Humoring delusions

Trigger warning, there’s a lot to unpack here and it’s ugly. So if your delicate sensibilities are offended by hard truths turn the page.

Last week 28-year-old Audrey Hale shot her way into a private Christian school in Nashville and murdered three children and three adults. Nashville police responded heroically and Hale is dead.

Hale was trans. It is not clear if she had begun transitioning with hormones yet but she was reportedly being treated for unspecified psychological issues so it seems likely she was on psychoactive meds – a common thread that runs through mass shootings nobody wants to talk about.

This happened just days after Democrat activist Cenk Uygur urged trans people to arm themselves and just before a planned demonstration “Trans Day of Vengeance,” just cancelled for fear of “credible threats of violence.”
And perhaps because it wouldn’t be in the best of taste? Like that T-shirt with a bunch of rifles that says, “Trans rights … or else.”

And it turns out the last four mass shootings were by trans or “non-binary” people, though there is some suspicion at least one of them may be shamming to get themselves better accommodations.

Because we live in a society in which rapists can get themselves sent to women’s prisons by claiming to be trans.

Now read very closely because what I’m about to say is going to be willfully misrepresented.

Gender dysphoria is a mental illness and is still recognized as such in the DSM. There is no necessary connection with violent behavior, but such delusions do tend to come in clusters.

As delusions go it’s not even the most extreme. I highly recommend neurologist Oliver Sachs fascinating book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat.”

It contains many accounts of neurological conditions such as the man who did indeed mistake his wife for a hat and tried to hang her up on the coat tree in his office.

There’s a condition whereby a blind person is convinced they are sighted. Their brain builds a picture in their head of the environment around them based on memory and other sensory cues. And when they trip over an ottoman that “isn’t there” they tend to freak out.

I once knew a psychiatrist who told me of a hospital patient who had become convinced that all the evil in his body was concentrated in two fingers – which he was chewing off. After trying restraints and painting them with foul tasting stuff they finally gave in and took him to surgery. (They were ruined anyway.)

He went back to work, but I have no idea what happened afterwards.

During the brief time I worked as a psych aid in a mental hospital they told us the cardinal rule of dealing with patients is, DON’T HUMOR THEIR DELUSIONS. Ask any nurse they’ll tell you they were told the same on psych ward rotations.
So here is a synopsis of what I’ve said in discussions with trans people.

If you are an adult and choose to go this route, that’s your choice in the land of the free. But you will never become a real woman (man), you will never have normal sexual functioning, never become a parent, and no normal straight man (woman) will want to have sex with you.

“Trans rights” is nonsense. You have all the rights of your fellow citizens. What you demand is for us to humor your delusion.

Transitioning children is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy and should be treated as such.

So call me a bigot, I’ve said my piece but I’m not your shrink.