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Robyn S's avatar

Wanting to chop bits of your body off because you think it isn't 'you' is called body dysmorphic disorder, and it's a serious mental health problem. Like anorexia nervosa. Mental health issues associated with serious physical problems - that can kill you.

And no, a kid is NOT an adult and shouldn't be having the final say in their health decisions. When they hit 16-ish, OK, that's getting into a grey area, and when they're 18, fine, they can make their own calls - right or wrong.

But you know you're not in the land of the living when governments and health professionals say "It's OK, you really want to be a boy/girl/it, don't you (because we've been brandishing weird sexual stuff at you since you could crawl), so here's what we're going to do. We'll chop off all that strange sexual stuff you were born with, create synthetic boy/girl/it sexual stuff, and sure, you'll never be able to breed, and you'll have to take hormones for life, and lots of people will think you're weird, and you'll lose friends, family, you name it, but hey, that's OK. Because this is YOU, isn't it? And seriously, don't worry about people telling you it's all in your head. We believe you. Trust us. We're doctors!"

This whole concept of 'gender' is NUTS. You're born BOY or GIRL and your genetics show that. OK, some weird souls out there get XXY or something, but they are SO rare. But thinking you're born into the wrong body is NUTS. It's not normal, and people shouldn't be encouraging this talk. I'm quite sure there genuinely ARE people out there who have felt this their whole lives, and I truly feel sorry for them. But the great majority these days going in for the new 'fashion' of transgender surgery are just wannabes. Left alone, with no children's drag queen shows, or 'gender' talk, they'd probably just turn out straight, or gay, which was already pre-determined in their DNA anyway.

When I was a teenager, I remember the MSM thought it was horrific that all these Somali girls were being forcibly circumcised with a sharp rock in cold water and then the whole vulva was sewn up, which caused them immense physical pain every time they peed or had their period. Then when they were married off, their husband had to literally cut them open on their wedding night. What a horror show. And now, what, because a 'doctor' is chopping things up down there, it's somehow OK?!?!

The world is CRAZY and anyone who wants this gender surgery done to them is also CRAZY. And they should be getting mental health help, not having their twisted fantasies brought to life! In most cases, though, it's the doctor's and government's twisted fantasies, and the youth of today are the victims.

People make me sick, they really do.

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I’ve thought for awhile that it’s a cultural problem we are facing. It’s the product of diminishing motherhood. Women are told they can have it all. We are raised being asked what we want to be in the corporate world. We are expected to go to college and find our dream job. Break glass ceilings. So we go to college, get the job, and then realize that at some point the job interferes with having a family. But, now we are told that we can have it all! So we have children and most women go through a lot of anguish going back to work after the allotted maternity leave is over. It isn’t natural for us to leave our kids in a daycare all day long and see them only for a short time in the evening. This is the beginning of handing your kids over to authority. You are too tired to make decisions and trust the experts to make decisions for your kids. It’s a slow fade. But this is having it all. What a lie. And then we are faced with not only financial decisions, but huge life decisions to fix all those years of lies. Our culture must change. Liberal women who don’t have kids cannot understand or relate to any of it. I know this is an unpopular statement, but unless you have experienced motherhood you simply cannot understand the relationship between a mother and child. My pre-motherhood self would have completely disagreed with all of the above. Motherhood changes a person in ways they cannot understand until they experience it.

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