A Twitter thread with much wisdom.

https://twitter.com/dontkillfrogs/status/1124573634905890816

There’s a thread reader but I’m just going to knit it all together for ease of reading, because I think it’s that useful.

The mad thing is, every feeling or lived experience in “gender dysphoria” can far more readily be explained by the clinical characteristics & traits of many other psych conditions. It’s forbidden to speak of this.

Through our dysregulated emotions & incessant rumination, we become susceptible to the full range of GD/GID symptoms, which we’re told are unique & special. It’s not unique at all. It’s garden variety identity disturbance & diffusion. The only thing somewhat different is the emphasis on wanting to be the opposite sex. This is a combo of cognitive bias and gaslighting by the trans industry.

Men & women develop GD/GID for completely different reasons, and while many are uncomfortable with their bodies, sex roles etc. they can usually manage all right & even work through their discomfort. It’s not a crisis of “identity” for them, there isn’t a relentless unstoppable drive to “transition.” Until: They learn about transgenderism, see a film, read a magazine article, etc. Suddenly there begins the whole pathological process of rumination, disavowal, idealization and “splitting.” This almost always happens during a time of high stress. It becomes a crisis.

The experience has very close parallels with the emergence of borderline personality disorder, with the difference being that the trans industry harnesses the energy of your disturbed identity to sell us a costume and tell us we’re a real girl/boy now. That’s the gaslighting. Had we seen a film, read a book, however we learned about it, without the accompanying lie that our secret wish will now come true, we would not have taken the bait.

Young or old, if we bite the hook, the clinical progression is similar. It’s just our minds under pressure, and when an impossibility is presented as an option, the tension becomes extreme. It’s iatrogenic (caused by medical industry) & also mediagenic. Meanwhile, all the same processes have been studied intensely for decades, with explicit exception of GD/GID.

Further reading in the final tweet:

https://twitter.com/dontkillfrogs/status/1124585311189626880

In short, what we have here is a manufactured “condition” or “identity” or whatever you want to call it. Being trans isn’t a thing, it’s an idea, a thought process, a fantasy, a contagion, a product of incessant rumination. It’s an invention, and not one of the better ones. It’s an idée fixe, and those are usually considered more a hindrance than a help.

It’s not that I think fantasy is always a bad thing. I think it can be quite helpful, as long as it continues to be recognized as fantasy. But not all fantasies are helpful, and the one about being the opposite sex has jumped the tracks into a nightmare. Combine personality disorder with rumination with narcissism with the internet, and what would you expect to come up with?