Posted on 07/31/2004 7:08:01 AM PDT by aculeus
Talk about depression! I guess so!!
My goodness, the Drs. ought to have their licenses revolked!!!!
Just think about the parents.....
He's a he...........no wait.......it's a she
.........oh no..........it's a he...............
Oh my, what does it look like to you, honey?
Gotta admit: that decision "took real balls"
Well duh.
If you hated your arm and wanted to cut it off you would be treated as having a psychological disorder. You would not be treated by having a surgeon cut off your arm.
Yes, these poor, poor people really do suffer terribly. If you read the article the jokes die on your lips. This is madness and these people have been permitted to thoroughly destroy their lives. How wretched they must be. But society tells them this is permissible and society pays for these surgical atrocities. (Let's not forget that last bit: these procedures are horrendously expensive and I'm sure none of these fundamentally unsuccessful people are footing the bill themselves.)
"I can't see ..I can't see"
This is one of the most depressing articles I've read here on FR - what a freakshow this transgender bs is. Just because something is surgically possible don't mean it should be done. Talk about not messing with mother nature. I gotta wash the stench off me now. Oh yuuuuuuck.
Looking into the crystal ball - five years from now scotus will say it's ok for transgender couples and singles to adopt children. And then, of course, scotus will decide that being a pedophile is just a lifestyle choice. For a nation that does so much, as they say, "for the children", abortion and gay adoption kind of seems, I don't know, just plain wrong.
"First of all, there is no such thing as a sex change."
Funny, but I never thought of it quite that way before. You are right, if it were all that simple the dairy farmers could simply alter all the extra bulls and produce a lot more milk.
But if you hated your brain and you cut it out, you would be seen as a typical democrat.
Only it's not "her" now --- but it's not "him" either --- maybe "it". Watch something like this become a new fad among the weirdos --- become genderless --- just smoothies.
Actually there are such people. They want to have one or more limbs amputated. I forget the term. Some surgeous have actually done this. The world has gone mad.
Yes --- that's true but it still doesn't make something like this less funny or weird.
Are you sure he didn't already wear glasses because of it?
'Happiness' is a state of mind. It can't be bought, sold, surgically removed or attached!
"...started life as Mark Dainton in 1967". The guy is a eunch. Period.
I've always had a theory that the worse thing that can happen to a person is to get their heart's desire.
I've seen people obsess over things for years - possessions, people, jobs, houses - to the point where they think "if only...then I will be happy, finally".
9 times out of 10 when they finally succeed they fall into a depression, because it didn't change their lives into the miracle they had emotionally invested it with all that time.
I can imagine it's a lot worse when that obsession includes body mutilation and your general sense of self. I'm just surprised it's not more common. I bet it is, and they just refuse to acknowledge they are still unhappy, because that would destroy them.
In our Freudianized society, people have been told for at least the last 40 years that the only thing that makes people happy is sex, and that the genuine goal of life is to have as much sex as possible.
So naturally people who are unhappy in our society assume that it all has to do with sex. And if you're really unhappy, you can no doubt convince yourself that you're really the wrong sex, which is why you are unable to attain the Freudian life goal of more and more sex, and that if this "mistake" could be "corrected" all would be well.
Of course, this is totally nuts, but then, so are most of the people who feel that way, and unfortunately they've found themselves in a society that feeds their delusion because it also believes that the whole goal of one's life is sex.
Albeit, if "society tells them this [the castration] is permissible" is the accelerator, than mandating that the individual,not society, should himself pay for the procedure should be the brake.If wanted bad enough, whether castration, plastic surgery, an ocean cruise around the world, or new roof, a person will find the money for it.
"Society" pays for things like curbs, street lights, waste treatment plants,etc. b/c society (a conglomerate of men and women) benefit from such expenditure. Taxpayers footing the bill for self/self directed-mutilation (castration, body piercing, etc.) benefits no one ...not even, apparently, the recipient.
" If you hated your arm and wanted to cut it off you would be treated as having a psychological disorder. You would not be treated by having a surgeon cut off your arm."
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While that used to be universally true, there are people who do hate their limbs and want them cut off and just as we had doctors who became willing to mutilate for sex changes, we already have some physicians who now advocate taking off healthy limbs for the psycological well-being of these obviously disturbed souls.
We now live in a world where, over time, all manner of deviant thought is proclaimed as normal and helped on it's way to infect yet more of our lost and rudderless children. No matter the deviancy, the medical stamp of approval is sought to help those who are consumed by it to continue on without the burden of guilt or remorse. The problem is, we are not a better, safer, nor happier society because of it. We are only more confused, depressed, and angry and we breed more of the same.
Since medicine seeks to reduce everything to the physical, they seek to make people well by declaring more and more as normal and healthy and attacking whatever is left of the problem with a scalpel and some pills. They do the people who suffer from these disorders few favors and only keep the line waiting at the revolving door of misery moving.
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