You conclude: “A poisonous, and arguably symbiotic, relationship between medicine and ideology is the main cause of what is happening and this makes it a full scale tragedy of our times.”
It is arguable that the entire project of medical science functions as a kind of ideological substrate to society, which lays down and reproduces a number of very deeply held assumptions about everything from the way human bodies work to how best to know this. Most prominently perhaps, the old Cartesian division of mind and body: medical science simply does not accommodate the effects of mind because of its methodological commitment to mechanistic theories of matter and to so called “evidence based” studies.
There is clearly much to unpack here, but it cannot be denied that the great assemblage of medical science, with the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and state institutions of social care hold a great deal of power over almost every human life on the planet. It is furthermore taken for granted that this is a good thing, that the imperative to do no harm somehow diffuses the whole institutional apparatus and determines how it all works, that doctors would never do anything to harm a patient.
Unfortunately, despite their good intentions, this is in fact impossible. Every drug available has so called side effects. This phrase only makes sense on the assumption that of all the effects of a drug, only certain of these are desired. Sometimes the same drug is used for different conditions, so that the same effects will be desired for some but not for others.
The most obvious example of this phenomenon from my own experience (which is also of vital importance in the current context) is the use of hormone suppressing medication both in the management of prostate cancer and in the first stages of transitioning so called trans children. In the first case I can attest without any fear of contradiction that long term use of these drugs leads to destruction of internal temperature regulation, libido, emotional stability, motivational control, sexual function and mental precision. They also leech minerals from bones, which can lead to compression fractures in vertebrae, slipped discs and cracked ribs.
These are of course listed in the literature that comes with the drugs, but because they also suppress the spread of prostrate cancer, they are tolerated, however reluctantly by chaps like me who would prefer to squeeze as much out of life as possible.
And yet in the TRA propaganda playbook these drugs are presented as magical, totally harmless sweeties that will enable a young person, who feels (or more precisely, has been led to believe) they are in the “wrong body”, to lead an authentic life as their correct gendered soul.
There is clearly something not quite right going on here.
My project is the use of classical poetry to comment on the zigs and zags of the gender-identity formation process. OPUS GENERIS is a suite of five poems running the gamus from CYBELE AND ATTIS (a representation of the struggle to escape from oneness with the mother, to Daphne & Apollo, Apollo turning from loving boys to loving girls.
I've been doing YT videos on various subjects, Pygmalion with Todd Nickerson, Plato's Phaedros in Greek, reading the 3/5 protest of Mr. Younger at UNT through the lens of Cybele and Attis, criticizing mrgirl for not "owning" is pedo-lust and pedo-shame, etc. Would love to do an interview with you on YOUR ideas about the gender-identity formation process. Please forgive the UD entry for not being a complete picture of the gender-identity formation process . . . you only get a frew hundred characters to make your entry! But the little lexical item seems to be meeting a need . . . so perhaps it will prosper.
You conclude: “A poisonous, and arguably symbiotic, relationship between medicine and ideology is the main cause of what is happening and this makes it a full scale tragedy of our times.”
It is arguable that the entire project of medical science functions as a kind of ideological substrate to society, which lays down and reproduces a number of very deeply held assumptions about everything from the way human bodies work to how best to know this. Most prominently perhaps, the old Cartesian division of mind and body: medical science simply does not accommodate the effects of mind because of its methodological commitment to mechanistic theories of matter and to so called “evidence based” studies.
There is clearly much to unpack here, but it cannot be denied that the great assemblage of medical science, with the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and state institutions of social care hold a great deal of power over almost every human life on the planet. It is furthermore taken for granted that this is a good thing, that the imperative to do no harm somehow diffuses the whole institutional apparatus and determines how it all works, that doctors would never do anything to harm a patient.
Unfortunately, despite their good intentions, this is in fact impossible. Every drug available has so called side effects. This phrase only makes sense on the assumption that of all the effects of a drug, only certain of these are desired. Sometimes the same drug is used for different conditions, so that the same effects will be desired for some but not for others.
The most obvious example of this phenomenon from my own experience (which is also of vital importance in the current context) is the use of hormone suppressing medication both in the management of prostate cancer and in the first stages of transitioning so called trans children. In the first case I can attest without any fear of contradiction that long term use of these drugs leads to destruction of internal temperature regulation, libido, emotional stability, motivational control, sexual function and mental precision. They also leech minerals from bones, which can lead to compression fractures in vertebrae, slipped discs and cracked ribs.
These are of course listed in the literature that comes with the drugs, but because they also suppress the spread of prostrate cancer, they are tolerated, however reluctantly by chaps like me who would prefer to squeeze as much out of life as possible.
And yet in the TRA propaganda playbook these drugs are presented as magical, totally harmless sweeties that will enable a young person, who feels (or more precisely, has been led to believe) they are in the “wrong body”, to lead an authentic life as their correct gendered soul.
There is clearly something not quite right going on here.
Hi Lorelei,
I'm Mark Miner the philological villain who wrote the UD entry on TBP
mrminer071166@yahoo.com
My project is the use of classical poetry to comment on the zigs and zags of the gender-identity formation process. OPUS GENERIS is a suite of five poems running the gamus from CYBELE AND ATTIS (a representation of the struggle to escape from oneness with the mother, to Daphne & Apollo, Apollo turning from loving boys to loving girls.
I've been doing YT videos on various subjects, Pygmalion with Todd Nickerson, Plato's Phaedros in Greek, reading the 3/5 protest of Mr. Younger at UNT through the lens of Cybele and Attis, criticizing mrgirl for not "owning" is pedo-lust and pedo-shame, etc. Would love to do an interview with you on YOUR ideas about the gender-identity formation process. Please forgive the UD entry for not being a complete picture of the gender-identity formation process . . . you only get a frew hundred characters to make your entry! But the little lexical item seems to be meeting a need . . . so perhaps it will prosper.
---Mark Miner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-j2X5rFRk&t=1326s