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One day we will wake to his obituary :-)
Trans People Are Not Mentally Ill; MAGA Are Just Mendacious Imbeciles
Evidence endures and care heals while MAGA’s propaganda collapses into its own bullshit.
The smoke over the Opernplatz rose like a spoken sentence and the city understood what the flames meant as books and patient files from Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science curled to ash. Knowledge was hauled into the street to be humiliated. Care was carried to the pyre to be punished. A small community stood and watched the door to its own future pushed shut while officials baptised the harm as hygiene. They looted the clinic and fed the fire and expanded the code. Theatre trained the crowd and paperwork completed the injury and lives that had asked only for ordinary safety were crushed beneath the false comfort of order.
The torches have become studio lights and the square has become a screen, yet the script remains unchanged. A counterfeit diagnosis is displayed and a panic is practised and a bill is drafted, and the chant hardens into a checklist that turns a hallway into a hazard and a door into a test. Somewhere a teenager times a bathroom break like a timetable because the wrong door can ruin the day. Somewhere a parent practises a name in a car park because love has been turned into paperwork. Somewhere a clinician opens a clinic at dawn and touches a panic button with the same hand that checks a pulse. From afar this is called protection. Up close it is fear in uniform, a ritual of humiliation written in polite ink.
This essay holds to medicine’s plain truth, that being transgender is not a mental illness, and it names the method that denies it with the clarity the moment requires. Spectacle becomes statute. Purity talk leads to closed rooms. Slogan turns to form to stamp. We will not be instructed by those who mistake volume for virtue. We will not confuse the pleasure of punishment with the practice of care. The line is drawn here and it will be defended.
1) Transgender Is Not a Mental Illness; MAGA Ignorance On the Other Hand…
Being transgender is not a mental illness, and that truth belongs to the bright plain of contemporary medicine rather than the funhouse where demagogues peddle fear to the faithful. Modern psychiatry separates who a person is from the suffering some endure when body, expectation, and law grind against the self, and ethical care concerns itself with easing that suffering while honouring the human being who carries it.
Gender dysphoria names a burden and not an identity. Treatment exists to relieve pain, to restore function, and to protect dignity. Healing cannot take root in soil salted by shame, which is why the profession has spent years scrubbing away the old taxonomies that confused stigma with science.
Clinicians now meet trans patients with the ordinary respect owed to every person. They offer social transition, counselling, and carefully indicated medical interventions chosen with informed consent, measured protocols, and vigilant follow up. The aim is humane and practical, to help a person live without torment in a body and a world that meet them without hostility, while keeping care within the steady guardrails that govern the rest of medicine.
To brand identity as a disorder is to misread the literature. It is to misunderstand the clinic. It is to misuse medical authority as a vestment for prejudice, turning ignorance into policy and superstition into headline. It is the old authoritarian trick that slaps a medical label on a moral panic and then pretends the panic is a cure.
MAGA mouthpieces persist because the lie pays in applause and grievance rather than in evidence or honour. They chant about mutilation and posture as saviours of children while ignoring the physicians who train, practise, publish, and care, the very people who say with steady clarity that these talking points are false and unsafe. They defame doctors as butchers and parents as dupes because slander travels faster than scholarship and panic is easier to monetise than compassion. What they offer is not medicine but tawdry theatre, a counterfeit diagnosis stapled to living bodies so that lawmakers may punish while pretending to heal.
In the end their ignorance parades itself like a brass band out of tune. The same voices that sneer at peer review and cannot tell a journal from a blog now strut as physicians to the nation, clutching slogans as if they were scalpels and carving nonsense into law with the swagger of amateurs who mistake noise for virtue. They mangle basic terms with the bravado of gamblers who think the rules of arithmetic are a conspiracy, and they deliver sentences so empty one almost admires the architectural purity of the void. It takes a special kind of foolishness to call compassion mutilation, to treat consensus as conspiracy, to wave away the training of surgeons and psychiatrists with a grunt and a meme and then to christen that performance moral courage. If the country sounds exhausted it is because we share a public square with men who bring a broom to brain surgery and preen when the patient bleeds, certain the mess proves their genius and certain that the applause of the equally uninformed is the same thing as truth, which it is not and never will be, no matter how loudly they chant into the night.