Read some of the hate he spews. I reiterate my contention that transgenderism is a mental illness that is being used by the left to attack American values.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/us-news/robert-dorgan-idd-as-rhode-island-hockey-shooter/

"In a Feb. 15 response to a post calling openly trans US Rep. Sarah McBride a man, Dorgan chillingly wrote “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK"

Wow, sounds like some of the justifications we see over in the Israeli War section

I contend that politicians who failed to recognize a transgenderism is a mental illness, and who further are unable to tell the difference between men and women are equally responsible for this murder.

You can begin your but buts now. Don't forget the obligatory gun control remarks. Do you think that transgenders should be permitted to purchase firearms?

Dude was Pro Nazi and anti-semitic to. Guess those political positions involved mental illness don't they

I think your posts lack maturity

So when a cisgender person is violent does it follow that all cisgender people have a mental illness?

3 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

I think your posts lack maturity

I think your posts lack truth

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

So when a cisgender person is violent does it follow that all cisgender people have a mental illness?

I don't know what it's cisgender person is. I know that some men have engaged in violent conduct and so have some women. Some are mentally ill, some aren't. Transgender people are by definition mentally ill

5 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I think your posts lack truth

I don't know what it's cisgender person is. I know that some men have engaged in violent conduct and so have some women. Some are mentally ill, some aren't. Transgender people are by definition mentally ill

No — being transgender is not defined as a mental illness under modern medical and psychological standards.

🧠 Medical & Psychological Perspective

• World Health Organization (WHO): In 2019, the WHO removed “gender identity disorder” from its list of mental illnesses. Transgender identity is now classified under “gender incongruence” in the ICD-11, and it is considered a condition related to sexual health, not a psychiatric disorder.

• American Psychiatric Association (APA): The DSM-5 does not label being transgender as a mental illness. Instead, it recognizes “gender dysphoria” — the distress some people feel when their gender identity doesn’t align with their assigned sex at birth. The focus is on alleviating distress, not pathologizing identity.

• Consensus in Medicine: Major medical organizations (AMA, APA, WHO, WPATH) agree that transgender identity itself is not an illness. The emphasis is on supporting well-being and access to appropriate care.

⚖️ Key Distinction

• Transgender identity = not a disorder.

• Gender dysphoria = a diagnosable condition only when distress or impairment is present, and treatment focuses on reducing that distress (through counseling, social support, or medical transition).

🌍 Social & Legal Context

• Many countries now explicitly protect transgender people from discrimination, recognizing that stigma — not identity — is the real source of harm.

• Mislabeling transgender identity as “mental illness” is considered outdated and discriminatory by medical authorities.

Takeaway: Transgender people are not “by definition” mentally ill. Modern medicine recognizes their identity as a natural variation of human experience, with support focused on reducing distress and ensuring equal rights.

1 minute ago, JBChiangRai said:

No — being transgender is not defined as a mental illness under modern medical and psychological standards

So what? Who cares what they say. Better talk to that jury in New York that just slaps some doctors down for ignoring the mental illness aspect of transgenderism. A few more fat verdicts and all those associations are going to be changing their mind

Interesting that you don't know enough about the subject that you feel the need to use AI

3 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

So what? Who cares what they say. Better talk to that jury in New York that just slaps some doctors down for ignoring the mental illness aspect of transgenderism. A few more fat verdicts and all those associations are going to be changing their mind

Interesting that you don't know enough about the subject that you feel the need to use AI

I care what they say.

At least my post uses some form of intelligence!

9 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

No — being transgender is not defined as a mental illness under modern medical and psychological standards.

🧠 Medical & Psychological Perspective

• World Health Organization (WHO): In 2019, the WHO removed “gender identity disorder” from its list of mental illnesses. Transgender identity is now classified under “gender incongruence” in the ICD-11, and it is considered a condition related to sexual health, not a psychiatric disorder.

• American Psychiatric Association (APA): The DSM-5 does not label being transgender as a mental illness. Instead, it recognizes “gender dysphoria” — the distress some people feel when their gender identity doesn’t align with their assigned sex at birth. The focus is on alleviating distress, not pathologizing identity.

• Consensus in Medicine: Major medical organizations (AMA, APA, WHO, WPATH) agree that transgender identity itself is not an illness. The emphasis is on supporting well-being and access to appropriate care.

⚖️ Key Distinction

• Transgender identity = not a disorder.

• Gender dysphoria = a diagnosable condition only when distress or impairment is present, and treatment focuses on reducing that distress (through counseling, social support, or medical transition).

🌍 Social & Legal Context

• Many countries now explicitly protect transgender people from discrimination, recognizing that stigma — not identity — is the real source of harm.

• Mislabeling transgender identity as “mental illness” is considered outdated and discriminatory by medical authorities.

Takeaway: Transgender people are not “by definition” mentally ill. Modern medicine recognizes their identity as a natural variation of human experience, with support focused on reducing distress and ensuring equal rights.

Don't feed the troll, plus you're wasting tlme with intelligent comment.

6 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

I care what they say.

At least my post uses some form of intelligence!

Isn't that cute. A flame. Okay, do you think medical standards are consistently evolving? Do you think medical and psychiatric standards have ever been wrong?

1 minute ago, Artisi said:

Don't feed the troll, plus you're wasting tlme with intelligent comment.

The translation to that is you can't answer the questions raised in an intelligent and non-hateful matter

A man who says he doesn't know what cisgender means props himself up as a great expert on transgender issues.

Such intelligence! Willful ignorance actually.

25 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Read some of the hate he spews. I reiterate my contention that transgenderism is a mental illness that is being used by the left to attack American values.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/us-news/robert-dorgan-idd-as-rhode-island-hockey-shooter/

"In a Feb. 15 response to a post calling openly trans US Rep. Sarah McBride a man, Dorgan chillingly wrote “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK"

Wow, sounds like some of the justifications we see over in the Israeli War section

I contend that politicians who failed to recognize a transgenderism is a mental illness, and who further are unable to tell the difference between men and women are equally responsible for this murder.

You can begin your but buts now. Don't forget the obligatory gun control remarks. Do you think that transgenders should be permitted to purchase firearms?

Dude was Pro Nazi and anti-semitic to. Guess those political positions involved mental illness don't they

"In a Feb. 15 response to a post calling openly trans US Rep. Sarah McBride a man, Dorgan chillingly wrote “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK

I was wondering when this very threat would appear in the grand scheme of things, especially in where isolated individuals might interpret persistent hostility or misgendering as justification for extreme retaliation. There you have it. Nobody deserves to be murdered because they don't support /or agree with a person's ideas. Go seek mental help.

In no way whatsoever am I making any excuses whatsoever for murderers of ANY identity, but I will say this, and I expect to attacked for saying it.

Transgender people in many countries and in recent years in the U.S. under maga fascist rule often experience extreme ignorance, intolerance, and hatred in response to their very existence.

That means for them constant psychological stress especially when the hatred is expressed by people close to them such as their family.

Now be honest now -- do you deny that such social pressure will in some cases lead some transgender people into extreme or violent behaviors? So those who claim being trans itself is a mental illness. have you ever considered that extreme transphobia rather than being trans can lead some trans people to insane behaviors?

I'll put this another way perhaps easier to understand.

I have NO DOUBT whatsoever that if extreme transphobia didn't exist, that at least SOME of the violent incidents carried out by transgender people would have never happened. Do you agree with that or not?

42 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Transgender people are by definition mentally ill

Agree ... to truly believe, you are a different sex, definitely falls under mentally ill.

Takes a simple test or tests to verify, what sex you are, suppose to be. If the mentally ill saw it on paper, they might realize, they are simply gay or bi.

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Transgender people in many countries and in recent years in the U.S. under maga fascist rule often experience extreme ignorance, intolerance, and hatred in response to their very existence.

That is the bottom line in the whole discussion. I submit the trans people do not exist. It's a manifestation of mental illness. I would say the same thing about dudes that pay thousands of dollars to buy animal suits and walk around it's a firmly believe that they are not a human but rather a collie. The inability to recognize reality is a fundamental element of a mental illness diagnosis.

Some dude wants to wear his wife's panties and walk around the house more power to him but when he starts believing that he's a girl is when he starts needing treatment.

31 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I have NO DOUBT whatsoever that if extreme transphobia didn't exist, that at least SOME of the violent incidents carried out by transgender people would have never happened. Do you agree with that or not?

No. Violence its self can be a manifestation of mental illness and what you propose is akin to blaming a short skirt for rape.

Extreme hate is spewed against me every day on the net, and I dont mass shoot folks.

So two trans shooters i the last year? They aren't even keeping up with ICE, much less the MAGA looneys.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

So when a cisgender person is violent does it follow that all cisgender people have a mental illness?

Why do you get to use a derogatory term for people born male/female ?
Thought that was against the rules ?
Reported

10 minutes ago, Slowhand225 said:

Why do you get to use a derogatory term for people born male/female ?
Thought that was against the rules ?
Reported

Hardly derogatory.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

In no way whatsoever am I making any excuses whatsoever for murderers of ANY identity, but I will say this, and I expect to attacked for saying it.

Transgender people in many countries and in recent years in the U.S. under maga fascist rule often experience extreme ignorance, intolerance, and hatred in response to their very existence.

That means for them constant psychological stress especially when the hatred is expressed by people close to them such as their family.

Now be honest now -- do you deny that such social pressure will in some cases lead some transgender people into extreme or violent behaviors? So those who claim being trans itself is a mental illness. have you ever considered that extreme transphobia rather than being trans can lead some trans people to insane behaviors?

I'll put this another way perhaps easier to understand.

I have NO DOUBT whatsoever that if extreme transphobia didn't exist, that at least SOME of the violent incidents carried out by transgender people would have never happened. Do you agree with that or not?

I wonder what you mean by extreme transphobia.Undoubtedly it does exist but I'm not sure how large a group profess and more importantly act on their hatred.I must say as a NYT reading Brit, I'm always astonished how many on the liberal/left in the US regard someone like JK Rowling as a extreme transphobic to the point of seeking to cancel her (they wish). On our side of the Atlantic something of this lunacy exists - for example Daniel Radcliffe - but not to the same extent.

It is a strange lifestyle for many of us, I'm a pretty open-minded person and I do believe that the vast majority of transgender souls are decent, law-abiding folks, there is a small subsect such as the ladyboy community in Pattaya, who tend to prey on people who don't have good survival skills, but I don't think that's a true reflection of the community.

All I know is that I wake up in the morning and it's pretty nice to look at the mirror and be content who I am, and my natural gender. Wanting to be something other than what you are, has got to be a challenge in life.

6 minutes ago, jayboy said:

I wonder what you mean by extreme transphobia.Undoubtedly it does exist but I'm not sure how large a group profess and more importantly act on their hatred.I must say as a NYT reading Brit, I'm always astonished how many on the liberal/left in the US regard someone like JK Rowling as a extreme transphobic to the point of seeking to cancel her (they wish). On our side of the Atlantic something of this lunacy exists - for example Daniel Radcliffe - but not to the same extent.

The policies of the maga fascist Trump regime are extremely transphobic.

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Mislabeling transgender identity as “mental illness” is considered outdated and discriminatory by medical authorities.

If ya(godas) heels fit, wear 'em

20 minutes ago, Slowhand225 said:

Why do you get to use a derogatory term for people born male/female ?
Thought that was against the rules ?
Reported

Didn’t happen.

I'm quaking in my boots.

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

No. Violence its self can be a manifestation of mental illness and what you propose is akin to blaming a short skirt for rape.

The term "mental illness" is so vague as to barely mean anything.

Just about anyone on the planet is liable to snap and pick up a gun and murder someone.

So transgenders should be allowed to carry firearms as much as anyone else.

Regarding transgenders being "mentally ill", it might be better to soften it and say there may be some psychological issues that causes people to change their gender and maybe there should be some counseling before people make hasty decisions about altering their gender. But it has nothing to do with gun violence. It's 2 separate issues.

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Takes a simple test or tests to verify, what sex you are,

You so smart.

Try this one by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Try to determine the sex of the athlete.

If you so smart.

I used this for years with my Cambridge and IB students.

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The policies of the maga fascist Trump regime are extremely transphobic.

Ah yes, it was only a matter of time before the word "fascist" reared its ugly head in this thread.

Manipulating impressionable underage kids, likely with mommy and daddy issues, to transition so they could be "a somebody and have an identity" is of dubious ethical morality, in my opinion.

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Transgender people are by definition mentally ill

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

No — being transgender is not defined as a mental illness under modern medical and psychological standards

So what? Who cares what they say. Better talk to that jury in New York that just slaps some doctors down

What you seem to be saying is: by your definition transgender people are mentally ill.

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

No. Violence its self can be a manifestation of mental illness and what you propose is akin to blaming a short skirt for rape.

Extreme hate is spewed against me every day on the net, and I dont mass shoot folks.

Would you say committing rape is also a mental illness?

What would be more dangerous to kids?

A drag queen with a book going to read a story or an idiot going to school with a loaded gun?