I know several gay people. The one thing they all have in common is a long history of abuse and people enabling their mental illnesses.
1. All gay people have abuse in their history.
2. All gay people self-medicate with alcohol, cigarettes and hard drugs.
3. Most gay people have legitimate gender disorders where they hate their own body parts. Lesbian women will shop in the men’s section for everything down to underwear and shoes even though those clothes don’t fit their bodies and an identical in style clothing exists feet away in the women’s section.
I believe ALL gay people need treatment for their disorders. NOT to make the straight or conform to social norms. Rather gay people need treatment in order for them to heal and love themselves as the gender they were born with.
I have a friend who went through years of therapy because she convinced herself that she was 5 foot 10 ... Sounds nutty on it’s face, but she went so far as to have a contractor move all her kitchen cabinets up higher to accommodate her “ height” ... She was really 4 foot nine and in a series of abusive relationships - her coping mechanism? Seeing herself as tall and in control. The brain is an astonishing thing...
I have a friend who went through years of therapy because she convinced herself that she was 5 foot 10 ... Sounds nutty on it’s face, but she went so far as to have a contractor move all her kitchen cabinets up higher to accommodate her “ height” ...she also had a closet full of ‘tall’ clothing. She was really 4 foot nine and in a series of abusive relationships - her coping mechanism? Seeing herself as tall and in control. The brain is an astonishing thing.
I agree with you. I have a much younger trans gender cousin who started life as a female and now exists as Lord only knows what on “her” way to becoming a man (if someone told me 20 years ago that I would type that sentence...just saying) Anyhow. Her parents are divorced. Mom married a convict that she met online and her dad wanted nothing to do with her once he met his third wife.
This kid was an honors student who just wanted attention from people who were supposed to give it to her. When she went on this tear in pursuit of mutilation of her body, all she had to do was drive 1200 miles and hand over a few thousand dollars in order to have her breasts removed. The fact that therapy was not REQUIRED prior to this mutilation is crazy. That some might want to ban it entirely is just beyond insane. I know that gay and transgender are different. But seriously, once you start down this slippery slope it is really just splitting hairs.