jonniboi1421.bsky.social
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My poetry page. Got suspended on twitter (same account name) so I came here - btw, poetry insta: https://www.instagram.com/20fresh_breeze00/
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Please don't give up and keep living. Keep fighting.
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I don't want trans children and other young people thinking it's suicidally over for them due to trans care/transition bans because it so is not! You will find people who are there for you, who will help you in your life and in your transition, both socially and medically.
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I wanna end off on a positive note though: The spirit of what OP means is entirely correct: we should amplify messages of optimism and love despite it all, because that's the only way we're gonna get through this, besides prayer.
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And then what will we say if social transition is banned? "You don't have to transition socially to be trans"? We already know that too, it's largely depressing and traumatic. Why is that something needed to be said?
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So saying "you don't have to transition medically to be loved" - while definitely true, and we need to amplify that in times like this - is almost an empty platitude and honestly surrendering to what transphobes want, including moving the needle to bans on social transition as well.
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Cisgender people have ESPECIALLY done the whole rigamarole about how we don't need HRT/surgery to transition, we already know that. For most of trans history they've been saying that to *prevent us from medically transitioning*.
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The thing is, we're already doing the former. We've been doing and saying that for decades - heck, millennia! Both trans and cis people have known and trans people have done the whole social w/o medical transition, had families & friends that stood with them, where there was/is mutual care, etc.
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We shouldn't be saying that trans people can still exist and be happy at the expense of the very real mental and physical harm that comes with not being able to transition.
We also shouldn't be scaring other transgender people into thinking that our lives are over due to trans care bans.
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Addendum: Like I’ve been tired since ~2:30 am and I’m JUST NOW going to bed. Eff my life
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Wait so like when do y'all see an acceptable time to wear makeup, like at some party/function? (idk where "y'all" or "here" I'm even referring to)
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There’s little way for a nonbinary person to be properly stealth unless we do a binary transition, which would make some of us just as dysphoric as pre-transition. I also *like* being transgender and would like to have a visibly transsexual body. I don’t want to hide who I am.
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Yeah another big reason why this stealth stuff is harmful is that nonbinary people are effectively ostracized from not just trans healthcare, but being transgender all together.
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Up close, the right. Further back, the left
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"People who believe in god or magic are dangerously delusional"
Not according to the medical definition of the word "delusional"
"you're psychotic"
Defending possibly or even definitively bad people does not fall under the definition of "psychotic" you possibly chose to cite
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Constant, widespread mental/emotional instability doesn't seem beneficial to building the various civilizations we know and don't know about.
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Religious and spiritual people aren't inherently mentally nor emotionally unstable, and I don't think it should take much evidence to prove that, considering the majority of humanity is and has been some form of religious/spiritual throughout our history.
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I will note that this definition is class as "sometimes offensive" and has a blurb that says "Note: The nontechnical use of psychotic is increasingly viewed as a trivialization of mental illness." which doesn't seem to go in line with your stance on saving children.
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Addendum: Oh I think I found where you got the definition of "psychotic" from:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...
You're using the nonmedical - or I guess nontechnical - definition.
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Defining words isn't splitting hairs, especially when you *still* have not clarified how you're using the word "psychotic"
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“YOU are psychotic for pretending that delusions are not delusions”
Oooooh ok.
In that case, you’re still wrong by the very definitions of both the words “psychotic” and “delusion”. You’re using the words outside of both their medical and colloquial definitions
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“or a delusion"
This 2nd part is you claiming people can pretend to be deluded lol. “pretending such a harmful delusion [believing in god] is not…a delusion”
So either way, your argument implies that religious and spiritual people aren’t actually deluded.
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"pretending such a harmful delusion [believing in god] is not actually harmful”
In order to pretend something isn’t harmful, you’d have to not be deluded. Deluded people don’t believe they’re causing undue harm, or even being harmful at all.
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You haven’t answered how someone can pretend to be delusional or psychotic
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None of this answers my question
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You also have yet to clarify how you’re using the word “psychotic”: medically or colloquially?
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I didn’t say anything about religion being good or bad though. This you making another logical fallacy known as a strawman.
Also I’m not missing the point. You’ve been claim that religious and spiritual people are delusional and now psychotic despite not providing evidence to prove such.
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How does one pretend delusion or psychosis? Regardless, the definition you quoted - with no source btw - doesn’t match your personal definition
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No you really did just commit the logical fallacy known as whataboutism
www.britannica.com/topic/whatab...
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This is whataboutism
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This isn’t the definition of “psychotic”, neither medically nor colloquially
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“that can have really serious consequences like involuntary hospitalization or loss of children.”
The latter - loss of children - has literally happened to the Muslim immigrant communities in several European countries during the refugee crisis, a notable one I remember being in the Netherlands
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Also are you using the word “psychotic” in a medical or colloquial sense?
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“There is not, nor has there ever been, a single bit of evidence for any god or magic”
Not empirically, sure. I’m not asking for empiricism though. I’m asking how you *know* something can be *definitely false* if empiricism cannot be used to verify its (non)existence.
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“I care that it does not align with reality.”
This begs the question: what is reality? You - at the least - implicitly define “reality” as “whatever can be empirically proven”, correct? If so, how do you know that something that isn’t/can’t be empirically proven is definitely false?
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“Am I forbidden from using the word "delusion" outside of DSM context?”
Considering that the word is largely used in a medical context, kinda yeah. Like sure it can be used colloquially, but the common interpretation is medical.
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""Supernatural" refers to things that are not real."
Actually this is what the word "supernatural" means:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
""Natural" refers to things we can observe in reality."
True, but stuff we can't observe does not necessarily mean it doesn't exist.
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Also these screenshots, from the pdf
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And here's a pdf of his paper about religiosity/spirituality and delusion:
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...
Notice the definition of the word "delusion": "A delusion is a false, unshakeable idea or belief, which is out of keeping with the patient’s educational, cultural and social background"
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Another source: Psychiatrist Professor Andrew Sims - here's an about section of him: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/members/your...
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In addition, cultural and religious background must be taken into account when considering whether beliefs are delusional."
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For example, in some religious ceremonies, an individual may report hearing voices, but these do not generally persist and are not perceived as abnormal by most members of the individual's community...
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"It is important to distinguish symptoms of brief psychotic disorder from culturally sanctioned response patterns...
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"An individual's cultural and religious background must be taken into account in evaluating
the possible presence of delusional disorder."
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