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A 15 paragraph tweet, posted by "Mia", is one of the most powerful takedowns I've read of the "gender affirming care" insanity underway in this country and elsewhere. Mia starts out telling about Dr Robert Smith's 1990's leg amputations of two men suffering from "apotemnophilia, a psychiatric condition involving the desire to have healthy limbs amputated." Mia describes the subsequent investigation of the cases and disgrace of Dr Smith. But then, Mia asks us to "imagine". Imagine --
A world in which a powerful apotemnophile lobby group succeeds in convincing society that apotemnophile rights is the next civil rights movement. Their message is simple: Anyone who identifies as an amputee is an amputee.
Activists insist that some people are born with innate amputee identities, and they are the most oppressed people in the world. They declare it apotemnophobic to say that humans are bipedal. Anyone who dares express such heresy deserves to have their life and career ruined.
Imagine there were a sudden 4000% increase in teens identifying as amputees, but we were all forbidden from being concerned. Instead we were supposed to celebrate it. Most of the kids were gay or lesbian, or autistic. Almost all suffered from multiple psychiatric comorbidities.
Parents of kids with supposedly innate amputee identities were expected to rejoice at the thought of their child undergoing the amputation of a healthy limb, and protesters took to the streets to demand that these children become a part of this barbaric medical experiment.
And on and on Mia goes citing kindergartners being taught about "amputee identities", "posters promoting body mutilation", restrictions on criticism of amputation practices, laws promoting amputation, laws restricting questioning amputations. Mia's description is so powerful that it is hard to resist quoting the entirety of her post. In the comments she gave permission to someone to translate and post in German, so I suspect she would not object to me posting here, but I will not as I have not obtained her consent. But you should read the whole thing.
But I will quote her conclusion --
That world is obviously mad, but our reality is worse. Because along with healthy body parts, teens today are sacrificing their fertility and sexual function on the altar of gender, before they even understand what that means, making this truly one of humanity's darkest moments.
Either evil is to entirely engulf us or there is going to be a terrible reckoning for the malign forces at work in our society.
Do you know how a hydrogen bomb works? In contrast to the original atomic bomb, where the atom is split and releases enormous energy in a nuclear fission, the hydrogen bomb uses a fission primer to put the atoms under enormous pressure (fusion). The reaction ignites a literal sun that only exists for a short period because it does not have sufficient mass and gravitational pressures to continue. But in that brief period that sun consumes and destroys massively.
Our society is being put under enormous pressure. How can it not react?
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Or how about prosecuting and jailing doctors who mutilate people? Seems straightforward.
We should also prosecute any parent who sought out such mutilation rather than seeking treatment for the obvious mental illness involved.
These are the very definitions of malpractice and abuse.
Yes, we live in wicked times.
That's always been my favorite approach.
I've frequently made the same comparison as above. If someone went to a doctor and said "I won't feel like myself unless I get my leg chopped off" we'd get that person into therapy. And if some quack actually did it, we'd use the full force of the law to punish that doctor. (I assume.)
But go to a doctor and say "I won't feel like myself unless you chop my penis off" and if you find a quack to do it, both doctor and her victim will be celebrated.
A doctor removing otherwise healthy body parts in order to "cure" someone's mental problems is a predator.
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There may be adults deluded into thinking these surgeries and drugs are beneficial but on the medical side, the motivation by many and CEOs is cash. Lots of it. You create lifelong patients who will require “treatments” and medications the rest of their lives. I seriously doubt that any of these folks believe in a Creator. It takes a special kind of secular arrogance to believe that the Creator of the universe who exists outside of space and time goofed by putting the wrong “spirit” in the wrong body. It’s the ancient Gnosticism heresy that believed the human body is dirty and foul while the interior entity is pure.
Is this another casualty of our culture’s loss of belief in our Creator? Seems to me it is.
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