Wo Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit nicht mehr existieren dürfen, wo Biologie geleugnet wird, entsteht ein Sinnvakuum, in dem Gender-Ideologie florieren kann.
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An excellent article. Thank you. //
I think that cosmetic surgery has made all this possible. When I was a boy in the 1950's, I understood that my sex was set in stone. The whole idea of changing it was ludicrous to me. Furthermore, cosmetic surgery was a new medical phenomenon, and not one to be trusted. For example, the Jewish woman in our neighborhood who had her nose fixed ended up ruining her appearance. People didn't automatically put their trust in doctors. //
With more information available, you would think that today's young people would be at least as sophisticated as people of my generation were, but they seem to really believe that their bodies can be changed from one gender to another. Older people like me understand that it just isn't possible. //
It wasn't long ago that I read about a young woman who was "transitioning" to being a male. She said how thrilled she was to find out from her surgeon that her new "penis" would be large. She didn't seem to have any understanding that no surgeon can give a woman a penis. My limited understanding is that the penises that trans men are given are cigar-shaped lumps of fat with skin on them. They may thread the urethra through the middle so that the trans man can pee out of it, but that hardly makes it a penis. It is just a facsimile. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn't get softer or harder depending on whether the trans man is aroused. It certainly doesn't ejaculate semen or sperm. If the surgeons are giving their patients the impression that the gender of their bodies will really be changed, then the surgeons are lying to their patients. //
Coming of age in the seventies, as I did, it was drilled into my head that happiness comes from loving yourself as you are (assuming, of course, that you aren't deformed or have murderous impulses). I was never satisfied with my body, but I always understood that the solution to that was simply to be less critical of myself -- i.e., to at least TRY to be satisfied with my body -- or to exercise more. Today's young people, believing that surgery can perform miracles, don't see any reason to do the hard work of learning self-acceptance and self-love. It's a shame. //
Let me respond to something else: The idea of allowing children to choose their gender with some kind of certificate might satisfy some children enough to prevent them from wanting to undergo the actual physical procedures. To that extent, the pretense of the certificate might postpone the day when they actually start harming themselves with hormones, etc. //
(The comment software seems to be malfunctioning. It keeps closing up the paragraphs, so I have put slashes between the paragraphs.) //
An excellent article. Thank you. //
I think that cosmetic surgery has made all this possible. When I was a boy in the 1950's, I understood that my sex was set in stone. The whole idea of changing it was ludicrous to me. Furthermore, cosmetic surgery was a new medical phenomenon, and not one to be trusted. For example, the Jewish woman in our neighborhood who had her nose fixed ended up ruining her appearance. People didn't automatically put their trust in doctors. //
With more information available, you would think that today's young people would be at least as sophisticated as people of my generation were, but they seem to really believe that their bodies can be changed from one gender to another. Older people like me understand that it just isn't possible. //
It wasn't long ago that I read about a young woman who was "transitioning" to being a male. She said how thrilled she was to find out from her surgeon that her new "penis" would be large. She didn't seem to have any understanding that no surgeon can give a woman a penis. My limited understanding is that the penises that trans men are given are cigar-shaped lumps of fat with skin on them. They may thread the urethra through the middle so that the trans man can pee out of it, but that hardly makes it a penis. It is just a facsimile. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn't get softer or harder depending on whether the trans man is aroused. It certainly doesn't ejaculate semen or sperm. If the surgeons are giving their patients the impression that the gender of their bodies will really be changed, then the surgeons are lying to their patients. //
Coming of age in the seventies, as I did, it was drilled into my head that happiness comes from loving yourself as you are (assuming, of course, that you aren't deformed or have murderous impulses). I was never satisfied with my body, but I always understood that the solution to that was simply to be less critical of myself -- i.e., to at least TRY to be satisfied with my body -- or to exercise more. Today's young people, believing that surgery can perform miracles, don't see any reason to do the hard work of learning self-acceptance and self-love. It's a shame. //
Let me respond to something else: The idea of allowing children to choose their gender with some kind of certificate might satisfy some children enough to prevent them from wanting to undergo the actual physical procedures. To that extent, the pretense of the certificate might postpone the day when they actually start harming themselves with hormones, etc. //