A warrior. What an interesting term. The word spoken invokes feelings of valiance and bravery, such as a night in battle-scared armor leading his troops into the heart of battle, or a selfless soldier jumping on a grenade to save his men who are bogged down in the trenches. So how ironic is it that, as of late, we have used the word to describe an array of bong-wielding dildo activists who lack any semblance of common sense? It wasn't long ago that the side known for ignoring science was the religious right, but as of lately the radical left has been becoming worse and worse. In the same way that the bible-thumping conservatives would refuse to consider the positive effects of marijuana, and the ecological disaster that is still, to this day brewing, the far left refuses to use a lens of science and empiricism to look at a topic that doesn't fit their narrative. For example, the whole transgender movement.

My problem with the whole movement, per se, isn't people who identify as the opposite sex than that they were born as. It really isn't even people who identify as "agender" or other snowflake genders. Its when, while they may say they identify as one thing, they really identify as trans at the end of the day, almost as if they are just transitioning to support a movement. You know who I'm talking about, the people that make sure that you know how problematic they think everything is and how having a conversation with them will turn south in an instant the second that you say something that could be deemed as offensive. I know it sounds like I'm profiling here, but I have met a LOT of trans-folk with this attitude.

What it really is, and I say this with NO contempt for people identifying as the opposite sex, is a mental illness. Its just a classic case of body dysphoria that worries about looking one way instead of the other. The only difference is that when someone transitions genders its only hurting them in a social manner, whereas anorexia can kill you. Nobody wants to tell these people that what they are experiencing ISN'T normal, and that they should get help.

Whatever gender you are SHOULDN'T matter to you in any way. Nothing really should be tied to gender in the first place. Are you a man who likes men? That doesn't make you a woman, it just makes you a gay man. Are you a girl who likes sports, motorcycles, and guns? That doesn't mean that you are intrinsically a man on the inside, it just means that you like those things. Now, I know that very very few people transition because of these things, the point I am trying to make here is that your sex really shouldn't have a right to tell you to do anything or act a certain way outside of its respective role in reproduction should you chose to partake in that.

Society is moving in a way that treats mental illness in a dangerously enabling way. Look at the teen suicide epidemic that the media has been bolstering up since the 90s. Bullying hasn't gotten any worse since the beginning of man. Kids (And many adults too, for the matter.) calling each other mean names isn't the reason why other kids are killing themselves. The reason kids kill themselves is because they hate themselves, and nobody wants to admit it. If suicide was caused by external forces, we wouldn't be hearing about house wives with perfectly happy lives killing themselves, leaving their family behind. The same thing goes for transgender individuals. We keep telling them that transitioning will solve all of life's problems, and that if they just take the jump they will start to feel better, but all that happens is that they hate themselves even more as the imaginary goal that they invented in their head keeps getting more and more unreachable. While there are of course, cases when trans individuals could be described as happy after they transition, the vast majority of the time they still hate themselves, and still wished that they were dead. I know this because I have friends who are trans, who are experiencing exactly what I am describing. The depression rate among the transgender community is sky high, and its a travesty.

The big problem is that the left would rather virtue signal and sing the tired song of love and acceptance without thinking about the damage that they really might be doing. The focus on the transgender movement should be around stopping body dysphoria, not enabling it. No matter how smoothly a transition can go, a vast majority of people will STILL hate themselves and want to crawl out of their own skin. Now, I say that if transitioning actually helps somebody, then so be it. Personally, I will use all of your pronouns (As long as they are he/she), and respect you as the human being you are. My point isn't that Transgender people are horrifying freaks, as some people sadly believe, its that we shouldn't be telling people, especially our youths, that being trans is perfectly normal and healthy, because its not. It is a symptom of a mental illness, and should be looked at as a medical problem. The reason that I say this is because it truly saddens me how the suicide attempt rate can be as high as 40% in some studies, and I don't want to see so many people ending their lives over trying to reach some romanticized ideal that they will never reach.