Peak Trans

I used to tell my parents I wanted to be a girl when I was a preteen, largely because at that age I perceived society's double standards against boys and felt that girls were better liked and better treated by adults. Apparently (I don't remember this) I used to say I wanted to start wearing dresses etc. Not really sure how long this phase lasted, but I'm assuming it was when I was around 6 or 7 and was very acutely affected by everything from "ladies first" and "never hit a girl even if she hits you" to "girls are better than boys at school" and all that crap. That stuff used to make me unimaginably angry as a child and I distinctly remember perceiving massive injustice based on all that. I started becoming interested in current affairs and listening to the news from a much younger age than most, so this may have been part of it.

It makes my blood run cold to think that if I expressed these sentiments as a child now, in the late 2010s, that the entire course of my life might have been shifted by hormonal medication and surgery. It's genuinely terrifying to me that we're allowing people who society has decided can't be trusted to make the decision to vote, to drink, to drive, hell to even get a tattoo in many cases, to decide to make utterly life-changing medical decisions based on what are very often fleeting and shallow childhood musings.

All I can say is that I'm seriously glad I didn't grow up in the 2010s. I'm a lad through and through and I adore being a guy, political issues aside.

It boggles my mind that anyone can defend what's going on with regard to fundamentally and permanently allowing children to make these life-altering decisions which could easily end up f*cking up their entire lives should the phase pass and they end up regretting making that choice. I know I would have.

Obviously gender dysphoria is a real and serious issue, but if we're literally blazing a trail past this as a medical issue and making such decisions based on how children feel over short periods of time, that's just utterly f*cking insane.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I used to tell my parents I wanted to be a girl when I was a preteen, largely because at that age I perceived society's double standards against boys and felt that girls were better liked and better treated by adults. Apparently (I don't remember this) I used to say I wanted to start wearing dresses etc. Not really sure how long this phase lasted, but I'm assuming it was when I was around 6 or 7 and was very acutely affected by everything from "ladies first" and "never hit a girl even if she hits you" to "girls are better than boys at school" and all that crap. That stuff used to make me unimaginably angry as a child and I distinctly remember perceiving massive injustice based on all that. I started becoming interested in current affairs and listening to the news from a much younger age than most, so this may have been part of it.

It makes my blood run cold to think that if I expressed these sentiments as a child now, in the late 2010s, that the entire course of my life might have been shifted by hormonal medication and surgery. It's genuinely terrifying to me that we're allowing people who society has decided can't be trusted to make the decision to vote, to drink, to drive, hell to even get a tattoo in many cases, to decide to make utterly life-changing medical decisions based on what are very often fleeting and shallow childhood musing.

Funnily enough, I had the opposite experience. As a young tomboy, I wanted to be a boy as they seemed to have so much more freedom, whereas girls were to be protected and cosseted. As a teenager, I wanted to be a boy so I'd have access to a broader range of school subjects. I was sporty, but at the time there were no GAA or team sports available to girls in the locality, despite living in a city. Also, the boys' schools got half days on Wednesday, as.a.way to facilitate training, but the girls' schools didn't. Even today, if you gave me the choice, I'd still come back as a man.

That being said, I know I don't have gender dysphoria. I'm comfortable being a woman and have never loathed my body so much for its gender that I would want to change it surgically or otherwise. I've never felt I was born in the wrong body and wanted to kill myself for it. I can't imagine how difficult that is to live with and my heart goes out to anyone who feels that way. I imagine the vast majority of posters on here would be sympathetic too.

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Its only going to get worse, with Zappone and her new LGBTI+ rollout over the next few years they are starting the indoctrination early.

I think they may soon hit peak LGBTQ nonsense in the US in some areas as it's starting to decline and they're going back to traditional values. Such crazy ideas as males being different to females or a mother and father being a more balanced upbringing than a father and a father - and hell, yet another father with the way things have been going, are now being taken seriously again.

Ireland are in such a love affair with LGBTQ nonsense right now that unless they're among an older traditional crowd a lot of people wouldn't dare to question the dogma. The ironic thing is that the US was ahead of the curve for LGBTQ rights for a long time while Ireland and UK were far behind. Now many in Ireland think they're so ahead of the curve, almost trying to outcompete each other for who has the wildest, most extreme LGBTQ theories that we all have to follow... when actually the US is yet again ahead of Ireland about it by questioning the dogma.

Omackeral wrote: »

The T doesn't really fit in with the LGB. It's not a sexual orientation. I wonder is LGB vs T a trend? Is there a divide?

Tis Yourself? wrote: »

A doctor was fired in the UK because he wouldn't renounce his belief that gender is determined at birth. The absoultue state of the UK...

If an adult wants surgery, fine, but why should anyone else be forced to accept your delusions?

Gender is determined the second either a male or female sperm wins the race to the egg.