I was surrounded by trans coworkers at the psych hospital I worked at, and we were told that the reason the people who had transitioned were so angry and upset was only because of social stigma in society. This was the least stigmatizing and most accepting place on earth - a gender clinic in San Francisco that hired more trans people than any other organization on earth. This reason for people doing far worse after surgery and hormones didn’t ring true at all. This was the beginning of my skepticism, and feeling very alone among friends and family who weren’t forced to confront the lies we were all told all day every day. My lived experience still isn’t considered valid, though, and I’m not allowed to talk about it with anyone. So I appreciate these conversations as it makes me remember that I’m not alone.
Absolutely- the unspoken rule is that in order to be a good person you have to "think around" your first order thoughts or your gut -level reactions, and then replace them with something from the official thought orthodoxy. And people are doing it!!
That's because we are all "Labouring" under "False Consciousness", indoctrinated into the "phallocentric heteronormative hegemony". It's every body's duty to "ablate" their "assigned" programming. This "praxis" will allow "Social Justice" to make itself known.
It's a demand for power. Having taken a risky self sacrifice of their own dignity, they have risked everything, and you "MUST reassure me!" Otherwise I may be forced to question my own actions and I've staked too much on this to do that.
Az Hakeem on Stella and Sasha's podcast a few days ago (Frauds, Fetishes and Frameworks - an overvalued idea), pointed out how it's wrong to think of this as one thing. He described it as four classes of disorder (I think it's half a dozen aberrant schema) that are using the title "Trans".
The antidote to external approval addiction, is to affirm oneself, by finding true inner love, self esteem, and confidence. When this happens, external validation is great if you get it, but not necessary or required. This is healthy. External approval addiction is not healthy.
I was surrounded by trans coworkers at the psych hospital I worked at, and we were told that the reason the people who had transitioned were so angry and upset was only because of social stigma in society. This was the least stigmatizing and most accepting place on earth - a gender clinic in San Francisco that hired more trans people than any other organization on earth. This reason for people doing far worse after surgery and hormones didn’t ring true at all. This was the beginning of my skepticism, and feeling very alone among friends and family who weren’t forced to confront the lies we were all told all day every day.
My lived experience still isn’t considered valid, though, and I’m not allowed to talk about it with anyone. So I appreciate these conversations as it makes me remember that I’m not alone.
Great episode, thanks for making it.
Absolutely- the unspoken rule is that in order to be a good person you have to "think around" your first order thoughts or your gut -level reactions, and then replace them with something from the official thought orthodoxy. And people are doing it!!
That's because we are all "Labouring" under "False Consciousness", indoctrinated into the "phallocentric heteronormative hegemony". It's every body's duty to "ablate" their "assigned" programming.
This "praxis" will allow "Social Justice" to make itself known.
It's a demand for power. Having taken a risky self sacrifice of their own dignity, they have risked everything, and you "MUST reassure me!" Otherwise I may be forced to question my own actions and I've staked too much on this to do that.
Many people who do that are just THREATENING to decompensate mentally as a leverage to get their way.
Welcome to another interesting conversation, between Ms. Leslie and Dr. Andrew: Open Therapy Institute 👉 www.opentherapyinstitute.org
Az Hakeem on Stella and Sasha's podcast a few days ago (Frauds, Fetishes and Frameworks - an overvalued idea), pointed out how it's wrong to think of this as one thing.
He described it as four classes of disorder (I think it's half a dozen aberrant schema) that are using the title "Trans".
2+2=5
The antidote to external approval addiction, is to affirm oneself, by finding true inner love, self esteem, and confidence. When this happens, external validation is great if you get it, but not necessary or required. This is healthy. External approval addiction is not healthy.
How many lobotomies were performed before it became abhorrent?
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I blame it Joanne Crawford and those wire coat hangers - "Mommy dearest".
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