Thank you for your reconciliatory reply, it's appreciated. Yes, you are correct that the issue has been weaponised. So in other words the bad guys have propagandists and agitators on both sides (as usual!). That's why we shouldn't necessarily take sides, but examine the issue itself objectively and form an opinion that way. I am aware of the purely medical facts of the trans thing, so that part is easy. Once I've got that out of the way I can clearly see all this weaponisation, and it's the innocent trans people (especially children) who get caught in the middle and suffer accordingly.
One of the telling things is that transgender stuff was never an issue up until very recently, maybe ten years or so ago. If I recall correctly this coincides with when the WHO finally got around to declassifying the trans condition from a 'psychological' condition (which it isn't), and changed the name to 'gender incongruence', thus acknowledging that it's a brain development disorder, not some psychological 'choice' that can be either made by an individual, or which can be manipulated into an individual (in the same way that 'conversion therapy' for homosexuality doesn't work). Just as you can't convince someone they're, I don't know, a different colour or something. I suppose you could use some serious systematic trauma-based mind control to do it, but the sheer effort involved in that for no ROI makes it pointless.
And yes, you're right that there is a profit-driven (pharma/medical) industry which preys on young people, but it's not the trans thing - aside from anything else it's such a rare condition that the profits simply aren't there. Puberty blockers, for example, have been around for 60 years (and used for childhood gender incongruence for 40 or so I think), and are totally off-patent (like all the other treatments for trans people). So I think that profit-motive argument is a bit of misdirection. There are better avenues of profit for these bad guys (childhood vaccine schedules spring to mind, with the subsequent chronic illnesses etc.), but certainly generalised childhood stress and thus psychological issues would also be a source of revenue.
The obvious solution to that is to make healthcare publicly owned and not-for-profit. I don't know if you are aware but in my country of origin (Britain) successive governments have been doing their damnedest to privatise the NHS. And make people sicker at the same time. Go figure.
Thank you for your reconciliatory reply, it's appreciated. Yes, you are correct that the issue has been weaponised. So in other words the bad guys have propagandists and agitators on both sides (as usual!). That's why we shouldn't necessarily take sides, but examine the issue itself objectively and form an opinion that way. I am aware of the purely medical facts of the trans thing, so that part is easy. Once I've got that out of the way I can clearly see all this weaponisation, and it's the innocent trans people (especially children) who get caught in the middle and suffer accordingly.
One of the telling things is that transgender stuff was never an issue up until very recently, maybe ten years or so ago. If I recall correctly this coincides with when the WHO finally got around to declassifying the trans condition from a 'psychological' condition (which it isn't), and changed the name to 'gender incongruence', thus acknowledging that it's a brain development disorder, not some psychological 'choice' that can be either made by an individual, or which can be manipulated into an individual (in the same way that 'conversion therapy' for homosexuality doesn't work). Just as you can't convince someone they're, I don't know, a different colour or something. I suppose you could use some serious systematic trauma-based mind control to do it, but the sheer effort involved in that for no ROI makes it pointless.
And yes, you're right that there is a profit-driven (pharma/medical) industry which preys on young people, but it's not the trans thing - aside from anything else it's such a rare condition that the profits simply aren't there. Puberty blockers, for example, have been around for 60 years (and used for childhood gender incongruence for 40 or so I think), and are totally off-patent (like all the other treatments for trans people). So I think that profit-motive argument is a bit of misdirection. There are better avenues of profit for these bad guys (childhood vaccine schedules spring to mind, with the subsequent chronic illnesses etc.), but certainly generalised childhood stress and thus psychological issues would also be a source of revenue.
The obvious solution to that is to make healthcare publicly owned and not-for-profit. I don't know if you are aware but in my country of origin (Britain) successive governments have been doing their damnedest to privatise the NHS. And make people sicker at the same time. Go figure.