As a psychotherapist, one of my specialties is working with folks in the LGBT demographic. There is one common factor among nearly all (I cannot think of one exception) the trans clients who I have seen, and that is trauma history, particularly in childhood. There is much to say here, but in the interest of time, traumatic experiences have a fragmenting effect on the human psyche. Generally speaking, the worse the trauma, the more fragmentation there is. Fragmentation of the psyche makes identity formation difficult, and finding ways to create and maintain safety become paramount. In this light, it is easy to see why a young girl who was sexually abused over the course of her childhood might want to "become" a man. Let us also be clear that taking testosterone will have the effect of reducing anxiety.
I could have a lot more to say here if anyone is interested. I just don't currently have the time. I do not claim any authority higher than my lived experience with my clients, just FTR.
I assume the calming effect of the testosterone is transitory? And are you saying everyone throughout LGBTQ , or primarily Trans?
Obviously it is not Trans who are driving these societal changes, the Trans movement seems driven instead by forces much greater, who seek to profit and change the very idea of gender through the entire culture, which to my mind is like another form of abuse.
It isn't exactly a calming effect but, rather, a confidence effect. One feels stronger, more self-assured, so less anxious. The effect is transitory, particularly if you are injecting the stuff. Coming off of it can lead to depression and suicidality.
I am talking about trans folks, not LGB folks. I do not believe that homosexuality is a result of trauma. I also am not convinced that all trans folks are the way they are due to trauma, far from it. I am just pointing out a correlation in my observations.
Please also note that my observations are just that, anecdotal!
I'm sure a percentage of any population will be homosexual and/or trans regardless of trauma. I assume trauma results in pathologies that are not just about being gay or Trans. I assume vast increase in Trans particularly among young girls and people on the autism spectrum has little to do with biology and more to do with conditioning.
Thanks for your insight. Personally I would like to understand more about the LGBT community. I understand that trauma, especially childhood trauma, has an impact on the individual but what I don’t understand is what kind or type of trauma would have people so distraught that they come to believe that changing their sex will change their mental well being.
Both my parents were highly traumatized children. They were lived in German occupied Italy during WW2. My mother witnessed and was an actor in horror. A couple of examples... my uncle and his 7 year old friends found a grenade ( German troops left them around as a joke to get children to play with them) and they played with it like a ball. One of the boys noticed the plug and he was curious so he pulled it and when it hissed he got scared and tossed it in my uncle’s direction. When the shrapnel hit him it blew out his gut and his intestines were exposed ( it also blinded him in one eye). People that came to help put him in a wheel-barrel and took him home and my grandparents brought him to quasi medical centre. Medics said he would not survive because he could no longer have proper bowel function before any operation could be preformed. The story as to how my grandmother saved my uncle’s life is amazing but too long to share. My uncle survived. I would describe my uncle as a very strong, tough character. He rarely spoke of what happened to him but my aunt told me he often had nightmares where he screamed for his mother. So traumatic event stored.
My mother had so many stories of horrific trauma no one would believe it all happened to one child. The one event that created much sadness is the death of her older sister ( by 10 years and a mother figure to her) a week before she was to marry. My aunt was caught in a bombing raid while she was out. She took cover in a building that got hit but she was not injured by the initial bombing. As she was getting out of the building a part of the concrete doorframe gave way and hit her head and fractured her skull. My mother told me her sister’s brain was visible. My aunt was found in the rubble and taken home where medics told my grandmother that she might get better. Anyway, she didn’t and my aunt was to be taken by horse and wagon to next town that had a real hospital. My aunt lay down in the wagon with her head cradled in my mother’s lap. As the wagon moved up and down it caused my aunt’s brain to move and my mother told me it came out from the skull and she died in transit in my mother’s lap. The pain and sorrow never left my mother. My mother was also a victim of my father’s physical abuse. My mother experienced so much violence and trauma it would take a great deal of time to unpack it.
So here is my question. Why did people who had horrific experiences in childhood not question their sex? My friends and neighbours’ children who have had operations to transition and the worst traumatic event was a divorce in one case. No physical or sexual abuse. They were not children trying to survive a war zone where so much evil is abound.
I don’t get it. How can people who went through the violence of war and famine not question if they are in the right body and upper middle class kids who grew up with everything and in fairly peaceful circumstances want to have operations to change their sex?
I know grooming is a word that is not woke, but it effectively describes what is happening. These young girls especially can find a whole community/industry ready to tell them they are Trans and beautiful for it. From the outside it looks like classic predator and victim behavior.
Transhumanism is humanism taken to its logical conclusion. The opposite philosophical perspective is antinatalism.
Until medical science is able to reverse the ageing process, I have no interest in transhumanism. Our mortality defines what we are, no matter how many stories we tell ourselves, or how many implants we insert.
Yes. Well, unless the creative muse grabs control of our fingers and dystopic epic poesy pummels us with a perfection of perfidy seen only in purgatory. ;-)
Nov 1, 2022·edited Nov 1, 2022Liked by William Hunter Duncan
WHD, you inspired me to write a poem! And to publish it here.
(I discovered that the blanks are not kept, so the formatting is not what I have created. I tried some html, and that didn't work. So this is a secondary formatting to my intention.)
There is quiet. There is quiet everywhere. And the noise of insects
makes the quiet louder.
There are stars. So many stars across the sky,
visible as my distant ancestors enjoyed.
The expanse is light free, free oh so free!
I want to dance, get up and dance with that freedom
of being simple.
Simple. Without meaningful thought, or the thought to be meaningful.
And the starlight.
The hustle and bustle is done and we get to rest.
The rest is long, and all the rest has fallen back into the story.
THE story. And what a story it was,
looking for someone to tell it
someone to hear it.
Where was the truth lost?
Now I hope that the alone are alone without loneliness.
As many journalists and providers in the sane psychiatric community say: the whole of society has been traumatized. Thomas Hubl wrote a book: Healing Collective Trauma, that I found interesting. He shows how people can gather together in small groups, with a trained facilitator, and heal collectively. Honestly, all we need is for others to sit witness to our pain and grief without judging us. This was the work churches once did before practically all of them went off the deep end.
The big problem is how to group-up in what Vaclav Havel called "parallel polis" or parallel groups that operate like his Velvet Underground that met in a bar having conversations, listening to poetry and music.
I'm trying to run an initiative to form Community Councils where people can gather to meet up with their neighbors, watch a program, and then have discussion afterwards. Voters will instruct City Council to appropriate monies from the General Fund to pay for it.
Another initiative would establish a public-owned news that would ferret out corruption at local, state and federal levels--that would be paid for in the same manner. Hopefully this news would become a standard-bearer, and put The New York Times to bed with their imperialistic, war-mongering operatives.
I try occasionally to find other view points... came across jre podcast #1855 with Chris best....an insider perspective on big med system that is way more involved than i was aware of. Left me wondering if where we are is just a perfect storm in action.
Dr Alexander posted this link. Gonnering is articulating some of what I have been feeling about it. Which reminds me I need some supplies. Should my elderly parents get covid I need to prevent them from having to go to the hospital.
Nice post. I'm a cishuman, myself. The looming spectre of inevitable physical death is precisely what makes life so (bitter)sweet.
I'm also looking forward to your poem. I was perhaps a bit harsh on your Phaucee and the Antichrist post, but I went back and actually read it, and I found it thoughtful and insightful, and I enjoyed it. Please forgive me: I'm an idiot.
Idiots don't revisit things they rejected earlier and then assess it honestly. I'm glad you enjoyed it. As to the poem it better be good I am talking about it so much.
This is FIRE, my man. "Trans" (in all its forms) is indeed the fruit of a poisoned tree, thinly disguised as laissez faire moralism. That it leaves behind a trail of madness, infertility and death is carefully scrubbed and masked, but for those elite transhumanist it is a most definitely "a feature, not a bug."
Thanks Mark. I know a lot of people have been frustrated about what to call this thing that is attempting to totally reorder our society, it is such a force and yet so diffuse.I like transhuman for the implied transcending, turning the concept of enlightenment upside down.
Hear what Musk says about transhumanism, and his description of the inevitable path that he will ably assist in and that gives a cause ( at least to me) of significant anxiety and grave concern.
As a psychotherapist, one of my specialties is working with folks in the LGBT demographic. There is one common factor among nearly all (I cannot think of one exception) the trans clients who I have seen, and that is trauma history, particularly in childhood. There is much to say here, but in the interest of time, traumatic experiences have a fragmenting effect on the human psyche. Generally speaking, the worse the trauma, the more fragmentation there is. Fragmentation of the psyche makes identity formation difficult, and finding ways to create and maintain safety become paramount. In this light, it is easy to see why a young girl who was sexually abused over the course of her childhood might want to "become" a man. Let us also be clear that taking testosterone will have the effect of reducing anxiety.
I could have a lot more to say here if anyone is interested. I just don't currently have the time. I do not claim any authority higher than my lived experience with my clients, just FTR.
I assume the calming effect of the testosterone is transitory? And are you saying everyone throughout LGBTQ , or primarily Trans?
Obviously it is not Trans who are driving these societal changes, the Trans movement seems driven instead by forces much greater, who seek to profit and change the very idea of gender through the entire culture, which to my mind is like another form of abuse.
It isn't exactly a calming effect but, rather, a confidence effect. One feels stronger, more self-assured, so less anxious. The effect is transitory, particularly if you are injecting the stuff. Coming off of it can lead to depression and suicidality.
I am talking about trans folks, not LGB folks. I do not believe that homosexuality is a result of trauma. I also am not convinced that all trans folks are the way they are due to trauma, far from it. I am just pointing out a correlation in my observations.
Please also note that my observations are just that, anecdotal!
I'm sure a percentage of any population will be homosexual and/or trans regardless of trauma. I assume trauma results in pathologies that are not just about being gay or Trans. I assume vast increase in Trans particularly among young girls and people on the autism spectrum has little to do with biology and more to do with conditioning.
Thanks for your insight. Personally I would like to understand more about the LGBT community. I understand that trauma, especially childhood trauma, has an impact on the individual but what I don’t understand is what kind or type of trauma would have people so distraught that they come to believe that changing their sex will change their mental well being.
Both my parents were highly traumatized children. They were lived in German occupied Italy during WW2. My mother witnessed and was an actor in horror. A couple of examples... my uncle and his 7 year old friends found a grenade ( German troops left them around as a joke to get children to play with them) and they played with it like a ball. One of the boys noticed the plug and he was curious so he pulled it and when it hissed he got scared and tossed it in my uncle’s direction. When the shrapnel hit him it blew out his gut and his intestines were exposed ( it also blinded him in one eye). People that came to help put him in a wheel-barrel and took him home and my grandparents brought him to quasi medical centre. Medics said he would not survive because he could no longer have proper bowel function before any operation could be preformed. The story as to how my grandmother saved my uncle’s life is amazing but too long to share. My uncle survived. I would describe my uncle as a very strong, tough character. He rarely spoke of what happened to him but my aunt told me he often had nightmares where he screamed for his mother. So traumatic event stored.
My mother had so many stories of horrific trauma no one would believe it all happened to one child. The one event that created much sadness is the death of her older sister ( by 10 years and a mother figure to her) a week before she was to marry. My aunt was caught in a bombing raid while she was out. She took cover in a building that got hit but she was not injured by the initial bombing. As she was getting out of the building a part of the concrete doorframe gave way and hit her head and fractured her skull. My mother told me her sister’s brain was visible. My aunt was found in the rubble and taken home where medics told my grandmother that she might get better. Anyway, she didn’t and my aunt was to be taken by horse and wagon to next town that had a real hospital. My aunt lay down in the wagon with her head cradled in my mother’s lap. As the wagon moved up and down it caused my aunt’s brain to move and my mother told me it came out from the skull and she died in transit in my mother’s lap. The pain and sorrow never left my mother. My mother was also a victim of my father’s physical abuse. My mother experienced so much violence and trauma it would take a great deal of time to unpack it.
So here is my question. Why did people who had horrific experiences in childhood not question their sex? My friends and neighbours’ children who have had operations to transition and the worst traumatic event was a divorce in one case. No physical or sexual abuse. They were not children trying to survive a war zone where so much evil is abound.
I don’t get it. How can people who went through the violence of war and famine not question if they are in the right body and upper middle class kids who grew up with everything and in fairly peaceful circumstances want to have operations to change their sex?
I know grooming is a word that is not woke, but it effectively describes what is happening. These young girls especially can find a whole community/industry ready to tell them they are Trans and beautiful for it. From the outside it looks like classic predator and victim behavior.
Transhumanism is humanism taken to its logical conclusion. The opposite philosophical perspective is antinatalism.
Until medical science is able to reverse the ageing process, I have no interest in transhumanism. Our mortality defines what we are, no matter how many stories we tell ourselves, or how many implants we insert.
I suspect trans interventions are likely to have the opposite effect on longevity, which I think is already well demonstrated.
I look forward to your poem post as a great excuse to poem post in a comment. :-)
It will ba a nice reprieve from horror and dystopia ;)
Yes. Well, unless the creative muse grabs control of our fingers and dystopic epic poesy pummels us with a perfection of perfidy seen only in purgatory. ;-)
I feel like I'm on a timer.
But the poem is already writen to be dug out of the purgatory where ever I buried it.
WHD, you inspired me to write a poem! And to publish it here.
(I discovered that the blanks are not kept, so the formatting is not what I have created. I tried some html, and that didn't work. So this is a secondary formatting to my intention.)
There is quiet. There is quiet everywhere. And the noise of insects
makes the quiet louder.
There are stars. So many stars across the sky,
visible as my distant ancestors enjoyed.
The expanse is light free, free oh so free!
I want to dance, get up and dance with that freedom
of being simple.
Simple. Without meaningful thought, or the thought to be meaningful.
And the starlight.
The hustle and bustle is done and we get to rest.
The rest is long, and all the rest has fallen back into the story.
THE story. And what a story it was,
looking for someone to tell it
someone to hear it.
Where was the truth lost?
Now I hope that the alone are alone without loneliness.
Far away a dog howls.
Try it with wooden swords, deer antlers and a stave sometime.
LOL! Will do.
This Strange New World is where fun goes to die.
It can indeed be characterized as humorless. And the humorless are never the sort you want running a society.
As many journalists and providers in the sane psychiatric community say: the whole of society has been traumatized. Thomas Hubl wrote a book: Healing Collective Trauma, that I found interesting. He shows how people can gather together in small groups, with a trained facilitator, and heal collectively. Honestly, all we need is for others to sit witness to our pain and grief without judging us. This was the work churches once did before practically all of them went off the deep end.
The big problem is how to group-up in what Vaclav Havel called "parallel polis" or parallel groups that operate like his Velvet Underground that met in a bar having conversations, listening to poetry and music.
I'm trying to run an initiative to form Community Councils where people can gather to meet up with their neighbors, watch a program, and then have discussion afterwards. Voters will instruct City Council to appropriate monies from the General Fund to pay for it.
Another initiative would establish a public-owned news that would ferret out corruption at local, state and federal levels--that would be paid for in the same manner. Hopefully this news would become a standard-bearer, and put The New York Times to bed with their imperialistic, war-mongering operatives.
Awesome. I would love to hear more about it.
I try occasionally to find other view points... came across jre podcast #1855 with Chris best....an insider perspective on big med system that is way more involved than i was aware of. Left me wondering if where we are is just a perfect storm in action.
Love your contributions to my days 💚
https://russellgonnering.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-68
Dr Alexander posted this link. Gonnering is articulating some of what I have been feeling about it. Which reminds me I need some supplies. Should my elderly parents get covid I need to prevent them from having to go to the hospital.
Nice post. I'm a cishuman, myself. The looming spectre of inevitable physical death is precisely what makes life so (bitter)sweet.
I'm also looking forward to your poem. I was perhaps a bit harsh on your Phaucee and the Antichrist post, but I went back and actually read it, and I found it thoughtful and insightful, and I enjoyed it. Please forgive me: I'm an idiot.
Idiots don't revisit things they rejected earlier and then assess it honestly. I'm glad you enjoyed it. As to the poem it better be good I am talking about it so much.
This is FIRE, my man. "Trans" (in all its forms) is indeed the fruit of a poisoned tree, thinly disguised as laissez faire moralism. That it leaves behind a trail of madness, infertility and death is carefully scrubbed and masked, but for those elite transhumanist it is a most definitely "a feature, not a bug."
Thanks Mark. I know a lot of people have been frustrated about what to call this thing that is attempting to totally reorder our society, it is such a force and yet so diffuse.I like transhuman for the implied transcending, turning the concept of enlightenment upside down.
I'm working on a long form journalistic piece that uses the strange history of Wachowski.brothers as a model. Hope to get your feedback.
Gladly. I am honored. I will look for it.
Hear what Musk says about transhumanism, and his description of the inevitable path that he will ably assist in and that gives a cause ( at least to me) of significant anxiety and grave concern.