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'Trans Violence Is a Real Thing, and It Is Out of Control'
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'No doubt I will get a few emails from people who think I am demonizing
people with gender dysphoria for writing about this, but that is not my
intent.
People who are genuinely gender dysphoric and not just enjoying erotic Autogynephilia (getting sexually aroused by imagining themselves to be a
female and playing out that fantasy) suffer from a potentially
debilitating mental illness, and they do need treatment. Not medical
treatment in most cases, but serious psychiatric or psychological care.
As with depression or anxiety, "just get over it" is not helpful advice.
But there is a new class of violent trans activism, and it is waaaayyyyy
out of control. Mass murders, sexual assaults, vandalism, and threats of
or actual use of violence have become quite common, and are far outside
the normal parameters of violent behavior in other population cohorts.
These people don't just want to live their life with dignity; they want
to hurt people.
Transgender people make up a TINY fraction of the population, even with
the explosion in self-identity and trans propaganda. Several of the
recent school shooters have been trans, for instance, and more
relevantly to today's issues the Tesla terrorism includes a large number
of trans activists for some reason.
Three out of the four people arrested so far in separate and
geographically dispersed attacks on Tesla are transgender. Statistically speaking, the idea that this is random is ridiculous, as in 1 in a
billion. If we were taking a random sample of people to commit such
crimes, you would expect the chance that any one of them was transgender
to be closer to 1 in 1000 or so.
1 in a billion could easily be called unusual, I think.
A good chunk of sex offenders in prison identify as trans, offending at
a dramatically higher rate than the general population. Transgender
"women" commit sex offenses at a rate 5x that of the male population, if
you can believe that.
Sex offenders who have been released from prison are allowed into girls'
locker rooms without question, leading to reoffense at alarming rates,
enabled by leftists who pretend that people with male genitals are
always to be believed when they blurt "I am a woman."
Mental illness is not a guarantee of violent tendencies by a long shot.
I know this because my family has a long history of mental illness and
none of us is remotely violent.
But certain kinds of mental illness can increase the propensity for
violence, and in any case all mentally ill people need outside help, not affirmation of their delusions. We wouldn't tell a depressed person that
they really would be better off dead, and shouldn't tell deluded people
who think they were born in the wrong body that they are right. We
should help them accept and be happy with themselves, lest we make them
even more mentally ill.
I do not think that gender dysphoria itself is tied to violent
tendencies, although that is a personal guess, not based on evidence.
Rather, I think the toxic brew of alphabet ideology,
oppression-mongering, and the "decolonization" narrative have pushed
unstable people in that direction.
Mass shootings are rare, even though it sometimes seems otherwise. Statistically speaking, the number of mass shooters is almost nothing
out of 330 million Americans. That such a large fraction of a tiny group
comes from an infinitesimally small demographic is a huge red flag.
What is happening, I believe, is that a toxic brew of ideology and
mental distress have combined to create a sense of peril for trans
people and it is transmogrified into hatred of the larger culture.
People are constantly told that their unhappiness is caused by a cruel
society that hates them and that the proper way to deal with it is to
strike back.
My own Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan, proudly shows off her
"Protect Trans Kids" emblazoned with a threat: a knife meant to kill.
Poke around, and you will find countless examples of transgender people threatening violence, committing violence, or fantasizing about it.
Many of these incidents are done by bad people who are inclined to do
bad things, but many others have been goaded into a twisted view of the
world because of the messages with which they are bombarded.
Riley Gaines doesn't want to kill trans people. Matt Walsh doesn't want
to kill trans people. I don't want to kill trans people. In fact,
statistically speaking, trans people suffer from one of the lowest
murder victim rates in the nation, and most of those victims were sex
workers who perform very dangerous work--especially dangerous when they
don't inform their "clients" they are equipped with male genitals.
There are no hunting parties of trans people, but the propagandists keep telling trans people there are.
The result is this: an epidemic of violence by trans people. I fear it
will get worse before it calms down'
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