you don't think laws attacking either trans or other sexualities are vilification? Sermons? Pundits who say trans people should be eradicated? The "people falling over backwards" aren't the ones who are behind passing those laws.
Mental Illness isn't a single thing like chickenpox. Violent mental illness is quite rare in comparison to non…
you don't think laws attacking either trans or other sexualities are vilification? Sermons? Pundits who say trans people should be eradicated? The "people falling over backwards" aren't the ones who are behind passing those laws.
Mental Illness isn't a single thing like chickenpox. Violent mental illness is quite rare in comparison to non-violent. But non-violent makes you vulnerable. Even clinical level depression could morph into violence under the right societal factors.
I agree that few people are ACTUALLY trans. I also agree that a lot of kids nowadays, (and young adults) are "trying on" things like choice of pronoun and other forms of gender fluidity. But they are not the ones being attacked by the current spate of laws because they are not actively seeking medical treatment. Adolescence is pretty much congruent with "trying on" things the elders won't like. Can you remember the outrage about the length of the Beatles' hair? Or hippiedom in general? But as far as I can recall, no one passed laws about hair length and no one treated hippies as less than human.
And to get medical help, even without these laws, you can't just go into see an ethical doctor and say "I feel I am really male: can I have some hormones or surgery?" It's a question the doctor looks into deeply before moving forward. I suppose there are some unethical doctors, as have spurred opioid addiction. But I am not aware of any push by pharmaceutical companies to freely supply their hormone products for minor reasons as happened with opioids.
As to "sympathy". As I said in my original post, understanding WHY someone might become monstrous does not EXCUSE them when they then become so. I feel no "sympathy" for the Nashville shooter--any more that I think Son of Sam's delusion about God talking through his dog excused his actions. I just can see how if she really did feel deep gender dysphoria that that attacks on that idea could set her off. Or even if she wondered.
Of course we don't know that she DID experience such deep dysphoria. She could have had all sorts of gripes with the Christian school she had gone to. In which case, of course, all the stuff about her being "trans" is irrelevant. All my comment tried to point out is that vilification--and it is all over, you are in a bubble if you've missed it--has real world consequences on the vulnerable among use, no matter why or how they are vulnerable.
you don't think laws attacking either trans or other sexualities are vilification? Sermons? Pundits who say trans people should be eradicated? The "people falling over backwards" aren't the ones who are behind passing those laws.
Mental Illness isn't a single thing like chickenpox. Violent mental illness is quite rare in comparison to non-violent. But non-violent makes you vulnerable. Even clinical level depression could morph into violence under the right societal factors.
I agree that few people are ACTUALLY trans. I also agree that a lot of kids nowadays, (and young adults) are "trying on" things like choice of pronoun and other forms of gender fluidity. But they are not the ones being attacked by the current spate of laws because they are not actively seeking medical treatment. Adolescence is pretty much congruent with "trying on" things the elders won't like. Can you remember the outrage about the length of the Beatles' hair? Or hippiedom in general? But as far as I can recall, no one passed laws about hair length and no one treated hippies as less than human.
And to get medical help, even without these laws, you can't just go into see an ethical doctor and say "I feel I am really male: can I have some hormones or surgery?" It's a question the doctor looks into deeply before moving forward. I suppose there are some unethical doctors, as have spurred opioid addiction. But I am not aware of any push by pharmaceutical companies to freely supply their hormone products for minor reasons as happened with opioids.
As to "sympathy". As I said in my original post, understanding WHY someone might become monstrous does not EXCUSE them when they then become so. I feel no "sympathy" for the Nashville shooter--any more that I think Son of Sam's delusion about God talking through his dog excused his actions. I just can see how if she really did feel deep gender dysphoria that that attacks on that idea could set her off. Or even if she wondered.
Of course we don't know that she DID experience such deep dysphoria. She could have had all sorts of gripes with the Christian school she had gone to. In which case, of course, all the stuff about her being "trans" is irrelevant. All my comment tried to point out is that vilification--and it is all over, you are in a bubble if you've missed it--has real world consequences on the vulnerable among use, no matter why or how they are vulnerable.