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RantI wanted a female therapist. I got matched with a TiM.
For the second time, I went in search of some counseling services and specified I wanted a female therapist and got matched with a TiM.
Two separate counseling services: one at a university, one in an app. Both times, they "match you" with the perfect person for you, and you don't exactly get to decline. You can walk away from the counseling services, which is what I did both times.
Both times they asked whether I wanted a Male, Female, or Other.
Both times I chose Female.
Both times, they gave me men.
I am beyond frustrated with this incredibly stupid ideology that asks me to violate my boundaries to make someone else comfortable. And no, I don't want to discuss the intimate workings of my life, especially my sexual history and current (distinctly female) health-related problems with a biological male.
This is the kind of thing that peaked me. I never had and still do not have hatred for any trans-identifying people I have known. But be honest. Call yourself a transwoman, if that is what you are. But please stop trying to "trick" me into seeing you as an actual biological female exactly like me in every single way when we both know that is not what you are. Maybe you think I just don't understand you, or have empathy for you. OK, well, that seems to be how you feel about me. Live your life however you want. Just for the love of god, stop trying to gaslight me.
I have the original that was published in 1999 and downloaded the 2014. This chapter is like night and day between the two books.
I really hate how Gender Ideology has seeped into the things I love best: books.
So far the Mystery genre umbrella hasn't been effected, yet. But Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror definitely has because it's speculative fiction. It's malleable enough for the insertion. There has been a certain amount of frequency of writers going into Trans subs asking for information.
Interesting, what are some of the differences (seems like a lot!) between the two versions?
I agree. Talking about intersex people or people with AIS in the context of gender is harmful and cruel. Now that I've read this chapter, I have the language for participating in conversations about intersex people. I won't though, because the LGBT cult doesn't allow conversation, but I would be ready.
I haven't looked, but I wonder if that later materials at the end of this edition talk about "lady brains" and our wider brain diversity in genes expressed from the X chromosome. The research was just beginning. We need more research into the female body, but I guess anyone reading this book already knows that.
I appreciate how she started this chapter with an argument between a man and a woman, then revealed that it was about her parents, and the effect it had on her. She's very good at balancing dialogue, interviews, and expository passages.
It's really a shame how so much of the inclusivity movement has started with good intentions (body positivity,
intersexVSD* language, mental and sexual health awareness) and it's all become something so stifling and unproductive.*Variations of Sexual Development