Transgenderism is a psychiatric disorder: its sufferers need therapy, not surgery

http://yiannopoulos.net/2014/08/15/transgenderism-is-a-psychiatric-disorder-its-sufferers-need-therapy-not-surgery/

Interesting opinion piece about the next social cause now that they are almost done with shoving LBG down our throats.

Some excerpts. It is worth reading all of it though.

There are people who believe their own limbs don’t belong to them. They suffer from something called body integrity identity disorder, which is rare, and generally affects white middle-aged men. (No one knows why.) Doctors, understandably, tend not to hack off the offending limbs to make reality concord with fantasy.

There are also people who believe that they are dead. This belief is known as the Cotard delusion. Medical professionals do not kill patients suffering from this condition: instead, pharmacological treatments are administered, which can be very effective. Patients who do not respond to the cocktail of prescribed antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs are, similarly, not bumped off.

So why, in the case of another, related and very high-profile disease, suffers of which believe they were born with the wrong sex organs, do we, rather than treating the disorder with medication and therapy, instead go about warping reality to conform to delusion?

It’s almost too obvious a point to make, but so-called “male-to-female” patients do not, of course, become female, emotionally, anatomically or hormonally. They do not menstruate. They cannot reproduce. We permit these people the pronoun “she,” if they express a preference for it, as a polite courtesy. But they are not women. They are men masquerading as women; castrated boys in frocks and wigs, redolent of the bizarre excesses of a depraved Roman Emperor’s court.

“The next civil rights frontier,” proclaimed TIME magazine when it put transgender actress Laverne Cox on its cover in May. The ideological aim of this cover, and much well-meaning reporting of it, was to fan the flames of an inchoate movement to legitimise transgenderism in popular opinion. (And, of course, to single out those who dissent from the party line.) This is self-defeating activist journalism of the worst kind.

We don’t listen when sufferers of other kinds of psychiatric disorder make fantastical demands. Imagine if we did. We should not be so quick to obey the victims of this one. We should resist calls to normalise what every major medical association still classifies as a disorder. We should withdraw public funding for sex reassignment surgery.