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This Is How to Do “Trans”
Mrs Rodin and I recently watched an interview with Blaire White conducted by Viva Frei (available on YouTube, Rumble, and VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com). The YouTube version is truncated and the Rumble and Locals versions are behind a paywall, so I will try and highlight the interview for you if you don’t have access to the whole thing.
Let me set the stage by quoting just one Tweet from Blaire White:
LGBT activists won full legal equality, and the only thing left to do was leave kids alone.
Just don’t [redacted] with the kids.
That’s it. The bar was THAT low and they couldn’t meet it.
Blaire White is a biological male who suffers from gender dysmorphia. She is quite clear that she has had and continues to have that medical condition. She does not claim to be normal and does not expect anyone to use her preferred pronouns — she has no “preferred” pronouns. She also prefers to be known as “transsexual” and not “transgender”.
In the interview she outlined her history: Growing up in northern California she always felt that she was a girl in a boy’s body. She knew that feeling was not normal. She lived in a nuclear family with two brothers. Although the household had far too much drama, she does not throw her family under the bus. She simply feels that she is what she is and has what she has (gender dysmorphia). It was even more pronounced when she hit puberty. Although labeled a “fag” by some schoolmates she never was sexually attracted to gay boys/men (or women). She did not adopt girls clothing, but did adopt a “punk/goth” look that was more sexually amorphous as a teenager. Only when she went to college did she present as a woman and begin taking hormone treatments.
When she started taking hormone treatments she became very aware of the biological differences between men and women. She could feel herself changing physically and emotionally. And it put her at odds with campus feminist doctrine that gender was simply a social construct. She knew differently. (As we watched the interview, Mrs Rodin remarked: “That person has a woman’s brain!”)
She started a YouTube channel while in college and the interview included a clip from an early video. Although early in her transitioning process, she was clearly feminine. Since then she has had cosmetic work to enlarge the breasts and some facial work to sculpt her looks in the manner that many actresses do, but her foundation was slight and feminine to begin with.
Ms White has not had sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) and does not believe SRS to be a good idea. She is chemically castrated from the hormone treatments and has substantial loss of sexual urges. Her relationships tend to be more emotional than physical (and the interview did not go into any details) and she is not a part of the “hookup” scene.
For her, transitioning was the best way to cope with her gender dysmorphia. And by not getting SRS she has avoided the potential health problems and sexual challenges of men who have done so and are trying to establish a heterosexual analog. She is who she is, her body is what it is, and relationships will occur or not occur within that reality.
Ms White does not believe biological men should be in women’s locker rooms or competing in women’s events. She does not think men can simply put on women’s clothing and make up and demand to be treated as a woman. If they are not diagnosed with and accept that they are gender dysmorphic, then they are fetishists and have no place in women’s spaces. Men going to women’s prisons is beyond insane to her.
Use of women’s bathrooms are different from locker rooms because genitalia is not exposed. The basic rule for Ms White is that if your presentation and behavior does not alarm other occupants of the bathroom then there is no problem. If it does, then courtesy requires that you find somewhere else to do your business and/or find a way to modify your presentation and behavior so that it does not alarm women in their restroom. If you cannot, well…
Ms White’s outlook on pronouns is similar. Pronouns are functional in conversation. When she meets someone in person they don’t struggle with calling her “her” or “she”. Usually it is people online who want to call her “he” or “him” — to make a point. Which way you choose to go is a matter of indifference to her.
Ms White knows she is mentally ill, but is not crazy. Her treatment, beginning as an adult, was to bring her body more in line with her mind. She accepts the consequences of her illness and the tradeoffs involved in choices she made to make herself feel better and to operate within society in a more normal fashion.
She does not believe that children can make this choice. She believes that people who think they can — who are providing or encouraging “gender affirming care” –are doing great harm to these children. Ms White thinks that if the medical community were required to treat this as a mental illness, it would lose its cachet as a lifestyle choice and be less prone to adoption by disaffected youths (or their mothers) as a means gaining social status.
I enjoyed “meeting” Blaire White through this interview. I respect how she is living her life –the insight she has gained into her condition, her acceptance of it as a mental illness, the decisions she has made to make herself feel better while avoiding serious health issues, and the honesty with which she presents herself to the world. There may be some who feel that she is doing wrong in adopting women’s clothing and manner. Some may see this as a form of immorality, a violation of Biblical injunctions, and should not be an accepted treatment for gender dysmorphia. If so, I think that is regrettable, but I will not debate your faith. I can only say that if Ms White’s approach were adopted routinely we would not be suffering with Drag Shows for children, “gender is just a social construct”, and other progressive perversions.
In a war for a better, more sane, society I accept allies who may be mentally ill, but not crazy.
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No it is not self-evident. If I marry a Mormon girl who can’t have kids and we still engage in marital sex. Is that evil?
By nature I should leave her and breed with another woman?
The reason the Mormon girl can’t have kids is not because she’s actually another man.
Well what if that Mormon girl actually had an XX kinda of human. Which I mean woman.
Is engaging with loving sex with her wrong? Even if she is totally boring and doesn’t love sodomy?
Your argument is sophomoric. No one here has suggested that procreation is the only goal of sex. Attraction to the opposite sex is a mammalian feature. Attraction to the same sex is not. The ability to conceive is not required for a healthy attraction.
What does “Mormon” have to do with anything? I suspect your iPhone inserted that word on its own.
You guys may need to take this outside.
Why?
I would challenge Skyler to a drinking contest.
Homosexuality has been observed in insects and mammals quite alot. Some biologists think that it emerges from an inability to recognize a female. Male Beetles in Australia like mating with a golden can for example. That is because some female beetles have a gold stop on them.
I hate the naturalist fallacy. Rape as observed in both insects and mammals is very common. Slavery is normal for human beings. Both are wrong. We should all reject nature and be good to each other.
I think we disagree on what being good to each other looks like.
Obviously.
Where is the line you draw in caring for someone with self-destructive or other-exploitative behaviors? Have you loved someone while withholding support for their disordered desires?
To rephrase, are you a parent? Not that it’s any of my business. . . But, I think it’s possibly an instructive distinction.
Wrenched my back last week and as painful as it is, I welcome as much alcohol as I can take. I don’t care what anyone says, it works wonders for pain. :)
But I’m a light weight when it comes to alcohol.
Tuberculosis is natural too. Doesn’t make it right.
No. My DNA isn’t good enough to use for breeding.
You dodged the point, though, didn’t you. You and I see things differently with regard to homosexual sex, in part, because you’re unaccustomed to saying “no” to someone you love for their own good.
Being good to others isn’t always supporting them in whatever they want. It often entails wanting more and better for them than they want for themselves.