Study: most people considering transitioning have mental imp

[bigtoughralf]

An audit of individuals accessing Ireland's gender dysphoria support service has found that 90% of them are autistic:

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/hea ... 34649.html

In some countries, individuals with gender dysphoria are often supported to under surgery removing their genitals.

[saxitoxin]

Sounds about right.

I can't recall where I read it (I'll look it up if someone throws a fit), but I believe I also saw somewhere where transitioning persons were six times more prolific consumers of social media than non-transitioning persons. The implication here is that social media makes transgenderism seem much more normal and widespread than it is in real life by emphasizing a faux normalcy of what is really rather rare and bizarre behavior patterns. For persons with limited IRL social interactions this leads to over self-diagnoses as transgender.

It also contributes to people aligned with a progressive political mindset seeking to self-diagnose as transgender; due to the left-wing program of intersectionalism, a social hierarchy is created in left-wing political circles in which members of oppressed groups (which now constitute 70% of the U.S. population and growing, as the definition of oppressed broadens each year) are elevated to privileged standing within the circle. People can't change their race or disability status, however, there is no objective determination of whether or not one is transgender; it relies on self-affirmation. Therefore, people can fulfill the natural human drive to achieve higher social status by convincing themselves that their heel fetish or love of pastel neckties means they're transgender or non-binary.

[saxitoxin]

I take that back, it was an underestimate. Currently 74% of the U.S. population is oppressed according to the form of equity intersectionalism used by the Democratic Party. As new categories of oppression are discovered - or less stringent categories created to which people can more easily affiliate (e.g. non-binary ... for straight men who want to join the LGBTQI oppressed group but still want to exclusively have sex with women) - this number can be expected to gradually increase until 99% of the population are oppressed. (It can never reach 100% as class warfare requires an opponent; 100% oppression removes incentive to mobilize as there is no longer an enemy to fight.)

Women: 51%
Black Men: 7%
Asian Men: 2%
Native American / Native Hawaiian Men: 1%
White Hispanic Men: 8%
White LGBTQI Men: 2%
White Disabled Men: 1%
White Jewish and Muslim Men: 1%
White Rehabilitated Male Convicts: 1%

The Party has recently started to flirt with the idea of "rural underserved" and "persistent poverty" oppressed classes to help it make inroads outside of the metro areas, particularly into Appalachia and the Cajun Lands. This is necessary as the Hispanic population is increasingly no longer willing to play ball at the levels they used to, so replacements are needed for that segment. They've so far been unwilling to recognize Atheists as oppressed since it would generate too much blowback from elements of the other intersectional classes, particularly Catholic Hispanics and Evangelical Blacks. But if they can get to that point it would be the ultimate coup and add millions to the rolls since it is even less onerous to declare oneself an Atheist - and, therefore, a victim of thousands of years of systemic oppression - than to declare oneself Non-Binary.