Gender ideology presents many parents with the choice between having a “dead daughter or a living son,” allowing medical activists to promote so-called “gender-affirming care” as the only way to protect a gender-confused child. Physically, this “care” relies on harsh treatments such as puberty blockers and irreversible surgeries that mutilate the body in order to “treat” the child. Psychologically, gender-affirming care encourages the development of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) among the people it claims to be healing.
According to the 5th version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, some common attributes of NPD include a need for admiration, lack of empathy, fantasies of deservingness, and entitlement. All these traits are encouraged by gender-affirming care.
Need for Admiration
Gender-affirming care is not limited to the psychiatrist’s chair. It extends to the whole of society. Not only must the struggling patient view their preferred sense of self as the most important part of them, but so must everyone else. This philosophy ignites a burning need for societal admiration, an insatiable call for respect and approval. This is an integral part of NPD that runs rampant in the transgender community.
An example of this at work is the preferred pronoun debate where society is expected to adhere to the preferred third-person pronouns that transgender persons choose to ascribe to themselves.
Third-person pronouns, however, are only used when referencing someone not present or at least someone you are not directly addressing. They have nothing to do with how you talk to someone, and everything to do with how you think of them.
This pronoun debate has given transgender persons the idea that they add legitimacy to their feelings by being admired for who they present themselves as.
Lack of Empathy
When a person is unable to recognize the feelings of others, this behavior can be categorized as a lack of empathy, something common to those who struggle with NPD.
Gender-affirming care has made its patients completely dependent on the opinions of others, causing them to be hurt by those who do not agree to be a part of their “treatment.” They have taken on an inability to ignore dissenting thought, and instead choose to label those dissenters as “transphobes.” They are unable to empathize with other sincerely held beliefs because they have been conditioned to see those beliefs as contrary to their “treatment.” They have come to see disagreement as an attack, not civil discourse.
Frequent Fantasies of Having or Deserving
In the case of gender ideology, the idea that a man can become a woman, or vice versa, is found to be fantastical thinking when checked by biological fact. Gender-affirming care inserts itself between the fact and the fantasy, allowing its patients to believe that their desires, though scientifically inaccurate, deserve a certain societal response.
Consider California’s assembly bill 1955 which bars school districts from requiring that parents be informed of their child’s so-called gender transition. This blocks parents from threatening the gender ideology cycle and entrusts the duty of gender affirmation to the state.
Or think of Peter Vlaming, a high school French teacher who was fired for refusing to use male pronouns to refer to a female student. Though Vlaming did everything within his good conscience to accommodate his student, school administrators deemed his efforts insufficient and later terminated him.
These stories, and many more like them, exemplify not only a fantasy of attaining a new gender but also of deserving a positive reaction to that “transition.” As seen here, this reaction includes taking over the rearing of our children and defining what is religiously acceptable.
However, no matter how hard a person tries with harmful drugs, irreversible surgeries, legal control over language itself, or even firing those who dissent, such desires remain a work of fiction and not reality.
Entitlement
When Adelia Cross was in 7th grade, she joined her middle school track team to compete in throwing events. However, that same year, a biological male fantasizing as female joined Cross’ team, forcing her and her teammates to compete against and use the same locker room as him.
Not only was Cross constantly losing to her male competitor due to his natural strength, but she was also being bullied and sexually harassed by him. When she spoke up, her school did nothing to help her.
This is a classic example of entitlement, the unreasonable expectation of favorable treatment. As seen in Cross’ story, gender-affirming care has allowed so-called transgender persons to feel as though they can have free reign of spaces and events that were created to uphold biological sacredness. Cross’ male competitor was so confident in his entitlement, that he even resorted to harassment and bullying. He knew that society would do nothing because gender-affirming care mandates that they do nothing.
Instilling Mental Illness in the Name of Mental Health
Rather than addressing mental health concerns, gender-affirming care proliferates another type of mental illness, NPD, in society. It encourages so-called transgender persons to feel reliant on the opinions of others for their validation. Such “care” misleads struggling men and women into adding credence to fantasy via extrinsic acceptance, putting the rest of society under duress to support their delusions.
At its core, this ideology reduces the ability of transgender individuals to see their intrinsic value. Gender-affirming care mandates that its “patients” be offended at the notion that they are enough.
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