Agree. My take on it is very similar to how I view addiction and substance abuse problems, and this is based off my past experience as an addict, researching addiction, and having been in recovery for years. To me, anyway, it's almost the exact same condition, with the person suffering very similar mental problems, and the symptom of coping with those mental issues is the only difference. In one case it's drug use as the coping mechanism, in this case it's thinking changing your gender will solve those issues. Suicide numbers tell us it won't solve anything. That said, addiction and substance abuse can be overcome, and when it is, the person comes to understand that the drug use wasn't so much their problem as it was a solution (that stopped working) to an array of other problems. After that is realized, and you understand drug use won't help you cope with your mental issues, it becomes easier to stop and stay clean. This is the same thing with gender dysphoria. In both cases, you have to recognize your mental issues, understand what's wrong, accept who you are as a person and that no substance, sex change, or any external force is what will make you better. Allowing and enabling sex change/trans, to me, is no different than enabling drug use, telling someone w/ body image issues it's ok to be bulimic, etc.
And I have no sympathy for the "well how would you feel if you didn't feel comfortable in your own body?" argument that I always get as a response when I state my belief. Like, that's literally the human condition: feeling uncomfortable, not liking things about yourself, and coming to terms with who you are, accepting the things you cannot change, and taking the initiative to change the things you can about yourself, and whatever it is you don't like. I do know what it's like to feel uncomfortable in my own body -- men go through very similar issues as women do w/ an expected body image, etc. I went to the gym to change what I could, and accepted that my dick is the size it is for the things I couldn't change lol (here comes the ball busting -- bring it! lol). My fiancee (very similar beliefs and values to me) has mentioned a few times she wants a boob job (they aren't even small!) and I always have to kind of run through this same lecture and tell her that changing that shit about yourself isn't going to make you happier, just be happy with who you are.
On a side note: I remember a couple, a female, and a trans female to male, came into the garage where I used to work, and I was under the hood with a coworker, and we were racking our brains trying to figure out (knowing that it was two biological females): "sooo.... are we dealing with lesbians? or is this a straight couple? But she's still a she," and we're just quietly going back and forth asking each other these questions trying so hard to not just bust out laughing. Good times. I really miss working in the garage for that reason, where we all had no filter, our personalities could be fully let out, etc. Breakbacking work that didn't pay great -- now I work at a college for way more pay and less work but I basically have to be an actor every day at work, kinda sucks ... ight I'm rambling now.
Everyone: trans or not: we all got problems -- identify and acknowledge them, find the right and healthy way of dealing with it, know that nothing external will solve those internal issues, change what you can, accept what you can't !
Well said. I too am a recovering addict and couldn't have said it better myself. Whether it was going fast on my street bike, sex, or drugs, I just wanted that rush to escape what I thought was a bad life. Then I had my daughter, and started bettering myself for her, not just for me. Started going to the gym, started taking her to the park and going on dinner dates with her mom, my now wife. Started teaching her about God and in turn taught myself. And I became happy with my situation. Drug use is very similar to transgenderism in how they aren't comfortable in their own life and want to change it. But that will just cause more problems eventually and is not the solution. MAGA brother, here's to my 7 years coming up in August and I wish you the best.
Awesome, congrats brother, and thanks for sharing! Recovery, and really "walking the walk," is what really cemented my conservative values. I was always more right leaning, but more in a kind of hippie libertarian way, But getting clean and being a responsible human for close to a decade, and seeing the real-world results of personal responsibility/accountability had a huge influence on my worldview and ideology
Recovering addict/alcoholic, as well. Also, I’ve come to the same conclusions as you. I’ve been researching all this transgenderism stuff the last few years.....and just, wow! Check out a guy on YouTube named Benjamin Boyce. If you haven’t seen this guy on YouTube and his research on transgenders, far left, anti racism, neo Marxism, Evergreen State, etc....I would recommend checking him out. His research on transgenders and these girls who have rapid onset gender dysphoria at a young age is incredibly enlightening. He shows how everyone is looking to be a victim in this day and age and how they cope (I’m like can’t just tail out a fat line, bang a little boy, or pop some percs like we did.....just kidding)! Anyways, Boyce has done some amazing work, especially of late diving into the far left cult and all their insane blm stuff. People really are seeking out ways to cope, and the left is indoctrinating them with radical ideas, that is helping to destroy our country! It’s fucking nuts.
Thanks, and likewise! I haven't checked out Boyce (I don't think... name does sound familiar, though) but I'll be sure to, today. I've been trying to get an online presence up and running doing similar work, but more exposing academia's role in all this (since I'm really deep inside enemy territory now), and trying to currently get thesis approval to do similar work to that of Prof. Boghossian, J. Lindsay and H. Pluckrose (they did the "grievance studies" affair), but I'm (obviously) having a very hard time finding anyone to work with and getting past the gatekeepers. I'm done with all my classes, and I've basically now been sidelined/benched because of my views and the research I'm trying to do, with them preventing me from working on my thesis. It's unreal, but I'm not stopping: they will either allow me to do my work, or I'll figure out some legal way to get all tuition, including scholarships, time wasted, etc, refunded. If all else fails, I've documented everything and I'll just write a book and have it published outside of academia, and name-drop everyone, every school, etc (which would be far more damaging than what my thesis is seeking to do, which is far more objective and won't bring any particular individual or institution into it)
Agree. My take on it is very similar to how I view addiction and substance abuse problems, and this is based off my past experience as an addict, researching addiction, and having been in recovery for years. To me, anyway, it's almost the exact same condition, with the person suffering very similar mental problems, and the symptom of coping with those mental issues is the only difference. In one case it's drug use as the coping mechanism, in this case it's thinking changing your gender will solve those issues. Suicide numbers tell us it won't solve anything. That said, addiction and substance abuse can be overcome, and when it is, the person comes to understand that the drug use wasn't so much their problem as it was a solution (that stopped working) to an array of other problems. After that is realized, and you understand drug use won't help you cope with your mental issues, it becomes easier to stop and stay clean. This is the same thing with gender dysphoria. In both cases, you have to recognize your mental issues, understand what's wrong, accept who you are as a person and that no substance, sex change, or any external force is what will make you better. Allowing and enabling sex change/trans, to me, is no different than enabling drug use, telling someone w/ body image issues it's ok to be bulimic, etc.
And I have no sympathy for the "well how would you feel if you didn't feel comfortable in your own body?" argument that I always get as a response when I state my belief. Like, that's literally the human condition: feeling uncomfortable, not liking things about yourself, and coming to terms with who you are, accepting the things you cannot change, and taking the initiative to change the things you can about yourself, and whatever it is you don't like. I do know what it's like to feel uncomfortable in my own body -- men go through very similar issues as women do w/ an expected body image, etc. I went to the gym to change what I could, and accepted that my dick is the size it is for the things I couldn't change lol (here comes the ball busting -- bring it! lol). My fiancee (very similar beliefs and values to me) has mentioned a few times she wants a boob job (they aren't even small!) and I always have to kind of run through this same lecture and tell her that changing that shit about yourself isn't going to make you happier, just be happy with who you are.
On a side note: I remember a couple, a female, and a trans female to male, came into the garage where I used to work, and I was under the hood with a coworker, and we were racking our brains trying to figure out (knowing that it was two biological females): "sooo.... are we dealing with lesbians? or is this a straight couple? But she's still a she," and we're just quietly going back and forth asking each other these questions trying so hard to not just bust out laughing. Good times. I really miss working in the garage for that reason, where we all had no filter, our personalities could be fully let out, etc. Breakbacking work that didn't pay great -- now I work at a college for way more pay and less work but I basically have to be an actor every day at work, kinda sucks ... ight I'm rambling now.
Everyone: trans or not: we all got problems -- identify and acknowledge them, find the right and healthy way of dealing with it, know that nothing external will solve those internal issues, change what you can, accept what you can't !
Well said. I too am a recovering addict and couldn't have said it better myself. Whether it was going fast on my street bike, sex, or drugs, I just wanted that rush to escape what I thought was a bad life. Then I had my daughter, and started bettering myself for her, not just for me. Started going to the gym, started taking her to the park and going on dinner dates with her mom, my now wife. Started teaching her about God and in turn taught myself. And I became happy with my situation. Drug use is very similar to transgenderism in how they aren't comfortable in their own life and want to change it. But that will just cause more problems eventually and is not the solution. MAGA brother, here's to my 7 years coming up in August and I wish you the best.
Awesome, congrats brother, and thanks for sharing! Recovery, and really "walking the walk," is what really cemented my conservative values. I was always more right leaning, but more in a kind of hippie libertarian way, But getting clean and being a responsible human for close to a decade, and seeing the real-world results of personal responsibility/accountability had a huge influence on my worldview and ideology
Recovering addict/alcoholic, as well. Also, I’ve come to the same conclusions as you. I’ve been researching all this transgenderism stuff the last few years.....and just, wow! Check out a guy on YouTube named Benjamin Boyce. If you haven’t seen this guy on YouTube and his research on transgenders, far left, anti racism, neo Marxism, Evergreen State, etc....I would recommend checking him out. His research on transgenders and these girls who have rapid onset gender dysphoria at a young age is incredibly enlightening. He shows how everyone is looking to be a victim in this day and age and how they cope (I’m like can’t just tail out a fat line, bang a little boy, or pop some percs like we did.....just kidding)! Anyways, Boyce has done some amazing work, especially of late diving into the far left cult and all their insane blm stuff. People really are seeking out ways to cope, and the left is indoctrinating them with radical ideas, that is helping to destroy our country! It’s fucking nuts.
Congrats on being clean! 👌
Thanks, and likewise! I haven't checked out Boyce (I don't think... name does sound familiar, though) but I'll be sure to, today. I've been trying to get an online presence up and running doing similar work, but more exposing academia's role in all this (since I'm really deep inside enemy territory now), and trying to currently get thesis approval to do similar work to that of Prof. Boghossian, J. Lindsay and H. Pluckrose (they did the "grievance studies" affair), but I'm (obviously) having a very hard time finding anyone to work with and getting past the gatekeepers. I'm done with all my classes, and I've basically now been sidelined/benched because of my views and the research I'm trying to do, with them preventing me from working on my thesis. It's unreal, but I'm not stopping: they will either allow me to do my work, or I'll figure out some legal way to get all tuition, including scholarships, time wasted, etc, refunded. If all else fails, I've documented everything and I'll just write a book and have it published outside of academia, and name-drop everyone, every school, etc (which would be far more damaging than what my thesis is seeking to do, which is far more objective and won't bring any particular individual or institution into it)