fear of death) for preaching dangerous things such as Practical Christianity and Abstinence (of alcohol)! Hardly crimes in my books. If you don't want to go to the church, don't! You can keep drinking and not believe in God. It's fine! But no, these preachers must be persecuted and chased out of the country or even be killed for their beliefs, right?! It's not like my ancestors were breaking into people's houses, subjecting people's kids to their sermons against their will, forcing them to accept God. Nope. None of that. Well, OK, so I'm sure they harassed a few people on the streets, like any god-bothering preacher does, I'll give them that, but compared to what's going on today, that was child's play. And they were still threatened with death if they stayed.
I guess humans haven't changed that much. Perhaps we're just as naive and impressionable as we always were...
With my changing views, like yours, I thought maybe I was just becoming more conservative as I got older, but no, it's much deeper than that. This trans drive is morally wrong for ANY species. The more we veer away from the biological norm, the more depraved and dangerous a society - ANY society - becomes. By any means, what you do in your own bedroom is up to you. But don't bring it into the streets, into our libraries, into our schools and jam it into our faces. But they have. And they're being given the green light by the idiots in power to do it. Now we have drag queens in sexually explicit clothing reading to kiddies in libraries. With their parents watching! And strange trans teachers with obvious problems. And the schools are OK with it. And they are teaching sexual content to little kidlets in class that are WELL beyond their years! No wonder we have protests worldwide about this stuff!
Thanks for your updates on the Nazi symbols. Nazis certainly weren't good, but to ban anything about them, when it's a part of our human history (albeit a horrible history) is weird. Next thing we know, the mainstream will be fact-checking the Holocaust and saying it never happened, because there are no Nazis and no swastikas...so how could it possibly be true?!
You'd think people read '1984' and might've learned something from it. But it seems all they learned was how to try to make it a reality...
We have a grandson going through this charade.
Mid twenties now and I do wonder if he found being a boy so hard that he joined the fashion and tried being a girl. But he expresses no femininity at all. We’ve reverted to using his given name & birth gender. Don’t they realise that there’s no return button if ever they change their mind if there is ever a future on this current weird & unsatisfactory planet? I’m getting rather good at putting my head in the sand. Woke I am NOT & will never be. Dinosaurs forever 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😠
Shocked by the cat thing. I’m sure I’d have to laugh. Dinner on the floor or outside. Diggging holes in the garden (in rhe rain ). Etc. funnier & funnier.
I think there's a lot to your speculation that your grandson found that being a boy was hard. Boys are pumped full of this nonsense about 'toxic masculinity' from such a young age now, and there are so few good role models around to teach boys how to be good men.
I have watched what I wanted to watch out of that. Very informative discussions! Thanks!
So if people have war memorabilia, and they're selling something with a swastika on it, they're committing a crime?! Gee. Seriously? I think that's rather different to rallying as a Neo-Nazi on the streets! But now, it's all one and the same crime, eh?
You know, I'm kind of wondering how things will be when I get back to working as a Health Professional. Wondering when someone might complain about me, that is! The more I think/read/discuss it all, I'm not cool with transgender stuff - and a guy who thinks he's a girl still has a male pelvis when he's on my table! It's a bit hard to see these guys as gals when my fingers can feel that they're guys! This transgender stuff is so not normal. Hell, being gay is not 'normal' either, but we've had gay people in very small percentages for as long as we look back on humanity. Gay I don't have a problem with, though. Sure, it's not 'normal' in terms of most of humanity being 'straight', but that's how you were born and that's how it is. But believing you were born in the wrong body and you need to have all sorts of bits chopped off - or created - so your body sits right with your headspace...? Ummm....mental health check, anyone?!?!? I'm sure it's gruelling for people with these sorts of identity crises, but please PLEASE don't put your grievances upon society at large, let alone try to normalise them!!
Dress-ups I'm fine with, but PERMANENT dress-ups?! What if I was a kid who 'identified' as a cat? Went to school with my cat's tail on, and my kitty cat ears on my head. What if I miaowed my answers to the teacher? Ate my raw meat at lunchtime from my lunchbox, with my mouth (no paws/hands)? And crawled around everywhere? When would warning bells start to sound?! Would I be offered surgery to make me grow big whiskers or have a permanent tail? Would I be offered hormones to make me grow fur/hair all over my body? Or would I be taken to the psychologist/psychiatrist and told to snap the hell out of it?!?!
What if I were anorexic? Would I find sympathetic doctors that told me, yes, my arms were indeed too fat, and that I needed to lose more weight - because then I'd be perfect, and my body would match the ideal in my head? No. They don't do that. The docs try to get you to eat more food because they know that without intervention, an anorexia nervosa patient would end up dead. From malnutrition/starvation.
So I must ask WHY do people pander to this nonsense in one's head about being born in the wrong body? It's just another case of 'body dysmorphic syndrome' plain and simple.
I wish people would wake up.
Oh. Wait. We're living in the Twilight Zone. And most of the sheep are asleep. Silly me!
Anyway, yes, this 'chestfeeding' nonsense is also that - nonsense! I don't think it would matter what hormones you inject a guy with, the fluid from their 'breasts' just wouldn't contain the right nutrition. And if there was any nutrition, I seriously doubt a baby would survive on JUST that from its birth (from a WOMAN) until 6+ months of age.
You can't just plonk a pile of hormones into a fully grown man and miraculously expect him to breastfeed as a woman does! It's a lot more complicated than that if you're trying to FEED a child ALL its nutrition!
https://www.breastfeedingbasics.com/qa/can-men-breastfeed
In this link above I found some interesting comments:
"Out of over 4,000 species of mammal, the only one where males spontaneously produce milk is an Indonesian fruit bat. Nobody knows why."
"Men are born with the basic equipment to lactate. They have pituitary glands, milk ducts, and nipples. What they don’t have is the advantage of the natural hormonal changes that occur naturally during puberty and pregnancy in order to prepare the female body for childbirth and lactation."
"Because lactation in males is so uncommon, we don’t know much about it. Questions like how long it will take to produce milk, the amount that will be produced, and whether the milk contains the same nutrients and antibodies as mother’s breast milk have yet to be answered."
"For now, mothers will [be] the ones to feed their babies from the breast, but fathers can be involved with nurturing and caring for their little ones in many other ways."
On the Nazi symbols front, C.J. Hopkins is under criminal investigation for having the image of a swastika superimposed on a face nappy, on the cover of his book on COVID totalitarianism - see https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/political-satirist-ie-me-under-criminal.
But it's totally fine for Ukrainian soldiers to wear Nazi symbols because... it's their culture, or something: https://archive.md/DSvIn.
Also fine for Instagram to direct people to kiddie porn: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-section-230-and-instagrams-child.
Totally agree with you on the transgender front: I refuse to buy into someone's delusion about biological reality. A man in a dress is still a man. A man who has had his testicles removed, and his penis fashioned into the simulacrum of a vagina, is a man who has undergone genital mutilation surgery. He is NOT a woman. And yes, he should get caring and effective psychological help for his highly distressing body dysmorphia, in the same way that a person with anorexia does. He sure as hell shouldn't be encouraged to believe that he can take on the responsibility of nourishing an infant with the drug-induced secretions that emerge from his nipples.
Should your identity as a cat be affirmed by others? Don't laugh; that's happening in some schools, where teachers have been instructed to go along with disturbed children who wear cat suits to school and communicate by miaowing.
Yep, we're living in the Twilight Zone!
I used to be inclined to just 'live and let live' on these matters, but I've changed my point of view. The inversion of reality that we're currently being subjected to is an existential threat to the survival of our species. I refuse to kowtow to these ridiculous demands to 'affirm' psychologically unwell people and to censor my own speech (and even thoughts).
OK, rant over LOL.
Yep, just like you, I used to not worry too much about the transgender thing. But it's trying to become mainstream. And that's NOT good. So yes, I too have changed my point of view.
I can see both sides, but ultimately, it IS body dysmorphia. There are Drs still deregistered because they have our same views. What sort of world do we live in where one is deregistered or taken to court because of speaking THE TRUTH?!?!?
But hey, many of my maternal ancestors were Methodist Ministers, and one lot got chased out of Sweden in the 1800s (on fear of death) for preaching dangerous things such as Practical Christianity and Abstinence (of alcohol)! Hardly crimes in my books. If you don't want to go to the church, don't! You can keep drinking and not believe in God. It's fine! But no, these preachers must be persecuted and chased out of the country or even be killed for their beliefs, right?! It's not like my ancestors were breaking into people's houses, subjecting people's kids to their sermons against their will, forcing them to accept God. Nope. None of that. Well, OK, so I'm sure they harassed a few people on the streets, like any god-bothering preacher does, I'll give them that, but compared to what's going on today, that was child's play. And they were still threatened with death if they stayed.
I guess humans haven't changed that much. Perhaps we're just as naive and impressionable as we always were...
With my changing views, like yours, I thought maybe I was just becoming more conservative as I got older, but no, it's much deeper than that. This trans drive is morally wrong for ANY species. The more we veer away from the biological norm, the more depraved and dangerous a society - ANY society - becomes. By any means, what you do in your own bedroom is up to you. But don't bring it into the streets, into our libraries, into our schools and jam it into our faces. But they have. And they're being given the green light by the idiots in power to do it. Now we have drag queens in sexually explicit clothing reading to kiddies in libraries. With their parents watching! And strange trans teachers with obvious problems. And the schools are OK with it. And they are teaching sexual content to little kidlets in class that are WELL beyond their years! No wonder we have protests worldwide about this stuff!
Thanks for your updates on the Nazi symbols. Nazis certainly weren't good, but to ban anything about them, when it's a part of our human history (albeit a horrible history) is weird. Next thing we know, the mainstream will be fact-checking the Holocaust and saying it never happened, because there are no Nazis and no swastikas...so how could it possibly be true?!
You'd think people read '1984' and might've learned something from it. But it seems all they learned was how to try to make it a reality...