Sidis Coruscatis
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What about bad faith cloaked in rhetoric that aspires to empathy?In particular, when bad faith comes cloaked in rhetoric which aspires to reason, it is the most treacherous form of sophistry.
I don't think there is any other issue that makes me more angry at ideological machinations than this today. The constant appeals to emotion and authority about something so fundamental and inherent to humanity are akin to demanding that I must become a logician before I can think. Consigning people to a lifetime of medical check-ups and medication (if they want to take their newfound identity to its ultimate conclusion, at least) because of momentary confusion is the opposite of empathy. It is not a secret anymore that transgender "medical care" is an extremely lucrative venture. The swiftness and alacrity with which institutions facilitated needless butchery is suspicious to say the least.
If grown people want to make their lives harder instead of rooting out the real cause and fixing their traumas, fine. But let's for a moment stop pretending that this is exclusive to adults, as that is no longer the case. Idiot parents are now raising "trans kids" due to minor temperamental deviations between assumed femininity and masculinity, and public schools that heavily employ progressive-minded teachers are encouraging the highly impressionable (and creative, which has much to do with it) children to embrace it. And we know that this goes beyond rhetoric and even early-stage procedures like administration of puberty blockers, as seedy places like Vanderbilt hospital have practically admitted to operating on minors despite the attempts to whitewash the fact.
Psychological research has been fairly clear for a while now that people with unresolved childhood trauma are more likely engage in body modifications like getting extensive tattoos and piercings. In my estimate, this is an attempt to escape who you are by changing your physical appearance and taking on a persona, and I went through a similar process when I was under great psychological stress without the means to resolve it in my youth. Transgender ideations sound like a radical extension of the same response. This is further strengthened by the fact that the demographic has massive rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. And no, I don't think this is due to bullying and ostracism; bullies have been around forever and such an increase in psychopathology is an oddity. As @Defective has mentioned, gender dysphoria is often accompanied by comorbidities that seem like the actual trigger rather than the result of some internal metaphysical inconsistency. The proportional rise of self-reported gender dysphoria (because this is practically the only condition where the patient decides the diagnosis and cure; thanks, "gender-affirming care" and greedy quack psychologists) with the proliferation of the concept in the mainstream is also suspicious. Not to mention that the modern concept of gender itself is a legacy of a sick degenerate and pederast, John Money.
Ian, you mentioned that this is not playing, but that's at core exactly what it is. As far as I can tell, the incidence of gender dysphoria is almost fully on the side of left-leaning demographic. We know that liberals score higher in openness to experience, which often translates to creativity, which is often the willingness to engage in fantasy play and live on the fringe of society. I remember being a zealous progressive some 13 years ago and incidentally having many of the same ideas that are the marks of young leftists today: irregular haircuts, unnaturally dyed hair, tattoos, eccentric clothing, etc. When we want to experience something that we are not and have not, we play at it. Children do this all the time, but they are conscious of it. Creative people love to imitate and bring something foreign into the mix. Openness is also inversely related to conscientiousness, which explains why highly creative people often suffer from psychological disorders: lack of discipline and principled approach to life often results in maladaptations and being poorly prepared to deal with ineluctable suffering.