Thread by @Theo_TJ_Jordan

There truly are so many parallels between anorexia and gender dysphoria; especially re underlying causes. Yet consider the difference in clinical response to...

"I'm unhappy with my body b/c I'm fat (when I'm skinny)"

"I'm unhappy with my body b/c I'm a male (when I'm female)"

https://twitter.com/inquirous/status/1402410669840994309

Imagine if the path of treatment for anorexia was to embrace it and alter the individual's world so they live as an obese person. That immediately strays into the realm of the bizarre, right?

Then it should give you great pause to push children down a path towards transition.

Now, obviously, my thoughts here rest on two critical pillars...

1) I do not subscribe to gender theory. I believe all forms of gender dysphoria are a mental health condition

2) I believe there is widespread social contagion

Neither position is at all unreasonable.

If you disagree with either of the above, you might as well close this thread. I'm not saying I'm "right" and you're "wrong", just that we'll never understand each other here because we sit at such different places.

And this lands us exactly on why it's such sensational nonsense that transactivists package every position that doesn't fully embrace gender theory as "they don't want us to exist!". Absolute nonsense. A distracting clown show; nothing more.

That gender theorists have published a bunch to build foundation for other gender theorists does not make it "science". It remains nothing but fortified dogma.

What's the cleanest proof that gender theory is academic witchcraft? This...

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https://twitter.com/PhilosophicalG9/status/1402408445874212865?s=20

There is no rational argument against that tweet above. It's concrete. That's because the selection of male/female was finalized before that human ever filled its lungs with oxygen. From there, it's all in the mind. Literally.

I am all for peoples "right to exist" and right to live life however they want. In fact, thats what I'm all about. And that's not where my angst on the gender front comes from.

That source is the demand of transactivists, now being codified as high up as the federal gov that...

that we all accept gender theory, and allow selective gender to supercede biological reality for the purpose of human classification. No, I reject that today and I always will. But I support a transperson's right to live that way. And I encourage respect of transgender people.

That's prong #1 above. Now let's circle back to my OP here and discuss prong #2...

My main concern is social contagion. Meaning, children who are NOT dysphoric being encouraged down these same channels.

To be frank...

if you're dismissive of social contagion at this point, you are simply electing to live with your head buried in the sand on this issue and, honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself...

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https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1402275108102848512?s=20a

If you accept there is a level of social contagion going on, then my OP here (and Zoe's thread I QTd above) should really trouble you.

Now, cast that out to thousands and thousands of children nationwide and we land at the below.

This is a true crisis.

https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1402392315000496132?s=20