RE: Nonbinary woman mad that doctor won't chop her breasts off

( operaghost )
So before she decided she was trans, she had a history of anorexia and "compulsive exercise."

What if adopting a trans identity is just another sign of compulsive hatred toward her body, rather than some sort of innate identity that she just happened to only figure out about herself as an adult in her 30s?

( spiderberries )
Honestly I don’t understand how these NBs and TIFs live several decades and think they are totally unique in disliking their bodies and struggling to lose weight. That seems like a near universal experience for women, at least from what I’ve observed. Are they just utterly isolated from other females? Are they antisocial narcissistic main characters? I don’t know. I’m trying to find sense where there is none.

( rightnow )
The HAES/fat acceptance moment is so similar to the trans moment, it doesn't surprise me to see this overlap.

Both have origins in men's sexual fetishes.

Both are filled with the sheer entitlement that the world should suddenly change to accommodate them.

Both think they are entitled to people finding them attractive.

Both claim the science is settled, while being anti science and spreading falsehoods.

Both require people to deny common sense and what their own eyes tell them. "You can't tell someone is unhealthy just by looking at them!" is not that much different than "You can't tell tell someone's gender just by looking at them!

Both feed into delusion and mask underlying mental health conditions.

Both have a rapid activists that can't be reasoned with.

Both lead to bad health outcomes and early deaths. Although at least the HAES movement is against bariatric surgery, which as Exculantic states, typically leads to "predictable and nightmarish" outcomes. Unfortunately, the misinformation they spread about weight loss leads to it anyway.

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