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Meg Torrie's avatar

This is so true!

I have lived the last 20 years of my life - unable to enjoy darn near ANYTHING without suffering from strange and uncomfortable palpitations...

For decades, it was dismissed as an aversion or sensitivity to foods, medication, and alcohol.

It dismissed as anxiety!

And it wasn't until very recently I was FINALLY diagnosed with a minor (fixable) genetic heart condition!

Now, when I go to any hospital with palpitations and I mention my condition, the course of treatment is like night and day!

I just cannot fathom ANYONE in need of medical intervention failing to state the obvious!

Doing so could save your life!

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Marjorie's avatar

Buck I love you and your honesty so much. When my daughter (12) told me she "is a boy" one of the first things I told her is that no matter what she wears, what her pronouns are, or what she might change her public records to say, her body will ALWAYS be female and there are very critical health and wellness reasons why she needs to be honest with herself and others about that. To this day she refuses to wear anything from the women's department (even black crew neck t shirts) but she takes a women's one-a-day vitamin every day without argument.

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Teed Rockwell's avatar

This gynecologist is not lying. She just has a different definition of the word "woman". For reasons you described in your article, among others, there are a lot of problems with her definition. But you can't settle differences in definition by claiming they are matters of fact. It just confuses the argument if you try. Even difference in belief about matters of fact are not lies. A person has to know that what they are saying is false before they can be lying.

Most of the rest of your article is basically trying to show why this definition is bad and dangerous, which is the right approach. Your experience and thoughtfulness is a vital part of this debate.

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Samhain's avatar

No, the gyno is lying, both about Mulvaney being female and about the actual, correct doctor being a bigot. Fuck her.

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Gerda Ho's avatar

Born a male, you are a man..calling you a woman is barefaced lying, and everybody knows it!

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Teed Rockwell's avatar

there are in fact, several different definitions for dog and cat. A lion is a cat by one definition, but if someone asked for a cat for Christmas, and you give them a lion, you will have misunderstood them. By some definitions, a marsupial dog is a dog. By other definitions it isn’t.

and even if there is only one definition, A person who mistakenly believes some other definition will not be lying. They will be mistaken.

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Scherer's avatar

You are conflating terms here. A woman is an adult human being. There is no third sex in the human species. A man cannot be a woman or a girl. He might dress like a girl, he might think he's behaving like a girl but he is only performing an act . When it comes to going to a doctor for an internal exam .... that's when the performance is definitely over. Even after a vaginoplasty

Your cat and dog argument is wilfully obtuse A lion is a member of the cat family - when using the vernacular " cat" we all know that the feline we are talking about is a domestic cat. When we talk about lions we don't talk about cats, we say lion.

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Renegade Transsexual's avatar

In mainstream science. One's sexual orientation can change one's perception of where one fits in a two sex world. That has nothing to do with trans Ideology. Biological gametes exist for procreation. If one doesn't than one is classed as a deviant ( Blanchard ).

Biology means Biological processes of life. As simple as that.

Some people don't fit in their sex. That's Biological in origin as well.

Your sex class is a pure creation of maoism.

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Scherer's avatar

You conflate biological sex with sexual orientation. This whole gender construct is a creation of post- modernist deconstructivism which fall neatly under the Marxist umbrella. The rationale of Marxism is to undermine society and it's institutions.

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Renegade Transsexual's avatar

What some of my brothers on the right fail to grasp is. Transsexuals especialy homosexual transsexuals and some intersex are about is. Not about deconstructing society, but fitting in with how they were made. Some could say the gay identity is about subversion. I don't believe that myself, but some of the ideologues, yes it is and not indivduals. The reality is! A few males are more like females, and an even fewer amount of females are more like males.

Even their bodies. An aspect that definately needs more research. If you take myself as typical. A gay relationship ship would never of worked on both sides. The pre natal T effect and its more extreme expression.

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Renegade Transsexual's avatar

Whether you like it or not!. Im Nether woke or a leftist sex ideologue. Mainstream science is what it is. You obviously know nothing of Blanchard, Bailey, Cantor or Soh. You know or prefer to Bury you head in the sand regarding the effects of pre natal testoserone in males and females. Like most progressives you conflate facts. I merely stated that sexual orientation can effect one's perception, but why? The answer is simple!

A gay brain is pushed slightly on the opposite direction. Some more than others.

This can have an effect of biologicaly induced dysphoria. Remember that who your attracted to within the homosexual scale of presentation. Their are other psychological factors produced. Which in some are more like the opposite.

Birds of a feather flock together. That is homosexual gender dysphoria. Not the autohet condition of born in the wrong body narative.

Gametes sex is one thing and is still immutable, but sense of sex is something else.

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Scherer's avatar

No one is debating whether gay men and lesbian women exist. There's no debate about that. The biology of homosexuality is still to be discovered. I don't have an issue with that..

The rest is all semantics I am familiar with the work of . Blanchard et al. A man who is AGP is not a woman. He is erotically excited by the idea of himself as a woman . This sense of sex which you talk about is about stereotypes about men & women. What society finds acceptable in men or women. One " feels feminine" but no man has any clue what it is to BE a woman, just as no woman has any idea what it is to be a man. Feeling feminine is not being a woman You sense of sex is an exercise of the imagination and fantasy . Sure, knock your self out but stop expecting others to buy into your fantasy. You have the right to express yourself and the right to not be beaten up for your self-expression but the rest of us have the inalienable right to disagree with you

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Gerda Ho's avatar

Wait…” a different definition of the word “ woman”? There is only one definition! Just like there is only one definition of the word “ cat”! Or “ dog”:. How can anyone be so dense? If I say up is down or war is peace , is that just a matter of definition and words have no meaning?

This is the problem with the trans cult…they define words according to what they want them to mean, which is simply an excuse for lying!

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Teed Rockwell's avatar

what you were doing is not arguing, it is table pounding. The theory is that if you say something often enough and passionately enough, it must be true. It doesn’t work that way.

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Laura L. Walsh, Psy.D.'s avatar

Thanks for writing this. I’ve passed your knowledge and experience on to young transmen I see in my psychology practice who are starting T.

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Citternist's avatar

Sad story Buck. Sorry you had to endure this. Your voice is valuable so young women considering transition can perhaps be more clear-eyed about what to expect. Thanks for sharing.

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Penny Adrian's avatar

She is a trans woman, not a woman. But I would not call her a man. I do not consider people who have medically transitioned to be the same as others of their birth sex, unless they de-transition.

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Renegade Transsexual's avatar

Thing is Buck. In my day and as far back as 1949 transsexual meant removal of male gametes in males and female reproductive organs in females.

Trans doesn't mean that anymore. From gynandromophs of both orientations. Females that take testosterone and have heterosexual sex. Then expecting that keeping said anatomy isn't going to cause issues. Not to mention what people see as a woman or a man. There was a time when if someone wished to change over, it had to be as complete as was possible.

A woman knew that anyone a little bit suspect entering a bathroom was a transsexual.

Yea their has always been the few gynandromophs ( shemales ) attracting gynandromorphofiles ( gamps ), but before social media, they were presumed to be transsexuals and were private about what they kept between their legs.

Now with 80% according to Phill Illy, who I agree with him. Are autoandrphiles .

Their is nothing wrong with atypical sexual orientations.

It is the presentation which is important. Not being half hearted in resprct for the actual opposite sex by becoming a transsexual, and not a half thing.

That was the start of trans Ideology.

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Joseph Nelson's avatar

The annoying thing about the tweet at the top of the article is that one valid answer could be: “You can’t tell from the photo (unless you know the [in this case notorious] individual).” This could be a gender non-conforming dude in a dress, who has no interest in claiming a trans identity. The gyno has decided she can tell from looking at outward appearances the sex of person, which amounts to saying “girls always wear dresses (and have vapid ecstatic smiles on their faces).”

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Joseph Nelson's avatar

The annoying thing about this tweet is that one valid answer could be: “You can’t tell from the photo (unless you know the [in this case notorious] individual).” This could be a gender non-conforming dude in a dress, who has no interest in claiming a trans identity. The gyno has decided she can tell from looking at outward appearances the sex of person, which amounts to saying “girls always wear dresses (and have vapid ecstatic smiles on their faces).”

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Hal's avatar

Thank you for your honesty and clarity on this topic. Refreshing and urgent in the current political context. Staggering how political medicine has become

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Sufeitzy's avatar

It's quite simple, it is a man impersonating a woman. Your note is on Biology, let's speak about that.

In biology, one sex impersonating another of the same or different species is called sexual mimicry, it occurs in all classes of complex animals except for amphibians. The giant cuttlefish can actually alter half its body to appear female to a competitive male, while simultaneously appearing as male on the other half to impregnate the dominant male's harem with a tentacle. Conversely, the female hyena grows a large pseudo-penis from her clitoris, and tends to be quite dominant in a pack.

The use of sexual mimicry in males is to fuctionally avoid male competition, and gain access to guarded females to reproduce. Sexual mimicry in females is generally functionally used to ward off unwanted male attention, and conserve resources for offspring.

In humans, sexual mimicry has the same purpose as in any other animal.

Human males use it to avoid male competition, and thus we see that males impersonating women have half the rate of violent death of other males. Likewise, they use it to gain reproductive access to women without other male presence, like prison rape; gain male territorial marking access with urine as they use female restrooms without male presence; and to gain sexual pleasure from access to female intimate spaces like locker rooms in sports, without male presence; and to gain mail supremacy over females in sports, without other male presence.

Human females use it to gain control of sexual aggression by males in order to control or avoid unwanted sex contact, and therefore reproduction, as well as conserve resources for offspring.

Female imitation by human males can be so profound they are unaware of it, which is a key strategy in Biology (von Neumann game theory: Unawareness) to avoid detection of a behavior by not being aware of it.

Often males imitating females are 'hypersexual', imitating the most sexualized version of women, prostitutes. These males are also very attracted to female institutions of all kinds, feminist enclaves, lesbian groups, women's festivals, any place where there is access to female groups without male presence. Lesbians are ideal targets because there is a complete guarantee of no male presence ever.

Because they have a fragile position acting female which is easily discovered, they are attracted to situtions of sexual ambiguity in order to constantly re-affirm their femininity to avoid discovery, so they create and use the term "gender" with it's every-varying definitions, they are attracted to the indeterminate sexual states during puberty, and they also are attracted to states of menopause, and andropause with changes in sexual activity, and types of identity. In the most advanced state of mimicry, they redefine all terms of sex around themselves as a baseline, so ordinary male and female are redefined in relation to the mimic as "cis-". They redefine motherhood as relating to "people" like themselves, they redefine misogyny as the negative attention they attract imitating women.

It's Biologically very simple. Wrasse and Parrot fish, Red deer, Dung Beetles, Lizards and Turtles, several apes, many birds have sexual mimicry, as well as orchids, and even one species of firefly that sexually mimics females of a different species to attract males and eat them.

High-competition reproduction systems with large differences between male and female will always evolve ways to 'cheat' nature.

It's also called "sneaky fuckers".

Enjoyed "Cirque Noir", I collect gay porn clowns. I have unusual tastes.

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The Flood's avatar

This could be about transphobia of the doctor refusing to see you. Instead it’s about Dylan Mulvaney and Twitter. Why is that?

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Samhain's avatar

Because biological reality matters. That's the entire point of the post.

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