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Welcome to 2016: ‘When the Insane Are Normal, the Normal Are Insane’

Posted on | October 24, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

In case you haven’t noticed, the world has gone crazy. We now live in some kind of alternative universe dreamed up by a science-fiction writer, and it’s comforting to know we’re not alone in feeling this way:

Studies have produced little evidence that “gender reassignment” surgery yields mental health benefits for those who receive it. In what other field of medicine would it be considered acceptable to perform massive, transformative surgery without any clear evidence of a therapeutic benefit? . . .
Perhaps that is the ultimate point: to eliminate the very distinction between a normal psychology and a disordered psychology, even between sanity and outright insanity. And that’s precisely where we are headed. . . .
[I]t feels like we’re being asked to participate in some kind of mass delusion where we’re all supposed to affirm that something is perfectly normal and healthy when it obviously isn’t.

Thank you, Robert Tracinski, for explaining the obvious truth. Sane people find ourselves accused of “hate” for daring to say things like that.

 

Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) is a Staff Attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT & AIDS Project. Chase’s work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States. Chase has particular expertise on the treatment of transgender and gender non-conforming people in police custody, jails, prisons and other forms of detention.

 

Oh, of course, the ACLU has staff lawyers who are trying to convince us that the categories “male” and “female” are an illusion, telling us it is “hate” to believe that these categories are real and meaningful. Only bigots believe such things, and it is only your ignorant prejudice that makes you believe chromosomes and hormones and genitalia are socially significant factors that deserve recognition in real life. How long until the phrases “real life” and “common sense” are forbidden as hate speech?

So I encountered “Chase Strangio,” the pseudo-male ACLU lawyer, playing the role of heroic martyr/victim in an emotional appeal to pity:

[W]e have spent years in dark places wrestling with our truth, feeling ashamed and plagued with self-loathing. And when we manage to come through that and survive, and thrive and even love ourselves, we are confronted with this kind of insidious insistence that we should have just not existed after all.
Too many of us die because that belief takes hold of us or of others. With attempted suicide rates in the community close to 50% and murders of transwomen and femmes of color reaching epidemic proportions, these questions truly are life or death.

Oh, cry me a river, you dishonest weirdo:

Are some people so weak that they’ll commit suicide if we don’t talk to them exactly as they want to be talked to? You want to blame other people because you’re “in dark places . . . plagued with self-loathing,” and then think you can guilt-trip the world by threatening to kill yourself if we criticize you?
One of the most toxic aspects of this Victimhood Derby competition is how some people invite the world to their pity party, and then accuse the rest of us of “hate” if we don’t accept the invitation. . . .
You’re a bully. Stop pretending to be a victim. You don’t fool me.
If you’re “plagued with self-loathing,” maybe it’s because you’re so loathsome.

You can read the whole thing at Medium.



 

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