It does concern me that so often it is the mothers pushing the transgender ideology. Do they just believe the invented statistics that say transitioning reduces suicide or is it more sinister? How can people not realise years of suppressing body and brain development will have disadvantages and that young children dont realise you can't actually change sex?
What makes you think they don't understand?
When you dedicate your life to the activism, you repeat mantras and affirmations all day long. Why do this?
'Trans women are women' is an example of a thought terminating cliche. The purpose of thought terminating clichés is to shut down discussion and critical thought.
So you have a bunch of activists deliberately employing this as a strategy.
Why did the act of repeating positive affirmation start?
Positive affirmations were developed in the 1970’s by neuroscientists, incorporating a modern understanding of psychotherapy and linguistics in order to consciously rewire thought patterns towards more desired outcomes. Affirmations can be stated anytime and tend to be complete sentences addressing something we wish to have or be as if we already have it in the present moment.
So getting people to repeat thought terminating clichés is potentially a harmful thing in the wrong hands because it not only can be used positively but also against people to quite literally brain wash people by rewiring how their brain operates. When people adopt them though there is an awareness of there being an alternative which people wish to deliberately erase.
This could be for positive reasons to improve self worth but equally to escape some reality which they do not wish to face up to.
I found watching the bbc's documentary 'who are you calling fat?' this week really interesting. They had a number of fat activists on it, and there was one in particular who used all the same language techniques and euphemisms that are present in the trans activism arsenal. Watching the program you can predict when they will 'get offended' and walk out of a conversation. The science denail is very much present and its evangelical in its ambition to 'convert' others. It's part of an active strategy to shield the self from something in society. It's also interesting that it's about body image too. It's worth a watch purely to see how this type of thinking isnt restricted to the trans debate, and by the woman's admission is a political ideology. Ideology trumps scientific evidence because the science tells inconvenient truths.
I do find it compelling that this wave of political force comes at a time when religion is on the wane in our society.
It is almost as if we have a human need to avoid certain things.
Indeed I saw last week a study reported on the news that the human brain shields us from the idea of dying. It deliberately doesn't accept the idea of ourselves dying in any situation as the default. We can understand the concept of others dying in the same situation but we frame it to ourselves as 'something that happens to other people'. It's thought to protect us psychologically so we don't go mad trying to avoid doing anything at all but it's easy to see how it could have a perverse side effect too in that it prevents us from empathy in certain situations too.
In short the brain, psychology of religious need, self preservation and inability to empathise with others are all interconnected and we live in an age where we are just beginning to understand this, and as such this can be used against us because we fail to recognise it and have a desire to simply believe something because it might protect us from the reality of our social experience.
Bit deep and long for 9.45 on a Friday morning but I think it's worth joining up dots a little here and pointing out this isn't a trans thing but a wider issue in our current society which poses a threat to our well being.