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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      This is why it's so fucking frustrating that the Trans Discourse still revolves around "We need to distinguish between people with 'genuine dysphoria' from people who just want to transition" WANTING TO TRANSITION IS THE DEFINITION OF DYSPHORIA IT'S THE SAME THING

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      The existence of the desire IS ITSELF A "SIGN OF DISTRESS" If you don't want to be a girl anymore and you do want to be a boy, that's what dysphoria is, ultimately That's the actual core definition

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      This shit of wanting to actually see the crying and the snot and the vomit and the blood and the shaking and the sobbing and the pain is just voyeuristic sadism Shut the fuck up and write the prescription you fucking sick piece of shit

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      The people who are really into gatekeeping will try to pick this apart "You don't mean *every* form of 'wanting' transition is dysphoria do you? What if you just want to transition to join the 19th-century Army? What if you're being paid to do it by an eccentric billionaire?"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      And the answer, of course, is that people who traffic in abstract hypothetical generalizing thought experiments deserve a concrete actual specific physical fist in the mouth

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      The serious definition of dysphoria is as simple as the definition of desire Do you feel there's something wrong in your life, whether you can put a name to it, that transition can fix Do you see that as a better life you desire and will you make a plan of action to achieve it

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      If something made you go to the office and ask for hormones in the first place then that "something", however big or small it is, however many "social factors" went into it, is by definition dysphoria The test is in wanting it enough to do it, there don't need to be more tests

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      To continue this metaphor, I guess, one thing about touching a hot stove is if you really do just *brush* the stove and jerk back immediately you indeed don't feel much pain at all Someone who is allowed to freely avoid negative stimuli generally doesn't feel much pain

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      You know, just like comfortable well-fed people have a *drive* to eat food and drink water but they don't really know what "hunger" and "thirst" are Not really, only kinda sorta, in fleeting moments before the microwave is done with their nachos

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      The main reason you feel actual *pain* is when you brush against the hot stove, you *try* to pull your hand back, *and someone holds your hand there and won't let you move it*

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

      Just like the Buddhist concepts of dukkha/tanha/chanda in and of themselves are benign A life of getting hungry, making sandwiches and then eating them isn't a bad life at all, it doesn't contain any of what we think of as "negative emotions"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          All that ugly dark stuff? That actually constitutes "suffering"? The rage, the resentment, the fear, the betrayal, the grief? That's what happens when the fridge is empty

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          There is a very real sense in which dysphoria to some degree might be inevitable (to the extent that transness is biological, a "born in the wrong body" narrative) but to a huge extent is social The problem isn't with the person, the problem is with society

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          It's with the parents or the teachers or the doctors or the Jesse Singals who really want to know "Okay, is the stove hot, or did you just kinda move your hand for the sake of moving it?" and then hold your hand in place and watch your face to see if you cry

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          I don't believe that it's plausible Jesse Thorn's daughter has NEVER experienced what some chud like Singal thinks of as "real dysphoria", but I believe it probably only happened after she entered school and had to deal with a transphobic society

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          And I believe that on the off chance she really didn't "experience dysphoria" in the sense Singal means -- she's never felt that overpowering sense of wrongness like your hand being stuck on a hot stove and not being allowed to lift it -- then that's to be fucking celebrated

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          Holy shit, a set of parents whose trans kid *never* truly felt dysphoric because as soon as she said "I'm a girl" she was listened to and believed? Someone jerked their hand back from the stove so fast it didn't even leave a scar? That's a goddamn Christmas miracle

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          And some fucking creep, some fucking sadist like Dusty Springroll here, thinking he's a hero for holding your hand on the stove "until you know for sure if it's really hot"

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          Maybe if you keep your hand there long enough you'll learn the bullshit twisted Tough Guy version of Buddhism where you find out that heat and cold are "illusions" and pain can be ignored and be a tough strong hardened adult (with a maimed hand), like Paul Atreides in Dune

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 1

          Fuck him Fuck everyone who thinks like him Fuck everyone in this whole benighted world who has a way to make life easy and chooses to make it hard

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