Surging numbers
Oooh a surge in young pipple idennifying as nonbinaree. But which kind of nonbinaree??
Staff at Scotland’s youth gender clinic say they are struggling to deal with surging numbers of children who identify as neither male nor female.
What mean “deal with”? How do you deal with children who idennify as tigers or cars or archaeologists? What kind of dealing is there?
A warning about the rise in “non-binary” patients was raised as part of a review into the impact of government spending on trans healthcare. However, workers at the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow highlighted a lack of guidance on how they should be looked after.
One health professional revealed that some young “non-binary” patients who say they do not belong to either gender still request sex hormones that would either feminise or masculinise them.
Oh don’t worry about that. Just give them both.
“Over the last ten years, obviously there’s been a big increase in the number of people presenting [with] gender non-conforming identities … we’ve really struggled to think about how we deal with that in a fair way,” the staff member said.
Why yes. Thank you for noticing. Big increase, and struggled to think. Yes, there’s been a big increase, because it’s a fad, and lots and lots of people have enthusiastically embraced the fad. Yes, it’s a puzzler how to deal with that, because it’s wrong and bad and harmful.
One consultant who has worked in gender healthcare told The Times they had encountered patients who shifted genders depending on how they felt on different days. “We have got into a position where we are enabling people to deny reality and we have reinforced delusional behaviours,” the consultant said.
Yes. As we have been pointing out for way too many years now.
My highly unethical idea is that you tell the nonbinary youth that they’re being given the opportunity to be part of a hormone therapy RCT where they’ll either be assigned to the hormone arm or the placebo arm. (Spoiler alert: it’s ALL placebo, but it doesn’t matter because what they really want is the attention, and Being Part Of A Study is that.)
Yes like I shift between being wealthy and poor, or attractive and hideous, or Greek and Roman, or Martian and Venusian, or or…
The main thing is you have to agree with and validate me, because it’s me. You all know where exactly the world revolves.
So much for the wisdom of youth.
Strikes me that this is, or at any rate has the potential to be, very controlling behaviour: today you must read my signals and identify my gender — no no, you are misgendering me. That was yesterday, etc.
How many of these people are seeking a sense of power that is otherwise missing in their lives?
The phrase “identify as” identifies as meaningful, but it isn’t, really. “I wish I were” would be more accurate. When you put it that way, the voluntariness, and the untruth, are revealed.
It’s interesting that so many kids change what they “identify as,” at the drop of a hat. So much for innate and unchangeable “gender identity,” or being “trapped in the wrong body.” A little mental effort and concentration, and presto! You’re in the right body again. People can wish for things all the time. Doesn’t magically become true.
YA THINK
@maddog
I think it is slightly different: These young people have embraced gender ideology and thus sex stereotypes so strongly that all traits of their personality have to be classified as gendered.
So when you feel good hugging a puppy or when you make a tea for a friend you are female; when you feel assertive or powerful or play football you are male.
I tend to dislike nostalgia, but I long for the days of hula hoops, yo-yos, coonskin caps, tamagochi…
I have looked up the listings of the 72 genders, and 95% of them are very slight variations on non-binary descriptions of not liking the male-female gender structure. We are all non-binary in that nobody matches up to the platonic ideals of either femininity or masculinity. I challenge any clinician to explain the science behind any of them. They read like the descriptions that kids who were trying to out-do each other on Tumblr.
The fad this time is being aided and abetted by parents who follow the “Believe the kids, they know who they are” directive. Abd it sounds suspiciously like the directive during the Satanic Panic. Fads really shouldn’t involve lifelong medical damage that could be prevented by waiting out until puberty is over.
Spot on. It’s reversion to traditional gender structure despite the best efforts of the “Free to be, you and me” movement. Masculinity is clawing back, and found a new fingerhold to segment gender roles. If one feels feminine, it must be tied to biology, right? Funny that conservative Christians, as well as Muslims (I mean other than Iran) don’t embrace it as confirmation of their claim that God created women one for a subservient set of roles around reproduction and nesting, and men to be another way but in command. The Head of the Household. This makes it all the more frustrating that humanists and atheists accept that we have innate gender identities that can affirm or contradict our sex. Just don’t call it a “soul” because that would be religious.