Comments by "Shalanaya" (@Shalanaya) on "Chris Williamson"
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The major problem that we all should address is actually an unconscious generational child abuse gendering little babies based on their genitalia or gametes as if we were robots and dressing and addressing them accordingly because many humans out there are a naturally born transgender or with completely different genders, Jewish Torah itself had multiple genders as well as multiple countries in this world, our western culture has been imposing this kind of sexualization on babies from early on against their will for decades, DECADES, it is nothing but grooming and child abuse as we deprive them of an opportunity to be true to themselves in any moment of their development, especially during childhood when they're still self exploring, the more they're pushed into unnatural artifical gender binary system the more they tend to grow up confused and repressed with all kinds of psychological issues, this relates to numerous studies done on the harm of the strict gender roles tied to gender binary, this used to lead to confusions and mental illness later on, especially for those who are indeed born transgender, not to mention pushing them into wrong puberty to furthermore deform/mutilate their healthy body. It goes both ways, especially if we care about the individual and their agency more than our ideological oppressive belief systems, religious or not, it is not a natural development for a transgender human, they are undergoing evolutionary changes through the natural elements of mother nature the same like anyone eating food or taking a medicine. Hormonal and surgical transition needs to be regarded as a sacred process and a holistic medicine that tackles the entire body in order to bring harmony to the whole body including the mind, the same way like yoga, exercise or diet, which is why even yogis have been recomending trans people to transition in order to ground their true gender into their own body, because grounding is essential to the well being of the whole body.
Gender affirming care is a life-saving medical necessity for people of any age, the decision not to provide puberty blockers isn't "waiting to make a decision until they're older". The hormones are gonna happen. You're just making a decision for them, and one that is statistically likely to be harmful. It is never, ever anyone’s decision to transition but theirs, If someone thinks cis kids should be allowed autonomy over abortions and blood transfusions but trans kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition, then they need to fix their heart. Kids should be given time to think" - this is literally what puberty blockers are for. People who argue this in bad faith are actually saying "kids should be forced to go through the the puberty of their AGAB". This is exactly the same as forcing cis children to transition."Let kids be kids" implies that "kids" are hetero or non-trans by default, and that being trans is some sin of intrusive thought. Why are they being told to be cishetero before they get to decide for themselves. Obviously there's no discussion about banning puberty blockers for children having precocious puberty so THEY get a chance to be kids. Puberty turns youths into adults, “blocking” puberty in adults is like giving contraception to people in their second trimester or checking for traffic after you’ve already been hit by the car.
And let me remind some people who don’t know, In everyday language, the word natural is often used to describe goods that are wholesome or not made by humans, but in the language of science, natural has a much broader meaning. Within science, the term natural refers to any element of the physical universe — whether made by humans or not. This includes matter, the forces that act on matter, energy, the constituents of the biological world, humans, human society, and the products of that society. So even though we might not think of them as “natural” (in the everyday sense of the word), science can study things like the human smile, human decision-making, artificial sweetener, and learning algorithms for robots because they are part of the physical universe around us.
In practice, what’s natural is often identified by testability. Natural things behave in predictable ways — though we may not yet fully understand them — which have observable outcomes. This predictability means that we can test hypotheses about natural entities by making observations. Ghosts, for example, are supernatural entities without a basis in the physical universe and so are not subject to the laws of that universe. Hence, ghosts are outside the purview of science, and we cannot study their existence (or lack thereof) with the tools of science. If, however, we hypothesize ghosts to be natural entities, made up of matter and energy and bound by the laws of the universe, then we can study them with the tools of science — and must accept the outcome if the tests we perform suggest that ghosts do not exist as natural entities.
From a more holistic or even esoteric perspective, natural is when the internal and external world come together in unity or alignment, in a sense it is not more natural to be a breatharian than eating food, because each one of us has a different composition of energy and matter that seeks its harmonious reflection, which is going to differ for everyone. This seems to have been hijacked by some people to become its own religion for them, a naturalism so to speak, resulting in actions depriving others their own natural way of being and existing, because human beings are nature itself that seeks harmony in body, mind and spirit.
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These children that should NEVER ever transition in adulthood, because then its too late and the damage has already been done, unless they are still unsure and need more time, we do not talk about those, we talk about those whose gender identity can be seen on MRIs and their gender dysphoria is pushing them into suicide. It cant be stressed enough how important it is to realize this Suicide rates are much higher for those who did not transition than from any detransitioners, which is very rare!!! Many trans kids dont live till adulthiood either. There are deeply misguided people out there like you trying to save only non-trans children by a belief that a child can’t consent to a hormonal treatment without realizing they can’t consent to their puberty either, which is bound to deform their body just as much from their perspective, it just reveals how normalized this indoctrination that favors non-trans people already is. By not allowing them access to puberty blockers/hrt they are condemning them to the same fate as the people they claim to care about who detransition because of regret, because they're forcing them into the wrong puberty..
The longest and most extensive study on the matter recently found that out of 720 trans teenagers who started hormone therapy half a decade ago, 98% were still continuing their treatment today. Desistance and detransition myths are lies designed to create panic and a transphobic backlash.
When it comes to waiting until a child is mature enough is another fallacy using flawed science, many neuroscientists themselves have been speaking up to this. Brain never stops developing, they don't exist in isolation and there isn't one universal brain structure from which you can derive general truths about a vague criteria such as maturity. Brains are ever-changing and diverse. When it comes to prefrontal cortex of the brain, its function is inhibition, stopping us from doing things that would otherwise violate social norms, this can be really useful because sociaty is really important to humans, but it can also stop us from being ourselves, especially when being ourselves violates social norms. Kids do not have mature PFC, but it equaps them neurobiologically better to be themselves before it fully matures, because they do not have have those inhibitory brain structures to stop them from being who they are. But this is what people don't want, it is calculated by these human monsters in political power to use PFC for this reason. A child needs to mature for things like alcohol, because their body is still developing, and alcohol have severe effects on the health of the body, but NOT hormones that even intersex children get already at 12 years old!!! Our body needs hormones, and these hormones have an effect on depression in these dysphoric children. I am not a proponent of puberty blockers, even though they have been using them since 1980's for kids, and I believe we'll get to a point kids will be put on hormones right away once therapists use more advanced methods how to determine who is suitable for this therapy.
The formation of new brain cells keeps on going in the hippocampus and the subventricular zone, so from the neuroscience side this isn't even true (directed at people who say the neuroscience claim is true). How long do we think it's gonna take before they start refusing to let older people transition because their brains are "in decline".
Neuroscientists agree the 25 thing is a pop culture myth. ‘Maturity is a slippery concept, especially in neuroscience. A banana can be ripe or not, but there’s no single metric to examine to determine a brain’s maturity. In many studies, though, neuroscientists define maturity as the point at which changes in the brain level off. This is the metric researchers considered in determining that the prefrontal cortex continues developing into people’s mid-20s.’ (And then they say this isn’t necessarily true for everyone). Obviously all of this is contextual, very loose, and not necessarily predictable as everything in the brain is so complex and interwoven. It’s interesting, but the conclusions people have drawn around this are just extrapolations that don’t make much sense. You could just as well say this is because this is the age in our society people tend to have gotten into more of a regular routine/job and are therefore learning and being overall less creative for example. And studies have shown different bits of the brain just still change throughout life anyways. It all just rings of developmental theory which has so many ties with ablism/racism/colonialism. It makes it easy to deny certain types of marginalized people their agency and personhood. There is many things a child does not need to grow up for, and things like pulling teeth or hormonal therapy is one of those, especially if both are threatening life!
It is a child abuse to push children into the wrong puberty and actually should be considered as a sex crime, and many of us out there are working to establish it that way, in fact it is almost equal to being raped! There will always be mistakes and regret in a medical treatment, however people weaponize this by using people’s fears. In India there is about 4 million of trans people, in the US slightly over 1 million, so it is a guess there could be around 30 million on this planet, there's very few detransitioners in comparison to the majority once you start asking gender therapists about their clients. Some kids need to go on hormones before puberty, some don't, gender dysphoria is genetic, it tends to cause stress on the nerves conected to the heart and bowels, and sometimes causing psycho-somatic symptoms on the body because of the never-ending stress caused by the wrong hormones flooding into the brain. These children should not wait because of someone's fear that they might change the mind in the future. That is insanity, who does that to other things that happened in childhood, because as children we go through numerous life altering irreversible things that can never be taken back. Once we grow up it is our job to learn to live with what life has given to us, pure and simple, just like with any condition we are born with.
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To better understand the whole picture I'll start by quoting Deleuze - "The Interpretation of Utterances" -
"There are not two sexes, there are n sexes; there are as many sexes as there are assemblages. And since each of us enters into several assemblages, each of us has n sexes. When children discover that they are reduced to one sex, male or female, they discover their powerlessness: they lose the machinic sense and are left only with the signification of a tool. And then a child really does fall into depression. They have been damaged; their countless sexes have been stolen!" (n is a symbol in mathematics for natural numbers).
Then I'll quote Wilhelm Reich's "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" -
"Suppression of the natural sexuality of the child, particularly of its genital sexuality, makes the child apprehensive, shy, obedient, afraid of authority, “good” and “adjusted” in the authoritarian sense; it paralyzes the rebellious forces because any rebellion is laden with anxiety; it produces, by inhibiting sexual curiosity and sexual thinking in the child, a general inhibition of thinking and of critical faculties.
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation.
At first, the child has to adjust to the structure of the authoritarian miniature state, the family; this makes it capable of later subordination to the general authoritarian system. The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety"
Sexual repression stems largely from religious and conservative background, which stood behind Nazi Germany at the time. This is just a little point I made for those who believe Nazis were in any way open minded leftists or socialists with regards to sexuality or gender. In my view it has a lot to do with the expression of our natural sexual energy in any point of our life. This is why children that are meant to transition simply need to transition, personally I am against blockers altogether and instead would prefer for children to go on hormones right away by balancing their own natural hormones first to determine if their their own hormones play a role in their dysphoria, if dysphoria persists despite their own natural hormonal levels, and it meets certain criteria, then they need to go on cross sex hormones right away, but there has to be an intuitive approach to gender therapy that relies on the consistency and degree of dysphoria.
Let me delve deeper into this, if bodies can spontaneously morph, then there is no reason to think that brain chemistry can't morph as well. In fact, less so, since we already know that brain chemistries do alter and can be improved with medication. ADHD, Bipolar, depression, anxiety, and so on. And, since hormones are chemicals, they too can eleviate cognitive imbalances. More specifically, we can think of brains as organs that function best in the right chemical bath... for them specifically. Meaning each brain requires its own specific chemical signature. Thus, an outward appearing "male" might have a brain chemistry that requires more estrogen to reach its optimum state, and would by contrast be sluggish and even counter productive if given testosterone. Likewise, testosterone for some "female" appearing individuals might induce clarity and focus, that the naturally produced estrogen does not provide. I understand that some transgender people who do not require or support medical transition may find this an inconvenient and hard truth. While there is a social component to gender (particularly in the enforcement of gender roles), it is by no means the only or even the primary element in an individuals lived gender.
People need to embrace the potentiality of pain or death in the name of pursuing our most authentic self. And it can only happen by freeing ourselves from the metaphysics of transcendence, dualism, universality and being, and embrace metaphysics of immanence, monism, processes and becoming, to realize possibility, movement, multiplicity and difference beyond the abstraction of categories and identities, and only then arrive in the world characterized by constant processes, multiplicities, connectedness and the production of difference. We need to embrace new becomings and defy imposed ideas of being, to see that good and bad, right and wrong both serve a purpose, that even if a child makes a mistake through transition and realizes it in adulthood, they gain more wisdom and self knowing through this journey, and that can only happen through the radical acceptance of both good and bad, light and dark.
I'll also quote Albert Camus on this -
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
The body is the material vessel for the different spectral apparitions that can embody it. It's no surprise the social machine has to mark similar bodies in similar ways to justify the categorised social disciplining of minds that occupy them. The body may be stuck in historical, material forces and causality that engender certain physical attributes and abilities to its beholder, but the beholder so far as considered to be the radically dual subject-mind that emerges on the substrate of object-body is still radically free to manifest itself in the social world only limited by the possibilities of cultural animations, avatars, multitude of personifications that exist in the social-symbolic space, and is the space where categorisation, domestication happens, an exorcising of virtualities, a reproduction of the binary world, that then discipline-interpellate the subject as an organ in the social order in its proper place.
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Good thing that science proves that porn addiction is a myth, lets end it that way. Its been used as a scapegoat. It is unimaginable the impact of how much porn has helped millions of people around the world, me included, I started watching porn when I was 8, and it helped me to be more open and vulnerable, to learn to face and heal my shame since then. Addiction comes from an unhealthy body and mind from the very beginning, before porn even came into people's lives. Like any entertainment it has been proven numerous times how harmless it is, dont blame something outside of you, look into yourself, that is where the problem is. Porn outside of it this is neutral, or in many cases like mine, its been very beneficial to the soul.
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There is no free will according to most spiritual masters, because even what we think is our free will, it is determined by the oversoul and our higher self. The idea of free will is a delusion of the unchecked ego that thinks they are free and fully independent from everything else. People couldnt be possibly more dettached from reality when they believe that. Do you realize that even our language we use is a product of the society? We are deeply tied to the collective and the oversoul, we are not independent, we are one piece of the puzzle, but always part of it acting on behalf of the greater whole wherher we realize it or not. Eckhart Tolle speaks from a perspective of the ego, it is part of his philosophy which has a purpose to empower, but he is not aware of the conditions that determine our will, it is never free, it is controlled by the colective consciousness, because our cosnciousness is never separate. It is the arrogance of the human ego to think we have a free will.
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@jen7662 This is actually absoluitely and utterly false and pretty sick what you've said because it stems from a deep ignorance and fears of what if. That's not what life is about. The fact that you compare being medical heaqlthcare to drinking alcohol made me almost puke. People need to work on their fears first before dictating to others how they should live, especially children that suffer. It needs to stop already. Children should NEVER ever transition in adulthood, because then its too late and the damage has already been done. It cant be stressed enough how important it is to realize this Suicide rates are much higher for those who did not transition than from any detransitioners, which is very rare!!! Many trans kids dont live till adulthiood either. There are deeply misguided people out there like you trying to save only non-trans children by a belief that a child can’t consent to a hormonal treatment without realizing they can’t consent to their puberty either, which is bound to deform their body just as much from their perspective, it just reveals how normalized this indoctrination that favors non-trans people already is. By not allowing them access to puberty blockers/hrt they are condemning them to the same fate as the people they claim to care about who detransition because of regret, because they're forcing them into the wrong puberty..
The longest and most extensive study on the matter recently found that out of 720 trans teenagers who started hormone therapy half a decade ago, 98% were still continuing their treatment today. Desistance and detransition myths are lies designed to create panic and a transphobic backlash.
When it comes to waiting until a child is mature enough is another fallacy using flawed science, many neuroscientists themselves have been speaking up to this. Brain never stops developing, they don't exist in isolation and there isn't one universal brain structure from which you can derive general truths about a vague criteria such as maturity. Brains are ever-changing and diverse. When it comes to prefrontal cortex of the brain, its function is inhibition, stopping us from doing things that would otherwise violate social norms, this can be really useful because sociaty is really important to humans, but it can also stop us from being ourselves, especially when being ourselves violates social norms. Kids do not have mature PFC, but it equaps them neurobiologically better to be themselves before it fully matures, because they do not have have those inhibitory brain structures to stop them from being who they are. But this is what people don't want, it is calculated by these human monsters in political power to use PFC for this reason. A child needs to mature for things like alcohol, because their body is still developing, and alcohol have severe effects on the health of the body, but NOT hormones that even intersex children get already at 12 years old!!! Our body needs hormones, and these hormones have an effect on depression in these dysphoric children. I am not a proponent of puberty blockers, even though they have been using them since 1980's for kids, and I believe we'll get to a point kids will be put on hormones right away once therapists use more advanced methods how to determine who is suitable for this therapy.
The formation of new brain cells keeps on going in the hippocampus and the subventricular zone, so from the neuroscience side this isn't even true (directed at people who say the neuroscience claim is true). How long do we think it's gonna take before they start refusing to let older people transition because their brains are "in decline".
Neuroscientists agree the 25 thing is a pop culture myth. ‘Maturity is a slippery concept, especially in neuroscience. A banana can be ripe or not, but there’s no single metric to examine to determine a brain’s maturity. In many studies, though, neuroscientists define maturity as the point at which changes in the brain level off. This is the metric researchers considered in determining that the prefrontal cortex continues developing into people’s mid-20s.’ (And then they say this isn’t necessarily true for everyone). Obviously all of this is contextual, very loose, and not necessarily predictable as everything in the brain is so complex and interwoven. It’s interesting, but the conclusions people have drawn around this are just extrapolations that don’t make much sense. You could just as well say this is because this is the age in our society people tend to have gotten into more of a regular routine/job and are therefore learning and being overall less creative for example. And studies have shown different bits of the brain just still change throughout life anyways. It all just rings of developmental theory which has so many ties with ablism/racism/colonialism. It makes it easy to deny certain types of marginalized people their agency and personhood. There is many things a child does not need to grow up for, and things like pulling teeth or hormonal therapy is one of those, especially if both are threatening life!
It is a child abuse to push children into the wrong puberty and actually should be considered as a sex crime, and many of us out there are working to establish it that way, in fact it is almost equal to being raped! There will always be mistakes and regret in a medical treatment, however people weaponize this by using people’s fears. In India there is about 4 million of trans people, in the US slightly over 1 million, so it is a guess there could be around 30 million on this planet, there's very few detransitioners in comparison to the majority once you start asking gender therapists about their clients. Some kids need to go on hormones before puberty, some don't, gender dysphoria is genetic, it tends to cause stress on the nerves conected to the heart and bowels, and sometimes causing psycho-somatic symptoms on the body because of the never-ending stress caused by the wrong hormones flooding into the brain. These children should not wait because of someone's fear that they might change the mind in the future. That is insanity, who does that to other things that happened in childhood, because as children we go through numerous life altering irreversible things that can never be taken back. Once we grow up it is our job to learn to live with what life has given to us, pure and simple, just like with any condition we are born with.
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@jen7662 The entire hormonal and surgical treatment we need to regard as a holistic care that tackles the entire body, just like a diet or yoga. When we are sick, we don’t change the mind, we change the body that affects the mind. Trans healthcare is amongst the first that avoids the monstrosities of the past where people were pushed into lobotomy, electrical shocks, psychotherapy and sent into mental institutions, anything just to change the brain so people could fit into their norm and social constructions of the gender, now the approach is to change the body form instead, yet that is the threat to the system that exploits the body in order to oppress the mind that seeks authentic self expression, calling it an ideology is a way how to make it seem like they can force the change in the mind again. The truth is people spend so much energy and effort clinging to physicality to argue their bias. It's ultimately not about physicality. It's an issue on a higher level of psychological and spiritual. The body is just a vessel of the karmic world for us to use and manipulate to reflect us, not a material object such as a body to manipulate us to reflect it. The entire life is about correcting our karmic imprints on the matter of our being. We use gametes to sex the bodies to uphold a sexual contrast/polarity, however in case of trans bodies, it would take using less binary markers of the body to support the sexual contrast in their sexual relations, this si the entire paradox. And for those who may not know - in everyday language, the word natural is often used to describe goods that are wholesome or not made by humans, but in the language of science, natural has a much broader meaning. Within science, the term natural refers to any element of the physical universe — whether made by humans or not. This includes matter, the forces that act on matter, energy, the constituents of the biological world, humans, human society, and the products of that society. So even though we might not think of them as “natural” (in the everyday sense of the word), science can study things like the human smile, human decision-making, artificial sweetener, and learning algorithms for robots because they are part of the physical universe around us.
In practice, what’s natural is often identified by testability. Natural things behave in predictable ways — though we may not yet fully understand them — which have observable outcomes. This predictability means that we can test hypotheses about natural entities by making observations. Ghosts, for example, are supernatural entities without a basis in the physical universe and so are not subject to the laws of that universe. Hence, ghosts are outside the purview of science, and we cannot study their existence (or lack thereof) with the tools of science. If, however, we hypothesize ghosts to be natural entities, made up of matter and energy and bound by the laws of the universe, then we can study them with the tools of science — and must accept the outcome if the tests we perform suggest that ghosts do not exist as natural entities.
From a more holistic or even esoteric perspective, natural is when the internal and external world come together in unity or alignment, in a sense it is not more natural to be a breatharian than eating food, because each one of us has a different composition of energy and matter that seeks its harmonious reflection, which is going to differ for everyone.
This seems to have been hijacked by some people to become its own religion for them, a naturalism so to speak, resulting in actions depriving others their own natural way of being and existing, because human beings are nature itself that seeks harmony in body, mind and spirit. Gender affirming care is a life-saving medical necessity for people of any age, the decision not to provide even puberty blockers isn't "waiting to make a decision until they're older". The hormones are gonna happen. You're just making a decision for them, and one that is statistically likely to be harmful. It is never, ever anyone’s decision to transition but theirs, If someone thinks cis kids should be allowed autonomy over abortions and blood transfusions but trans kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition, then they need to fix their heart. Kids should be given time to think" - this is literally what puberty blockers are for. People who argue this in bad faith are actually saying "kids should be forced to go through the the puberty of their AGAB". This is exactly the same as forcing cis children to transition."Let kids be kids" implies that "kids" are hetero or non-trans by default, and that being trans is some sin of intrusive thought. Why are they being told to be cishetero before they get to decide for themselves. Obviously there's no discussion about banning puberty blockers for children having precocious puberty so THEY get a chance to be kids. Puberty turns youths into adults, “blocking” puberty in adults is like giving contraception to people in their second trimester or checking for traffic after you’ve already been hit by the car. Plenty of kids used to get puberty blockers going way back to the 1970's.
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@jen7662 To better understand the whole picture I'll start by quoting Deleuze - "The Interpretation of Utterances" -
"There are not two sexes, there are n sexes; there are as many sexes as there are assemblages. And since each of us enters into several assemblages, each of us has n sexes. When children discover that they are reduced to one sex, male or female, they discover their powerlessness: they lose the machinic sense and are left only with the signification of a tool. And then a child really does fall into depression. They have been damaged; their countless sexes have been stolen!" (n is a symbol in mathematics for natural numbers).
Then I'll quote Wilhelm Reich's "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" -
"Suppression of the natural sexuality of the child, particularly of its genital sexuality, makes the child apprehensive, shy, obedient, afraid of authority, “good” and “adjusted” in the authoritarian sense; it paralyzes the rebellious forces because any rebellion is laden with anxiety; it produces, by inhibiting sexual curiosity and sexual thinking in the child, a general inhibition of thinking and of critical faculties.
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation.
At first, the child has to adjust to the structure of the authoritarian miniature state, the family; this makes it capable of later subordination to the general authoritarian system. The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety"
Sexual repression stems largely from religious and conservative background, which stood behind Nazi Germany at the time. This is just a little point I made for those who believe Nazis were in any way open minded leftists or socialists with regards to sexuality or gender. In my view it has a lot to do with the expression of our natural sexual energy in any point of our life. This is why children that are meant to transition simply need to transition, personally I am against blockers altogether and instead would prefer for children to go on hormones right away by balancing their own natural hormones first to determine if their their own hormones play a role in their dysphoria, if dysphoria persists despite their own natural hormonal levels, and it meets certain criteria, then they need to go on cross sex hormones right away, but there has to be an intuitive approach to gender therapy that relies on the consistency and degree of dysphoria.
Let me delve deeper into this, if bodies can spontaneously morph, then there is no reason to think that brain chemistry can't morph as well. In fact, less so, since we already know that brain chemistries do alter and can be improved with medication. ADHD, Bipolar, depression, anxiety, and so on. And, since hormones are chemicals, they too can eleviate cognitive imbalances. More specifically, we can think of brains as organs that function best in the right chemical bath... for them specifically. Meaning each brain requires its own specific chemical signature. Thus, an outward appearing "male" might have a brain chemistry that requires more estrogen to reach its optimum state, and would by contrast be sluggish and even counter productive if given testosterone. Likewise, testosterone for some "female" appearing individuals might induce clarity and focus, that the naturally produced estrogen does not provide. I understand that some transgender people who do not require or support medical transition may find this an inconvenient and hard truth. While there is a social component to gender (particularly in the enforcement of gender roles), it is by no means the only or even the primary element in an individuals lived gender.
People need to embrace the potentiality of pain or death in the name of pursuing our most authentic self. And it can only happen by freeing ourselves from the metaphysics of transcendence, dualism, universality and being, and embrace metaphysics of immanence, monism, processes and becoming, to realize possibility, movement, multiplicity and difference beyond the abstraction of categories and identities, and only then arrive in the world characterized by constant processes, multiplicities, connectedness and the production of difference. We need to embrace new becomings and defy imposed ideas of being, to see that good and bad, right and wrong both serve a purpose, that even if a child makes a mistake through transition and realizes it in adulthood, they gain more wisdom and self knowing through this journey, and that can only happen through the radical acceptance of both good and bad, light and dark.
I'll also quote Albert Camus on this -
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
The body is the material vessel for the different spectral apparitions that can embody it. It's no surprise the social machine has to mark similar bodies in similar ways to justify the categorised social disciplining of minds that occupy them. The body may be stuck in historical, material forces and causality that engender certain physical attributes and abilities to its beholder, but the beholder so far as considered to be the radically dual subject-mind that emerges on the substrate of object-body is still radically free to manifest itself in the social world only limited by the possibilities of cultural animations, avatars, multitude of personifications that exist in the social-symbolic space, and is the space where categorisation, domestication happens, an exorcising of virtualities, a reproduction of the binary world, that then discipline-interpellate the subject as an organ in the social order in its proper place.
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There is no free will according to most spiritual masters, because even what we think is our free will, it is determined by the oversoul and our higher self. The idea of free will is a delusion of the unchecked ego that thinks they are free and fully independent from everything else. People couldnt be possibly more dettached from reality when they believe that. Do you realize that even our language we use is a product of the society? We are deeply tied to the collective and the oversoul, we are not independent, we are one piece of the puzzle, but always part of it acting on behalf of the greater whole wherher we realize it or not. Eckhart Tolle speaks from a perspective of the ego, it is part of his philosophy which has a purpose to empower, but he is not aware of the conditions that determine our will, it is never free, it is controlled by the colective consciousness, because our cosnciousness is never separate. It is the arrogance of the human ego to think we have a free will.
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