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Lisa's avatar

I think it’s very important to address the claim that one reason to accept eunuch as a new identity is to protect people from self harm as they will mutilate themselves if castration is not accepted by society and therefore paid for by insurance. This seems disingenuous and a way to avoid the focus on the paraphilia and child abuse inherent in this troubled community. We don’t give people prone to cutting sharper knives or cut their arms ourselves to avoid messy self harm. We don’t do gastric bypass on people with anorexia so that they can lose weight more “safely.” We provide explorative therapy and sometimes hospitalize them to prevent self injurious behavior. 

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Recynd's avatar

It’s horrifying to watch--in retrospect--all this develop, and I can’t help but feel I was somehow an unwitting dupe, having bought into the “straight but not narrow” and other ridiculous tropes fed to us in the 90s (and before). Little by little, literature, film, TV, and music got edgier and edgier (which I loved), then it was sanitized and corporatized...and now we’re here: over-educated, under-employed, and mono-cultured.

Our babies are sitting ducks for perverts to pick off...

Thank you for your work.

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