A slide from a talk at a recent European Professional Association for Transgender Health conference in Rome:
Notice anything?
It’s…everything. It’s a long list of feelings and behaviors that most people experience or perform at least occasionally (diagnosed conditions apart). Feeling lonely, feeling guilty, feeling of not fitting in – all could be gender dysphoria! Or, could be normal ups and downs of life. It’s like saying having two feet could be a sign of gender dysphoria.
This is not about helping people who feel acute discomfort with their gender or their sex, it’s about recruiting more people into a Movement. It’s about promoting and encouraging and bigging up a fashion. It’s a branch of advertising – got bad breath? Try our new Breffoclean. Got bad moods? Try our new GenderDysphoriaParty.
Note in particular the last item. Gender dysphoria may present as feelings of uncertainty/decreased gender dysphoria. Decreased gender dysphoria.
Whatever; get in there with the hormones, the sooner the better.
H/t Lady Mondegreen
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23 responses to “List of symptoms”
Wow. This reminds me of a pamphlet that we rescue workers used to get at “debriefings” warning of “symptoms of PTSD” after critical incidents. The list included EVERYTHING. They really wanted people to go into therapy, bad.
It’s also similar to the symptoms of Post-Abortion syndrome.
Now I’ll have to look that up…
Life Site News (of course!) obliges with some helpfully broad and universal symptoms:
There you go, excluding the Pirate Identifying Community, as well as those Assigned Two Feet at Birth.
I was once in the company of some New-Agey types (“oh, I’m psychic, you know…”) and they asked me if I thought I was a “spiritual person”. I said that I didn’t really know what that meant, but that I doubted it. One of them then promised to convince me that I was, indeed, “spiritual”. He did this by basically defining “spiritual” so broadly and so fuzzily that the word eventually came to mean everything (and thus, of course, it meant nothing).
This dilution of a word to the point of uselessness (the homeopathic fallacy, perhaps?) seems to be becoming much more common as a technique these days. We already have “man” and “woman” (the latter, especially) stretched to breaking point, and now we have “gender dysphoria” (something I am prepared to accept is a real condition in a few cases) being rolled out filo-pastry thin over a plethora of normal reactions of normal people to the normal visissitudes of normal living.
In the future, every entry in the dictionary will just say “see: Humpty-Dumpty”.
If everyone is trans, then no one is trans. This nonsense makes less sense every day.
Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. (time elapses) Check. I guess I must be…a lady.
I’m trying to decide if this is a recipe for spanakopita or baklava. The former is cheesy, the latter is sprinkled with nuts…
Could be either really, though the versions offered in this presentation are decidedly half-baked.
That left-hand column pretty much spells out the average teenager, with the possible exceptions of poor academic performance and family relationships.
Sounds like it is a hybrid. Spanakoklava.
At the risk of ignoring Egon Spengler’s warning against “crossing the streams”…
Spanocovfefe?
The implication, of course, is that transitioning will fix all these issues (imagine a desperate parent rationalizing that if their child transitions to the opposite sex, then their autism will go away). Very inaccurate and dangerous.
YNNB #9, probably the funniest thing I’ll read today. Kudos.
Grief. So when my great grandfather died, was I temporarily trans? And is there a even single person on this planet that can honestly say they have never experienced “frustration or anger”? Jesus christ, to think there are otherwise rational people that believe this tripe. I genuinely wonder how many people look at that and believe it wholeheartedly, and how many are confused by it but don’t voice their concerns because they don’t want to be labeled a bigot.
#6 Graham Douglas
I noticed similar, with various phrases becoming increasingly vacuous and applied overbroadly:
Gaslighting used to mean a form of manipulation to cause someone to doubt their own faculties, now it means ‘you disagreed with me about something that happened in the past.’
“Intent is not magic” used to be a shorthand way of stating that not wanting to cause offense or harm does not prevent offense or harm, now it is a rhetorical weapon that is deployed any time someone else expresses what their intent was, or that they were misunderstood.
Mansplaining used to mean the habit men in general have of giving patronising explanations to women, especially of things the woman knows better than the man, now it refers to any man that disagrees with Giliell on anything, especially if she is wrong.
#11
Introducing my new experimental rock band, Spanner Cock Lava.
Lol at the mansplaining one.
I think Screechy nailed it.
#9 YNNB: When I were a lad, we had a neighbour who would respond to the question “what’s for dinner?” with “air pie and a walk around”. Air pie with a filo pastry crust would have more substance that most of these arguments.
#15 Holms:
I am so glad I stopped bothering with FtB and all the super-woke circle jerking going on over there.
Holms #15: I actually saw, not too long ago, a man repeatedly claim he was being ‘mansplained’ to whenever another man disagreed with him. No women involved at all, just two men arguing.
Still says it all, IMO:
“Some have held that it would be preferable to modify society’s sex role expectations of men and women than to modify either the body or the mind of individuals to fit these expectations (Raymond 1980).”
J. A. , the TRAs have a word for people who say that – TERFs. So, guess we’re all TERFs here.
iknklast, no we’re not really TERFs. TERF is a deliberate insult, a lying caricature of what feminists who have objected to those claiming to be women on the basis of gender are actually saying, which is that women have long-standing and profound objections to how women, as material beings with physical bodies, have been treated as inferiors to men. Feminism is about changing that power relationship for the benefit of all women, everywhere. It’s not about agreeing that men who self-identify as women should be able to do so regardless of how detrimental it may be to women overall. For instance, drag queens are not women, and while many drag queens are aware of how sexism hurts women and are considerate of women’s feelings, it’s not hard to see what can happen if men with girly penises are considered to be the same as women without them. They’re not. It really is better to look at the sex roles we’ve been trained and expected to play and consider changing them for everyone’s benefit.
J. A. maybe I should have included a sarcasm tag? Most of the people here know my sarcastic nature, and sometimes I forget.