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PollIf Christopher Hitchens was alive today, would he object to TRA? (subjective opinion)
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Hi, Ovarittes! In modern times numerous 'skeptics', including militant atheists, have pledged their loyalty to the gender cult with its dualistic view that we all have gendered souls that can get trapped in the wrong body and that whenever it happens, what determines whether an individual is male, female or something else is their ineffable essence only the person in question can access. Examples include Rebecca Watson, PZ Meyer, Genetically Modified Skeptic and Rationality Rules.
2011 was the year when cancer-affected Christopher Hitchens, one of the most famous atheists actively and openly fighting against religion, said goodbye to our world of mortals forever (now he can find out if he was wrong about God or not). It was also the year when Jazz Jennings, a pre-teen boy celebrity with gender dysphoria whose transitioning became public, got put on a path to sterility via puberty blockers. The case of Jazz Jennings was, at least to me, a symbol of the rising problem of TRAs, who - back then in the early 2010s. - didn't use to cause much issues compared with our times. This is why I am not surprised by the fact that Mister Hitchens didn't manage to adress transgenderism while being an active writer and speaker.
However, I often wonder whether or not (and how) he would talk about this movement if he was still alive today. After all, his fans know this famous quote that seems to be the exact opposite of the 'you can be a girl born in a male body, Jazz' narrative.
Nobody wants to be told about the countless minor horrors and humiliations that become facts of “life” when your body turns from being a friend to being a foe: the boring switch from chronic constipation to its sudden dramatic opposite; the equally nasty double cross of feeling acute hunger while fearing even the scent of food; the absolute misery of gut–wringing nausea on an utterly empty stomach; or the pathetic discovery that hair loss extends to the disappearance of the follicles in your nostrils, and thus to the childish and irritating phenomenon of a permanently runny nose. Sorry, but you did ask... It’s no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don’t have a body, I am a body.
What's your view?
The Cross Dressers Wife by Dee A Levy
In The Curated Woods by Ute Heggen
Found these on Trans Widows Voices website.
Thank you! I will find both of these.
TransWidows Voices also features the stories of trans widows (mine among them).
Thank you--I read the stories there a while back--may be time to read them again. And thank you for sharing your story! That can't have been easy.
Writing and sharing my story was part of my healing. I also share my store in the upcoming film on transwidows by Vaishnavi Sundar, "Behind the Looking Glass."