Report: Men get periods and give birth, ACLU declares

[nearlycatholic]

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise they became fools!
Romans 1:21-22

 

[Annie]

Yes, but apparently trying to investigate anything like this is the opposite of affirming, so … no investigations

 

[Thorolfr]

Having said that, a boy with those feelings still has the body of a boy. His body is his body, his correct body, not the “wrong” body. It isn’t disfigured or diseased. It is also not his “possession.” We are both our body and our psyche and our soul–his body is an integral part of him. The boy’s body ought to be accepted, even though it is difficult, because his body, too, is himself.

If there is a conflict between the brain and the rest of the body when it comes to gender, does that mean in your opinion that this person has a “diseased” or “wrong” brain?

 

[PetraG]

If there is a conflict between the brain and the rest of the body when it comes to gender, does that mean in your opinion that this person has a “diseased” or “wrong” brain?

I think when we experience distress at accepting any physical reality, whether that is our past or our body or whatever it is, we need help to learn how to accept it. That doesn’t mean that every cultural norm is a “physical reality.” It certainly doesn’t mean that someone who sees reality and feels distress is “wrong.” There are situations when the healthier person is going to weep even though the less mature person is going to shrug. Is the solution to convince the healthy person to make up a story that denies the thing that makes her weep?

People who have difficulty accepting “the way things are” don’t have “wrong” brains. They have difficult emotions. I don’t think the solution for someone experiencing difficult emotions about the way their body is or the past they’ve had or the way the world is would be to tell them to construct a persona that doesn’t have that part of themselves in it. If you have emotional difficulty accepting the ethnic group you belong to, you don’t invent a history and a new family story. You learn to cope with the truth about your family background. That might always be hard, but I have to think it is better to learn to cope with the truth even though it is hard than to substitute a made-up story that is less difficult.