I believe the Economist is using the wrong term here, right? "Trans X" means "Was assigned another sex at birth, but feels like an X and wants to be called an X" I think, at least.
Yes -- that made the article instantly unbelievable. The person in the first paragraph is a boy, not a girl.
The entire premise seems rather shaky. The benefit to trans surgery is that a person can live their life; the downside is that sometimes the diagnosis will be wrong. But we can apply the exact same argument to every single big choice in this world.
Once again, an immoral and irrational movement promoting perversion is permitted by society to wield a heavy hammer.
Muslims in the West are constantly told that they need to publicly repudiate terrorism. (Good idea -- though they pretty much do that anyway.) People on the left need to stand up to the bullying of the trans movement. No one will listen to conservatives.
And please don't flag this article or my post -- that is part of the whole divisiveness problem in the West.
Yes, I suppose it is. I think it would also be divisive to say that trans surgery for a 12-year-old girl is perfectly natural -- and I would disagree with it. But what is most offensive to me is the notion that one subset of society -- and a pretty small one at that -- has the right to dictate how all the rest of us are to think about an issue.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadThe entire premise seems rather shaky. The benefit to trans surgery is that a person can live their life; the downside is that sometimes the diagnosis will be wrong. But we can apply the exact same argument to every single big choice in this world.
Once again, an immoral and irrational movement promoting perversion is permitted by society to wield a heavy hammer.
Muslims in the West are constantly told that they need to publicly repudiate terrorism. (Good idea -- though they pretty much do that anyway.) People on the left need to stand up to the bullying of the trans movement. No one will listen to conservatives.
And please don't flag this article or my post -- that is part of the whole divisiveness problem in the West.