Now everybody can enjoy the same.

A good therapist can be of great help to people. I’ve seen it happen many times. It used to be more common, but right now – and especially in the arena being discussed in this thread – therapists’ hands are tied in many states.

I’m very glad you got the help you needed. I wish such help was more readily available to today’s young people, and I think it’s an outrage that it’s not.

I do have a dog (or skeleton) in this trans hunt. It is personal for me.

My father was too absent (and absenting — too trusting) and my mother too emotionally girly (and absorbed by my older sisters kives), that I suffered what would today be called gender confusion.

As a teenager, this led to chronic panic disorder, and acute episodes, with anxiety and depressive symptoms. In short, borderline personality disorder.

I was given the option if a support group fot my paraphilia at the local university.

Today this would have been a 39 minute video chat, as rejated by Matt Walsh.

Self-mutilation. Too few questions asked.

Instead, I chose to continue multiple years of tough psycho-dynamic psychotherapy. My annoying paraphilia eased and disappeared as I progressed with traditional treatment.

That route is costly, time-draining. I’m sure the “easy answers” today that require lifelong replacement hormones are much cheaper per year, but likely cost similarly over a lifetime. And with much more permanent opportunity costs.

Therefore, given my hard experience with gender confusion before trans became a fad, I can agree with Neo’s reaction to seeing this documentary.

But even sticking to, say, Jordan Peterson interviewing a Trans-changer is too hard for me to stay with.

The problem of better synthesizing my past to myself is obvious too me — the different path of false identity now is made too easy.

In the Autumn of 2021, I befriended a young man just 22. His hurdles were like mine, we agreed: neglected and abused masculinity.

But instead his oldest sister acted out the repressed drama of her mother’s life, first by becoming a lesbian — and then recently, gender identity confusion. His sister’s drama sucked the available family attention air out of his teen year’s if life, if I may mix metaphors.

The young man’s mother was a women’s history professor at UW-La Cross, and rose to become Chair of the Women’s Studies Department. Her success became his cross to bear, as men were vilified in hus home.

All thus stuff like this thread is difficult for me to absorb. I believe Neo is correct. Posters here are correct. But it is angst inducing to me to watch her recommended viewing.

I can only put this top line documentary aside for times when I’m braver and more able to confront evil head-on.

If course, U see growing up today frim boy to man as much more burdened and blamed like a bastard.

But what can I do?

As does Kate in stating there is NO “Pride” therein.

huxley avers:”Re: Money

“I’m persuaded that much of the homeless problem in blue states is held in place by the social services apparatus which grifts away much of the tax money to administrators, bureaucrats and related organizations, who — alley-oop — vote Democrat.”

PRECISELY. Under Clinton, an anti-racist way of laundering funding to Democrat Activist groups like Acorn — with Obama as either director or lawyer for it — was devised.

Then in Obama’s near trillion dollar economic recovery act in 2009, slush funds to similar and many more groups were achieved.

Biden regrifted even more.

When it comes to partisan institutionalized corruption, this heinous way sure makes my short-list for causus bellus.

About Neo’s post, yeah, I read about this last night and it’s making all the circles on the Right-side Media. As it should.

No cows, no hoof-and-mouth disease.

Mike K, Kate:

Absolutely.

I’m persuaded that much of the homeless problem in blue states is held in place by the social services apparatus which grifts away much of the tax money to administrators, bureaucrats and related organizations, who — alley-oop — vote Democrat.

Interesting how that works.