https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-t...g-is-here/

"Last week, the Cass Report, written by the pediatrician Hilary Cass at the request of England’s National Health Service, made waves by calling into question the medical justification for hormonal and surgical treatments of gender-dysphoric youth demanded by activist groups and embraced by the medical establishment. The report states that the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones should be discontinued, not least because their long-term effects are unknown. Instead of taking narrow claims of dysphoria at face value, Cass adopts a holistic approach, arguing that such statements must be considered “within the context of poor mental health and emotional distress among the broader adolescent population.”...

In 1996, René Girard wrote an essay titled “Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire.” Many people have noted that the desire to identify as “trans”—much like eating disorders (the two in fact are often correlated, as Cass finds)—has a strong mimetic dimension. Entire groups of teenage girls suddenly start identifying as “boys” or as “nonbinary,” just as girls often emulate each other through starving and purging in their quest for competitive thinness. As Girard observed: “The compulsive dieters really want to be thin, and most of us are secretly aware of this, because most of us also want to be thin....""

<I've often compared gender dysphoria to anorexia--they both seem to flow from the same insecurities where the problem is NOT the person's body>

Common sense. No doctorate required.

(04-20-2024 01:31 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Common sense. No doctorate required.

Ironically those with Doctorates appear to be the people with the least amount of common sense.

(04-22-2024 06:22 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(04-20-2024 01:31 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Common sense. No doctorate required.

Ironically those with Doctorates appear to be the people with the least amount of common sense.

You noticed that too did you?

It will take a lot more than this to turn the tide. But still, some signs of sanity are always welcome.

Females... can't live with them, can't live without them and you know the rest. Think about it, so many females run things these days it's no wonder so much of the world is fuqed up.

I have a slightly different perspective.

Females... can't live with them, can't kill them.

(04-22-2024 09:35 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I have a slightly different perspective.

Females... can't live with them, can't kill them.

Lol, you said it better.