On Transgenderism – One More Time

Transgenderism (Again)

I have dealt with this subject a few times in the past. The latest one was on this post here: Another Post on Transgenderism.

However, I had a thought the other day when I saw a commercial about some movie that dealt with the Transgenderism issue. Anyway, it triggered a thought and then another and I feel I can make a few more points.

First, I am NOT a parent (unless you count my fur-babies 🙂 ). So maybe I should just stay out of the debate …. but I’m not going to.

First, most parents love their children. Parents who support Transgenderism love their children. Parents who don’t support Transgenderism also love their children. No one wants their children to die over a dispute like this.

One line from the movie I mentioned above was something a psychologist said like “Would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?” Basically, it pointed out that preventing a transgender youth from transitioning may lead to that child’s suicide and death, so you’ll be better off letting the transition happen and supporting that choice. Your son will become your daughter, and she’ll live. If you try to prevent that, you may end up with a dead child.

Okay, that makes sense. Given the choice between a son who commits suicide versus a son who transitions to a daughter and lives, the latter is the better choice. Obviously. However, that second option does not come without a cost.

Yeah, I want my child to live more than anything. But, if possible, I also want my child to be able to handle reality and live in the real world.  That means that I might permit the transition as a parent, but only as a last resort. I still think transgenderism is a mental illness and the optimum solution is resolving the delusion or psychosis or what-have-you so that my child learns to accept himself/herself as he/she is, instead of running off to get irreversible medical treatments. If it’s a choice between becoming a transgender and death – yeah, let them transition. But again, the OPTIMUM solution entails resolving the psychological problem NOT catering to it.

Plus, I was a teenager once, too. I remember the pressure to fit in and that tendency to try to get some kind of …. street cred or dash of “cool” originality and individualism, that desire to wrap yourself in a cloak of mystique, drama, and significance. Here I am! I am me! I am so unique and daring, I am a member of such an elite and oppressed clique and so on, and so on.

How much of one’s transgender “issue” is really the result of teenage posturing – for lack of a better word? I’m sure not all of them are, but I kind of think a real portion is. And, again, the treatments are irreversible … they shouldn’t be undertaken lightly.

Of course, as I said above, I am not a parent. I think parents on both sides love their children. Is there some way each side can be satisfied? I don’t know.

My inclination is that it is a mental illness. But, as I’ve said elsewhere, I have no training in psychology or psychiatry.

Also, I think I’m the antichrist. So, maybe I’m a 50+ year old whose fallen victim to his own kind of posturing. I don’t know.