WorldNetDaily editor David Kupelian has long hated transgender people for existing, and he spewed more hate at them again in an Oct. 15 column that begins by likening being transgender to a mental disorder like anorexia:
Now look into the mirror of people suffering from another condition, one wildly fawned over by today’s Democratic Party, popular culture, news and entertainment media, and even corporate PR departments, all hailing it as the latest civil rights movement – namely, being “transgender.”
“When I look in the mirror in the morning, before having shaved, it’s certainly a painful experience. The immediate reaction I get from my reflection is a feeling of very strong dissociation, accompanied by a kind of shock, confusion, or mental jarring. I have the strong, gut-level sensation that whoever is behind the mirror is not me,” says one “trans” individual.
“Transsexuals report feeling out of place, feeling awkward,” explains an online commentator, “and to get others to understand their inner struggle, transsexuals will ask: ‘If you’re a woman, imagine that every morning when you awaken and look in the mirror, you see a man. And if you’re a man, imagine that when you awaken, you see a woman in the mirror. That’s how a transsexual feels.'”
Whether it’s the anorexic or transgender individual staring intently into the mirror and seeing the exact opposite of reality, or millions of others in similar straits tormented from within with myriad obsessions, compulsions, addictions and delusions, people’s minds and emotions are – quite obviously – capable of lying to them, to the point of seriously disrupting their lives.
Kupelian then huffed that being transgender is not officially considered to be a mental disorder:
Ironically, the most extreme of all these conditions – at least in terms of its preferred treatment, which often involves the amputation of healthy body parts, and whose sufferers have one of the highest suicide-attempt rates of any population on earth – has for some strange reason been de-pathologized, that is, reclassified as perfectly normal.
Indeed, the 2013 renaming of “gender identity disorder” as “gender dysphoria,” thanks to relentless pressure from the powerful and epically intimidating LGBT lobby, means the condition itself is no longer considered abnormal or “disordered” at all, but only the anxiety (“dysphoria”) one may feel over it – anxiety that LGBT apologists blame almost entirely on public ignorance, intolerance and bigotry.
Yes, ignorance, intolerance and bigotry is exactly what Kupelian is displaying here. He then uncritically quoted a certain right-wing fave among transphobes like himself:
In fact, the former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Paul R. McHugh, M.D., confirms what virtually everyone knows, but cannot admit – that transgenderism is indeed a serious “mental disorder.”
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, McHugh, currently Hopkins’ distinguished service professor of psychiatry, cited a long-term Swedish study that followed transgendered people for up to 30 years, revealing that “beginning about ten years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost twenty-fold above the comparable non-transgender population.”
Note Kupelian’s appeal to authority by using McHugh’s middle initial and the “M.D.” appellation. As we’ve noted, McHugh’s anti-transgender views have been discredited.
Kupelian then moved on to the old right-wing “facts don’t care about your feelings” argument:
When our reality is determined by our feelings – whether we are uncomfortable with our “assigned” gender and feel “trapped in the wrong body,” or are starving and dangerously anorexic but believe we’re fat, or believe we are actually a wolf or an earthworm, or are so uncomfortable with one of our arms or legs we have it amputated, or we dislike being able to see, so we make ourselves blind, or deaf, or paraplegic (yes, all of these things actually happen in the “transabled community”) – truth, sanity, happiness, and ultimately civilization itself are all casualties.
Americans are in desperate need of some serious self-reflection and a radical course correction. Perhaps more than ever before, we need to take a good, long, hard, uncompromisingly honest look at ourselves in the mirror.
But what will we see staring back at us?
Will we – like the starving and emaciated anorexic girl who sees in the mirror only “disgusting fat,” or the man with transgender feelings who sees the reflection of a woman beckoning – continue to be drawn into a dark and delusional world where intense emotions of mysterious origin drown out obvious reality?
Or, will we finally be able to see past all the seductive illusions and catch a glimpse of our true selves once again – human beings, made by a great Creator God in His image – “male and female He created them”? Will we realize that this amazing life is ultimately a war zone, whose battlefields are every human mind, where forces of truth and deception, light and darkness, good and evil vie daily for our embrace and our loyalty?
Of course, Kupelian concluded by complaining that everyone is not a hardcore right-wing Christian like himself:
Finally – speaking of “future generations” – let us, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, fervently pray for this nation’s healing. And specifically, that today’s Americans – all of them – may come to recognize and embrace who they truly are called to be, adopted children of their Heavenly Father through the redeeming sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. And that they might live out the uniquely great inheritance of grace, forgiveness and love bequeathed to them by a merciful but righteous God.
Sadly, Kupelian thinks God has called him to spew lies and hate about people who don’t share his right-wing ideology. Does he think he’s healing the nation like that?