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Deifying the demonized is another form of categorical self-binding.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
It wasn’t accurate to say she lost weight—it was more like she chased the weight off her body the way a farmer would chase a stray dog off his property. And like a suspicious farmer, Fawn still patrols the borders of her body, a shotgun propped in the crook of her elbow, ready to shoot any fattening food that tries to sneak back in.
Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
intersex persons, there are body, chromosomal, and/or anatomical abnormalities that are medically diagnosable and empirically verifiable. No such parallel exists in the case of transgenderism, because no definitive conclusion as to its cause has been determined; nor is it empirically verifiable—it’s a psychological construct.
Andrew T. Walker • God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity?
Naomi Torres-Mackie, the head of research at the Mental Health Coalition, encapsulated the trend this way: “All of a sudden, all of my adolescent patients think that they have [DID]. . . . And they don’t.”
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The Courage to Love,
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
Homosexuality as a “clinical entity” simply does not exist, she told her fellow psychologists, because the homosexual population is as varied as the heterosexual population.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
rooted in group Supremacy.