RE: Justice Thomas's question

( StrawberryCough )
This is all so dystopian, it's deeply disorienting. Radfems cheering on conservative justices, and me totally agreeing.

( Chronicity )
I’m welcoming the deprogramming I’m currently experiencing. If you’re able to acknowledge someone’s good points regardless of their political affiliation or personality type, that means you are probably an independent thinker.

It’s a much better way to be.

( Tq231442 )
Hitler himself could come back to life and say puberty blockers are wrong and I'd agree. Social media has turned people partisan to an astoundingly stupid degree. [...]

( babygrandpiano )
I think Alito's question was also brilliant. If gender is immutable then there is no such thing as transgender. If gender isn't immutable then it's not a protected status.

( wildclovr )
If he had asked a question like that on most of reddit or facebook, he would have been booted from the platform. And maybe had some kind of angry mob after him.

But, we're at the U.S. Supreme Court now and things just don't function the same there as they do online.

( OneStarWolf )
This. Because it can be a temporary mental illness and/or a paraphilia.

In girls/women, transgenderism seems to manifest more like anorexia or cutting, a self harm or defensive mechanism in reaction to emotional trauma, abuse, and sense of self worth. In boys/men, it’s more a paraphilia and fetish through porn and autogynephilia, but can also be self-worth reaction in homophobic gay males.

Transgender status is also very commonly used by male predators as a disguise choice, to both game the system for sympathy and use for other benefits (access to women and children, lesser prison time, access to women’s spaces/benefits).

These are all varying obsessions that can be damaging but also stopped and people can desist and move on from it in their lives, assuming the resulting self-harm isn’t too devastating for them to accept.

So yes, being “trans” is hugely variable and not close at all to being an immutable status. It’s a changing state of mind, and can be a fad, a fetish, a mode of self harm, a disguise, and it can differ greatly in how and why it presents in males vs females while simultaneously being cormorbid with many other mental problems and fetishes.