I Think I Have A Knack for This

I don’t guess I’ll be going into the advice business anytime soon.  My answer and Abby’s aren’t even close. In a nutshell mama has accepted the fact that her daughter has been in a long term lesbian relationship.  Now the two have decided to take it to the next level and daughter’s paramour is going to transition to being a man. Mama was invited to spend the weekend in order to practice proper pronoun usage.  She failed. The letter to Abby and Abby’s reply below, then mine.

Old Habits Die Hard During Woman’s Transition To A Man

My Reply:

Dear Margaret,

Your daughter’s paramour is suffering from gender dysphoria which until recently was considered to be a mental illness.  However, the psychological community objected to the metal illness label and it has been reclassified. This would be akin to Newton saying there is no gravity, the earth sucks. This is why psychology will never be a real science.

What is real science is genetics. Your daughter and her friend, each possess the XX chromosome.  That is science.  Unless and until science comes up with a way to knock a leg off of one of those X chromosomes Buffy is never going to become Biff. A second issue at play is a another mental illness commonly referred to as mass hysteria. It is defined as follows:

mass hysteria n.

  1. Spontaneous, en masse development of identical physical or emotional symptoms among a group of individuals, as in a classroom of schoolchildren.
  2. A socially contagious frenzy of irrational behavior in a group of people as a reaction to an event.

A group or combination of groups made up of , transgender, Gay rights, mass media, assorted con artists and social hucksters are demanding that established definitions and mores be ignored in favor of their convoluted views. You do not have to give up your rational views in order to satisfy the desires of an individual suffering from mental illness.  To keep peace in the family if Buffy wants to be Biff then by all means refer to Buffy as he or him but as a matter of courtesy, not compulsion.