In last week’s column, an observation on being able to feel like an ordinary woman unburdened by a felt need to be actively political anymore, I didn’t comment on how sweet it feels to me to be in a groove like that and still be capable of liking girls.
The hockey field killer was, from reports I have seen, also taking steroids. Look at his bulky biceps in the photos. Steroids are known to produce erratic and aggressive behavior (roid rage). This may have been a more immediate cause of his breakdown than the trans issues. But someone who is simultaneously expecting to be accepted as a woman and bulking up a set of masculine muscles has more than simple gender dysphoria or simple autogynophilia going on in their head. In any case, so many children are killed by divorced or separated parents (70% fathers) that there is a term for it, "Family annihilators." One such case being a transwoman doesn't make it a trans issue, but that is unfortunately how it is being spun.
Excellent points, Rita. I didn't make the steroids connection, but that is a lot of muscle bulk. The gender medicine may indeed have been incidental to this atrocity. At the same time, what kind of physician doesn't look at someone taking steroids to build muscles and see someone not suitable for medical transition?
And yes, that is how it is being spun, and likely to continue being spun. The other factors may be seen as background factors. The bottom line is that there's a population that is trans, or trans adjacent, whose behavior has gotten extreme.
The hockey field killer was, from reports I have seen, also taking steroids. Look at his bulky biceps in the photos. Steroids are known to produce erratic and aggressive behavior (roid rage). This may have been a more immediate cause of his breakdown than the trans issues. But someone who is simultaneously expecting to be accepted as a woman and bulking up a set of masculine muscles has more than simple gender dysphoria or simple autogynophilia going on in their head. In any case, so many children are killed by divorced or separated parents (70% fathers) that there is a term for it, "Family annihilators." One such case being a transwoman doesn't make it a trans issue, but that is unfortunately how it is being spun.
Excellent points, Rita. I didn't make the steroids connection, but that is a lot of muscle bulk. The gender medicine may indeed have been incidental to this atrocity. At the same time, what kind of physician doesn't look at someone taking steroids to build muscles and see someone not suitable for medical transition?
And yes, that is how it is being spun, and likely to continue being spun. The other factors may be seen as background factors. The bottom line is that there's a population that is trans, or trans adjacent, whose behavior has gotten extreme.