Gender dysphoria and anorexia show lots of brain similarities (alterations in networks mediating body perception), but you wouldn’t suggest anorexics are “born in the wrong body”
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@TatersForever5481 #235726
They don’t, or at least most of them don’t. I doubt most TERFs are true believers.
All they know is that anorexics view their body in a vastly different light than it actually is, and we don’t give them weight loss surgery or anything. They think/pretend that trans people are the same in the first part, so they use this analogy to push against gender-confirming medical work.
“Gender dysphoria and anorexia show lots of brain similarities (alterations in networks mediating body perception),”
@KZadBhat #235751
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.” (1984)
@PLMMJ #235736
Agreed about the ignorant comparisons of us with anorexics, but as someone who’s seen way too much of what TERFs say… I assure you that the vast majority of them are the truest of true believers. Yes, even if they say something that reads as insane/ridiculous, you better believe it: they mean every word.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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