My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy

New York Times ^ | November 24, 2018 | Andrea Long Chu

[poconopundit]

And this story show how low the NY Slimes has sunken. They are a corrupt joke.

[entropy12]

First they want gov’t (tax payers) to pay for trans gender operation. Then many are in remorse, and tax payers are asked to pay for the reversal.

[Fungi]

Bingo!! Every cell in your body has the same chromosomes, no amount of surgery, in any form, can change that. This is nothing more than mental illness. We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.

[outofsalt]

The left would encourage an abortion of a Downs syndrome child as being someone who would not have a fulfilled life.
Just sayin’...

[Big Red Badger]

with a little eye liner,,,
And a Shave.

[aquila48]

It needs sychological help not body mutilation.

[KarlInOhio]

Many conservatives call this crazy. A popular right-wing narrative holds that gender dysphoria is a clinical delusion; hence, feeding that delusion with hormones and surgeries constitutes a violation of medical ethics.

The author is slow. I had that diagnosis by the headline instead of waiting until the fourth paragraph.

XY until you die... and depending on the sensitivity of the DNA test for thousands of years afterward.

[SERKIT]

Bruce Jenner? Is that YOU?

[I want the USA back]

Call it what you want but it’s not a vagina. You desperately want to think it is. It’s a wound. Your body is right, as it was when you were conceived.

You are a man. The worst thing that happened to you was not liking the sex that you are.

You didn’t become a woman. You are a man who had his dick cut off and a permanent incision cut in the area where it was.

You are mentally ill.

[Getready]

Gonna take a Long Chew to get that thing off. Cyanide can treat suffering too. If I want to identify as a cyclops....does that give a doctor the legal and ethical sanction to cut my eye out?

[aquila48]

” I want to do it anyway ... is that OK?”

Only if you pay for it, including all the subsequent drugs you need to maintain your egotistical fantasy.

[Polyxene]

And how many men would want to get near this thing, let alone use its “vagina”???? Yuck!!!!

[piroque]

No selfies , please

[bert]

the best course seems to be to just shoot yourself

[piroque]

No selfies , please

[Jim Noble]

It’s not a vagina.

[A strike]

” Will there be a follow up article after there inevitable suicide? “

Yes, on page 6 (soon the last page of the New York Times).

[Crucial]

You just summed up the insanity of this article perfectly.

[Yaelle]

I don’t want to read the whole thing. She is wrong; the SCIENCE view of gender dysphoria is not that it is a delusion. Obviously, it is a factual discrepancy between one’s brain and one’s body. I’m sure one day one can pinpoint a place and time in space and development where this brain body disfunction occurs.

But as this patient proves, changing the body to match the brain is not wholly satisfying. For at least half, it doesn’t provide relief, which means it is a scientifically proven BAD TREATMENT.

We need a treatment more advanced than this primitive binary “transitioning.” We are both our brains and our bodies. In some ways, the ground gained for treating all disabilities has included a lot of social acceptance. There needs to be full social and self acceptance for people who are not comfortable in their gender. We don’t need to change our world or try and change truth for them. We just need to have love and empathy for people who had this clearly devastating condition.

[Lurkinanloomin]

There’s a .45 caliber cure for this sickness.