VERY STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.
24 years ago, I remember a cartoon in a newspaper that had a right-wing politician and a left-wing civil libertarian in bed side by side. Similarly, I remember a cartoon that showed Hitler and Stalin with Hitler dressed as a groom and Stalin as a bride, with their unholy alliance.
Today, we see a case of unusual bedfellows with radical feminists, typically left-wing, being on the same side as hardline conservatives. In Australia, there was a case where feminists who supported marriage equality, wait for it, were supportive of a woman who was admired by, hardly surprisingly, the face of the No Campaign for Marriage Equality.
My paternal grandfather used to say that we were under as much danger from the extreme left as we are from the extreme right, and in this case, definitely, I say, he’s right, and the trans exclusionary radical feminists are ironically, choosing to cherry pick articles by a person who doesn’t even use their correct name on a blog to poorly attempt to deconstruct transgenderism.
This blogger used the term “conversion therapy” haphazardly. Conversion therapy is not where a person sits down with a therapist and talks through their issues and reaches the conclusion of their own accord that they are not transgender; conversion therapy is where harmful practices are used to try to make a person heterosexual or cisgender. The practice was begun by the same man who devised ABA for autistics! I have seen examples of how conversion therapy is used in the USA, where people are given a tennis racquet and a pillow and they’re told to hit the pillow with the tennis racquet to knock the feelings down, or play basketball, drink Gatorade and call people “Dude.”
Psychiatrists and psychologists may be reluctant to send SOME people to an endocrinologist, but that is because they want to ensure that they are sending the RIGHT people for it. I can tell you, though, that forcing a person to be something that they do not identify with in their mind is harmful and does more harm than good!