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The global political Left is having a collective conniption over a decision by the government of Peru to provide better mental health care for people suffering from transgender ideology and related illnesses. The Peruvian health ministry announced the decision last week in an effort to “guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health,” for men who believe they’re women and vice versa.
This decision subjects no one to any sort of conversion therapy; it merely ensures that people so afflicted have access to appropriate treatment under the nation’s Essential Health Insurance Plan. The decree, signed by Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, includes improved mental health coverage for people suffering from “transsexualism, dual-role transvestism, gender identity disorder in childhood, other gender identity disorders and fetishistic transvestism.”
It was upon announcing these improvements to mental health care that all hell broke loose. A headline in the Daily Mail reports that the decision is “sparking fury” among transgender ideologues. Human Right Watch calls the move “bigotry,” while in Congress, Rep. Robert Garcia of California issued a statement calling it “homophobic.”
The rage surrounding Peru’s decision suggests policy makers in Lima are doing something unprecedented in human history. In truth, it signals a return to normalcy in how the medical community addresses such ailments and best meets the mental health needs of people suffering from a recognized illness.
Behaviors that manifest themselves through trans ideology were classified as a mental disorder by the World Health Organization as recently as 2019. But through the application of political pressure, the WHO changed its position five years ago to reflect the preferred ideology of the authoritarian Left, which recognized trans ideology as a potent means of separating people from their families and reality itself.
A casual observer would reasonably conclude that transgender ideology is a form of mental illness because it’s marked by a person’s belief that they are something they’re not and can never be. In the psychiatric profession this is considered a delusional disorder, defined by the renown Cleveland Clinic as “an unshakable belief in something that’s untrue.”
The Cleveland Clinic explains that people suffering from this psychotic disorder often experience one of two broad categories of delusions – bizarre and non-bizarre. A non-bizarre delusion is a belief in something that could possibly be true, like the feeling that you’re being followed or a lover cheating on you. By comparison, bizarre delusions “include beliefs that are impossible in our reality.”
These clinical definitions apply, for example, to any man claiming to be a woman and demanding to be recognized as such despite his male chromosomal structure, hormonal balance, skeletal and muscular physiology and his anatomy. Such a belief is demonstrably unsupportable in reality. While a man may mutilate his body or corrupt his endocrine system in an attempt to appear female, the inescapable truth is that he’s a man and always will be.
People suffering from bizarre delusions deserve appropriate, comprehensive and compassionate mental health care. This is what Peru has recognized and is now doing as a matter of policy. Providing care that meets the mental health needs of patients is the polar opposite of the false criticisms leveled against the government, and reveals these proponents of trans ideology as willing to harm people to advance their political agenda. It is this deliberate harming of people that makes it so evil.
Peru’s decision to better care for those suffering from trans ideology follows the April report from esteemed British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass on how the National Health Service of the United Kingdom has been mistreating similarly afflicted people there. Slowly, health authorities around the world are recognizing the errors of society and the medical community in dealing appropriately with people demonstrating behaviors reflecting trans ideology.
The Left’s meltdown in response to these events in Peru and the UK is designed to give the false impression that treating this ideology as a mental illness is radical when in fact, it is simply a return to what people have known from time immemorial: Men are men and women are women. If someone believes otherwise for themself and demands others believe their delusion, they require a level of care commensurate with the severity of their illness, and which will restore them to a normal, healthy life. That is what Peru is doing and it will be fascinating to see when the next domino falls.
A while back I saw an interview with a man who transitioned 30yrs ago. He said before he was allowed to get the surgery he was required to have years of psychological counseling.
Back then you had to travel to Sweden to get transitional surgery.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California issued a statement calling it “homophobic.” ? Why is gender dysphoria even associated with homosexuality, unless homosexuality is considered, by gay people, to be a dysphoria in and of itself?
“While a man may mutilate his body or corrupt his endocrine system in an attempt to appear female, the inescapable truth is that he’s a man and always will be.” Indeed. The same goes for women corrupting their endocrine systems and resorting to the most bizarre mutilations in an attempt to bring their bodies in line with their dysphoria. A concerning side effect of supra-physiological dosing of testosterone is the effect on the female brain, which was never meant to handle the dosing. A sudden onset of women as mass shooters has been surfacing.
There have also been cases of liver cancer in girls who were given testosterone. I am unclear whether this reflects the pharmaceutical product (i.e. synthetic testosterone as more harmful than natural testosterone) or whether a woman’s physiology is just not designed to process this sort of treatment. It does occur to me that some of the transgender rage cases might be because the perpetrators have attributed their mental distress, which may in fact be due to something entirely different, to the notion of being in “the wrong body”, and when they’ve had their operations and nothing has changed in their psychological functioning, they are left in despair because negligent clinicians have not addressed underlying problems.
Hope is growing in South America, now Peru, previously Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador.
Wake up to reality, America, before it is too late.
This could be one answer to the US immigration problem, if South America becomes a better place to live – though it would not solve the issue of non-South Americans filtering through.
It’s IMPOSSIBLE to “treat” mental disorders with sexual-mutilation surgeries. These twisted and deranged efforts to associate Frankenstein and Mengele as therapeutic pioneers, is beyond insane.
Not only that But Peru went after Greenpeace for messing up the Nazca Plains with their stupid Message
America has been the source of all kinds of strange thinking as part of their political strategy to isolate individuals. Democrats tell them that they are unique and that they are isolated and that they are being persecuted. The next step is to Dems. tell them they will be helped and that the Dems. will help represent them, give them special status and protections. Democrats will do ANYTHING to get a vote and this is but one of their sick strategies. Then the Dems. live up to it by spreading the same insanity around the world. Now that Pandoras’ box has been opened we have to deal with it. NEVER vote Democrat because this is what you get.
The dirty little secret of the Left is that they hate trannies as much as anyone, they are just happy to use them politically to cause as much societal division and chaos as possible while destroying families and the church. Communism thrives in chaos. The Marxists don’t care who they use, they are focused on a goal, that of bringing down western civilization.
Which is the reason why they can make common cause – temporarily – with radical Islam, it is just that both groups have very different visions of what would happen “the day after”. Different, that is, in terms of who would be in charge, and what their operating manual would be – perhaps not so very different as regards the outcome for the rest of us.
The doctors who are giving mastectomies to girls and castrating boys need to be prosecuted for torture. In a sane world.
Reading in the Imprimis newsletter, the doctors in the USA at major med centers are making a BUNDLE!! What a racket!!