The Transgender: Normalizing MENTAL ILLNESS [Effects on Boys is also discussed]

Diogenes-- · 2016-04-08T16:25:59+00:00

Trans people frequently regret their choice, have an astronomical suicide rate and are more likely to have various mental illnesses. Here's a good read: http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/19/transgender-regret-is-real-even-if-the-media-tell-you-otherwise/

I think growing up with the internet has made the younger generation much more conscious of what others think of them, and as a result extremely narcissistic. I'm asexual but I don't go around telling people this, I don't butt into random reddit threads about dating to say "OMG SHITLORD DID IT OCCUR TO YOU NOT EVERYONE'S STRAIGHT???" and don't spend hours a day in front of my mirror perfecting my look so that everyone can see my sexual orientation without me having to tell them.

It can be difficult to see narcissism as a problem since everyone has some narcissistic traits and it would be unhealthy not to. The problem is how numerous and strong these traits are. Too much of it and you get transracial peterpansexual demimooreromantic elephant-kin.

While some trans people may actually be trans, others are just narcissists looking for attention, like the entire Tumblr site. As a libertarian I don't give a shit what adults choose to do with their bodies, but when someone's going to get a surgery costing 6 digits, bill a lot of the cost to the state which I help pay via taxation, then kill themselves anyway - perhaps it would make more sense to research narcissism and nip a lot of these problems in the bud.

reddit_is_gayest · 2016-04-08T10:57:59+00:00

I honestly don't think you can say Trans is a mental illness, because it's what not normal? will you be calling homosexuality a mental illness to next, because it's unnatural? Having the viewpoint that something you don't understand and couldn't possibly understand is obviously mental illness is a little close minded. I'm assuming you are meaning mentally ill as in 'commit them to the loony bin' and not in the sense that obviously there is some mental turmoil happening within trans people? I don't think it's a mental illness in the sense of they need psychiatric treatment, but it obviously is, for the pure fact that it isn't mentally sound to hate your gender and body.

ThePigmanAgain · 2016-04-08T09:36:26+00:00

Get ready for a deluge of hatred from the resident tranny-philes. And no, Jenner is not a woman, not a woman of any kind. I could dress as a duck, it would not make me a transduck! As for the reasons why this lunacy is supported by them media, i think it is quite simple -- making people even more irrational than they already are benefits the plutocracy.

sillymod · 2016-04-08T12:26:31+00:00

This has no place on this subreddit.

rg57 · 2016-04-09T04:13:39+00:00

Didn't watch it. The video-maker isn't going to win me with "normalizing mental illness" (nor should it win any man) for two reasons:

Specifically to me, as a gay person -- gay orientation was seen as a mental illness, and now it is normalized. That's a good thing.
More generally, for all men -- masculinity and maleness are currently seen as illnesses. You really should want masculinity and maleness to be normalized again.

There is no such thing as "illness". We are all evolved as we are. There are things we'd like to change about ourselves, and the field of medicine can help with that. But that's about it. But if someone doesn't want intervention, can anyone really validly claim that person is ill, though they may have exactly the same condition as someone else? And if that person isn't ill, then how can the other be?

Title	The Transgender: Normalizing MENTAL ILLNESS [Effects on Boys is also discussed]
Author	mankindglobalmedia
Upvotes	3
Comments	10
Date	April 8, 2016 9:14 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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