I Just posted this in the obscure electronic You Tubers thread, but it seems a shame to hide such such a self pitying whinge in a dark corner of the site. Fran Blanche is an electronics nerd trandad with side interests in the Apollo space program technology and re-engineering the corset to be even more fetishistic. Both very male. A couple of years ago he googled himself and number one result was "Is Fran a tranny" Here's his wery, wery, sad response.
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I love how he keeps harping on endlessly about the word "transvestite," as if a word for dressing as the opposite sex is a terrible slur, yet casually uses the word "queer," as if it was never a slur—much less an even worse slur, with more violence attached to it, than transvestite ever did.
That he uses "queer" so casually automatically outs him as trans (as if his appearance wasn't already a dead giveaway), or at least a member of the gendercult. Nobody outside the cult uses it, because they still know that it's an anti-gay slur.
Also, he never goes to the next obvious question that turns up, which would be, "Is Fran trans?" He can deny being a transvestite under the lie that he's a woman, but never addresses the obvious fact that he's not a woman in the first place. It's one of those sneaky language games that are so popular on the left.
I mostly agree, but I do think that gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder does exist.... But it is exceedingly rare. I think it's likely a subset of Body Identity Integrity disorder.
Yes, and I just posted a lengthy comment to that effect just a few days ago.
I do believe that so called "real trans" people—not AGPs—suffer from BIID, and that there is no logical reason why they should be separated out into a category of their own, where the "treatment" involves surgery and hormones to bring them closer to the mismatched image of themselves in their heads.
BIID sufferers are offered intensive therapy, anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics to help them deal with the distress their delusions about their bodies cause them. These are people who resort to grievous self-injury in order to get the surgeries they insist they need, because very few physicians are willing to amputate healthy limbs or destroy a patient's vision or hearing—they know that the desire for it is delusional.
But trans people? Oh, yeah, sure, totally valid, based entirely on the patient's say-so, even if they're children, even if they're autistic or mentally ill or cognitively disabled or survivors of sexual abuse/assault. No problem! Let's get them on drugs, and get them in the pipeline for surgery, so they can be who they were meant to be—fixing God's mistakes.
But a guy who knows he's supposed to be a double amputee, or a woman who knows she's supposed to be blind? They're crazy, and need psychiatric help, and giving them the surgeries they want is unethical.
Make it make sense—oh, no wait, you can't, because it makes no sense at all.
