https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1r7h7lu/a_question_that_is_often_brigaded_never_answered/
https://youtu.be/SHlv-D2HAyg
After 2018 the Gender Critical philosophy was that, if you were listening to a woman describe her relationship problems with her boyfriend or husband. And one of the situations she explained was, her boyfriend would threaten to commit suicide if she suggested ending the relationship. For example "3 days in a row he's texting me really angrily - back to back text messages - but I'm scared to break up with him because he's now saying in the text messages that he has access to a gun and he's going to kill himself. And I don't want to be responsible for that."
If you're on this subreddit then, I believe I don't have to break this next part down for you. You already know what I'm going to say. But I'm going to say it anyway and risk a ban on my local city subreddit.
In the hypothetical above, the situation is a form of abuse. I threaten to hurt me, to get you to do what I want. And what I want, is to go on and do the same stupid and often destructive shit that I was doing to scare you off to begin with - without you exposing me.
We all went through the "just go to therapy" era of the 2010s. This is 101 shit.
Why is it, though, anytime online, every single time, when someone asks whether gender reassignment surgery is the solution to gender dysphoria, the top and most highly upvoted replies to that are, "transgender people will kill themselves if they can't transition" and not a single person applies the critical thinking they would if their sister was talking about their husband?
If you're in a stage of your life where you have an extreme solution to not getting what you want, is the solution that's in your best interest - just the thing you're demanding - or a mental health professional? Aren't people who think this way, mentally ill? What makes them different from an abusive boyfriend trying to hide his alcoholism and anger issues by keeping his girlfriend hostage in a "everything's good here" relationship?