@Ben Shapiro RE: Transgender is a mental illness.
7 years ago
Please take a moment to read this. Especially if you're an artist drawing for me
Look at this conservative man, Ben Shapiro, soap boxing to likeminded shallow sighted fools about who and what transgender people think and feel, as if this biased, hateful warmongerer has any notion of understanding for such things.
The thing is that this is not 'sexuality' we're talking about. It's gender identity. He says a man cannot become a woman and vice versa with the snip of a knife, and in an offensive display of generalization, he's correct. However, he's intentionally boiling the issue down to promote his own point which is, fundamentally, moot. You see, a man who wants to be a woman, or vice versa, is not clinically insane, or suffering from a mental illness. They're suffering from a case of misalligned identity. It's similar to a man feeling like he wants to be christian when he's in fact muslim, except in such a case, the transition is quite easy, as well as not only societally acceptable but also encouraged, depending on which part of the planet you live in.
Claiming that these people who are searching for a way to be happy with their physical/external existence, are suffering from a mental illness, is barbaric and vulgar. It steps all over peoples' right to choose from themselves and is, thoroughly, unamerican and unconstitutional. The paramount fact is that once someone is above the age of 18 and unless an unbiased psychologist can without a shadow of a doubt diagnose with a transsexual as having a mental health disorder, then these people, regardless of sexual orientation, preference, or outward expressive conduct, have the constitutional right to choose for themselves what's best for them, be it what they wear, or how they look.
This man, Ben Shapiro, is everything that's wrong with American and, truth be told, global society at this time; inconsiderate, old-school, self-righteous soap box preachers whose own viewpoint of what is 'normal' is entirely fabricated by what their upbringing was like, and how conservative or liberal their household was. These are not his opinions, but the opinions of his parents and grand parents and other family members, who ingrained it into him to think this way, and through intelligence and an adult viewpoint, attempts desperately to put a logical explanation behind such offensive, fundamentally incorrect notions. He's smart enough to know that what he himself thinks is blatantly false, but he piles up all of this childhood ingrained ideals of sexual oppression and normalized social structure.
I'm a male, I'm Caucasian, I'm married with kids, and a tax-paying American. And I say unto you, Ben Shapiro; Proper Americans with an understanding of acceptance and common decency for your fellow man and woman regardless of their personal opinions, goals, and aspirations, do not, I repeat, do not condone your barbaric viewpoint, neatly wrapped in a disguise of concern for transgender people, which is, in truth, when unwrapped, naught but a misguided disgust and hatred for something you neither care to, nor ever will, understand.
You make me sick sir, and I dearly hope that viewpoints such as yours, mr. Shapiro, will one day, hopefully soon, be nothing but an unfortunate, dark period in American history.
Did I have a mental illness? No. Do I now? No.
All I had was a potential idea of what I wanted others to perceive me as. No different from a man or woman wanting others to identify them as Christian or muslim, or a biker or an executive, a soldier or a desk clerk, a surfer or a gourmet chef. Gender identity is no different from an occupational identity, and wanting to be externally and cosmetically perceived in certain ways. This, all of it, has absolutely no grounds in mental health, whatsoever. In fact, I dare say it's on the same level as, back in the 'good old days' as people like Ben Shapiro idolize and glorify, when homosexuality was considered a mental health issue and gay men and women from all walks of life were put in barbaric 'anti gay' camps where they were meant to be 'purified' of this illness of the mind. Ben Shapiro's ideals about transgender people and mental illness is no different from this barbaric notion, and I'm thoroughly disgusted with him having any right to slander a socially acceptable preference in such a way.