@Anonymous #4756
Ah, I really enjoyed reading this!
>Somatoparaphrenia, BIID, apotemnophilia
All of these are distinct disorders, but I’ll agree with you that each of them are very closely related and, without extensive testing, can be proposed diagnosises all one in the same.
>Apotemnophilia
I find this to be the most interesting out of the group; specifically because it is characterized by an irrational obsession to remove a body part, which is seemingly what we’re dealing with in the overwhelming majority of cases concerning transgenderism. However, I believe that it falls short given the disorder does not specifically fixate on one’s own limbs or body parts, and doesn’t explain the extensively widespread (in comparison to normal case rates) common fixation specifically with the penis. Entertaining the hypothesis that it is apotemnophilia, and given it’s common link to structural abnormalities within the brain, we would have to assume natural development, and in which case there would be an identifiable root cause.
If this was absolutely the case, there would need to be a rise in rapid changes at early developmental stages that are related to something chemical. It’s the only thing which would explain common outcomes across a wide and diverse group; especially one that isn’t concentrated into a single location or area.
Which is why I believe there’s an extremely small chance that this is the case. There’s far too many variables to explain the constant one we’re observing.
>Somatoparaphrenia
I believe this has even less potential to be our answer, because this diagnosis is predominantly characterized by the left side of your torso being the fixated area, with the left arm typically being the body part associated with removal. While it is theoretically possible the penis could be a target of fixation, I have not heard of a case where it is. The possible factors that would lead up to this, on a large scale, are much the same as the previous suggestion and equally unlikely if not more so.
>BIID
This seems to me the most-likely diagnosis out of the three. It does not have to be typically associated with any single body part, by paralysis is apparently a very characteristic factor in a few cases.
I would be hard-pressed to put BOTH types, spinal cord and not, into the same disorder but the overall focus is the individual desires to fix their body because it does not feel complete with the fixated part being attached or operable.
While extensive testing is needed to truly determine if transgenderism has determinable physical causes or not, my current hypothesis is that it’s widespread hysteria, induced by communal factors, while playing on the neglected individual. It’s a coping tool.
My questions to dig deeper would be:
Why do we not see transgenderism in communities and societies where children largely connect with their families prior to adulthood? Why do places like Japan have incredibly low rates of transgenderism?
Why is communism and other concepts that favor a vulnerable community, one that speaks greatly of constant fun and love, so favored among transexuals?
Why do transsexuals believe society must accept them when they are, by their declared nature, unable to accept themselves?
Why is pedophilia and transgenderism, and the overall manipulation of children, so tightly and closely knit by statistics? Why do they employ the same overall tactics to justify manipulating and scarring children mentally that religion employs?
If transgenderism is natural, why do we not see any credible mention of it before the time of Dr. John Money? Are we to just assume a new type of individual, one that is both sexually and mentally forgone compared to our current male and female, developed in an extremely short time?
My personal belief is that it is neither natural nor healthy. Even if the individual is happy, I would not designate them healthy. Much like I cannot designate a victim of Stockholm Syndrome healthy despite them being happy in their abusers arms; I cannot say, with honesty and devotion to mankind and the betterment of the world in totality, that these people are healthy.
If my overall hypothesis is found to be correct, I believe I would call it a ‘new’ syndrome, which is characterized by great neglect as a child, and seeking of close community and belonging as an adult. I believe transgenderism is only one facet that is possible in this overall affliction. It appears to me that, once set in, a revision is impossible until a realization is undeniable, and rational thought returns to conflict with their warped reality.
My suggested prescription:
A single 10mm projectile administered at high velocity through both hemispheres of the cranium. Counciling. A focus on the self, and not on transgenderism.