{"id":252,"date":"2024-05-07T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/?p=252"},"modified":"2024-05-07T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:44:24","slug":"trans-people-lead-horrible-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/2024\/05\/07\/trans-people-lead-horrible-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans People Lead Horrible Lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DHS Advisor says Transgender People Lead Horrible Lives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From an article in Metro Weekly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior adviser to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) apparently made numerous anti-LGBTQ statements on a right-wing radio show during the 2016 election, including saying transgender people lead \u201ca horrible existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Wuco, a senior White House adviser to the DHS, made the comments on The Reality Check, Media Matters reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to host Charles Butler, who used \u201cfaggots\u201d twice during Wuco\u2019s appearances and called President Barack Obama an \u201cimmoral bastard,\u201d Wuco said that societies with \u201cno moral center\u201d have \u201csuffered greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Butler slammed transgender people, saying \u201cthese people are sick\u2026. transgenders are sick people,\u201d Wuco responded by calling it a \u201cmalady,\u201d adding, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to spend five minutes inside their heads,\u201d and calling it a \u201chorrible existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Transgender Girls are BORN Different<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wuso has no clue what it is to be transgender. Transgender women and men are born that way. A transgender girl looks mostly like a boy between the legs, but CT scans of transgender girls’ brains look more like female brains. They behave more like girls too. As babies, they are quieter, as toddlers, they don’t push each other and fight over toys as much. Before elementary school, they will often prefer to play with girls than boys when given the choice. Even if they don’t have dolls, they are more likely to treat stuffed animals like babies, holding them, cuddling them, and even singing to them and telling stories. They don’t like to roughhouse, preferring to color, to play games of cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Extreme Bullying<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In elementary school, they don’t fit in with the other boys. They are regularly bullied, and often very violently, and often by large groups of boys because they don’t have the instincts to fight back. Imagine going to school every day, KNOWING that you’ll be punched, kicked, and beaten for an hour a day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Transgender girls often struggle with symptoms similar to PTSD, nightmares, inability to sleep, fear, anxiety, and depression. For many, the stress and internal injuries can result in severe medical problems including asthma attacks more frequently, diabetes, kidney and liver problems, spinal injuries, hospitalizations, and more time missed due to infections and viruses due to a weakened immune system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going UNDERCOVER<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By the time they are 6 or 7 years old, transgender girls know that they are “a girl inside”. Unfortunately, too often, when they try to tell parents, they are ignored, dismissed, or shamed. They are forced into gender conformity. They are forced to try to be something that they are not. They are FORCED TO BE DISHONEST because when they tell the truth, they get punished for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many transgender girls living as boys will isolate, reading lots of books, trying to make sense of the world that seems hostile. They see patterns, recognize things others ignore. In many civilizations, transgender girls were revered for their wisdom and knowledge, as Shamen, Oracles, Seers, prophets, and healers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Puberty Poisoning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Puberty is a hard time for transgender girls. They learn about the male puberty changes with loathing and dread. Many will even try to castrate themselves. Boiling water, tied with string, even crushing, or spreading legs to be kicked down there. Some have even tried cutting themselves. They may even ask to be castrated. The standard practice today is chemical castration with T-blockers such as Spironolactone. This is easily reversed if the child chooses to be a boy, which rarely happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, most of those forced to go through male puberty experience it as horrible, like being forced to turn into an angry hairy beast, permanently trapped in a body they hate, for the rest of their lives. For many, the only permanent solution to this permanent problem seems to be suicide. Often they will attempt suicide discretely, accidental drug overdose, traffic accident, getting beat up and not curling up to protect internal organs, poison, or combinations of booze, street drugs, prescription drugs, and over the counter drugs. Other times, they just step in front of a truck. Nearly half of all transgender people have ATTEMPTED SUICIDE at least once. Even more of them have ideated and planned, but not implemented. Nearly all attempts are BEFORE TRANSITIONING.  About a third of those who implement will eventually succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Early Transition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The transgender\u00a0transition is a long and often scary process. Cross-dressing in private, carefully planned outings, such a drive around the block, walking around a block in a different neighborhood, going to an event, tiny milestones to most, but huge to someone trying to overcome years of trauma, repression, and fear. For several months, outings are carefully planned to avoid multiple-stall bathrooms. WPATH standards of care recommend 6 months to a year before starting hormones, starting with chemical castration and then adding estrogen. By the time a transgender woman is living full-time as a female, she has visible breasts, can’t have erections, and can’t ejaculate. If their voice hasn’t changed, she will look and act like any other woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most transgender women avoid locker rooms and showers until they are full-time for a while, and even then, they are most likely to seek privacy. The last thing a transsexual woman wants is for someone to see what’s between her legs in a shower, locker room, or bathroom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DHS Advisor says Transgender People Lead Horrible Lives From an article in Metro Weekly A senior adviser to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) apparently made numerous anti-LGBTQ statements on a right-wing radio show during the 2016 election, including saying transgender people lead \u201ca horrible existence.\u201d Frank Wuco, a senior White House adviser to the DHS, made the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,11,10,13],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transgender-issues","tag-bullying","tag-conversion-therapy","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-biology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deborah-ballard.com\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}