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thank you for sharing this personal account. This was another story in which I’ve heard that people become obsessed with the superficial values of society. A lot of my spiritual journey has been to accept my physical condition- i.e. body, environment/season etc. as it is momentary. Where ‘home’ truly resides is within one’s self. I’m not very close with my family, but I had mentors my entire life by the blessing of the universe’s ways, and they guided me towards acceptance and my overall view of my belief system. So to hear this struggle of gender identity just makes me think back to how I struggled with anorexia (among many other things), although I do not know what these folks are going through, but that it is a mere surface-level infatuation that if you feed the hungry monster it only grows. Accepting is one thing, encouraging and shoving it down the throats of the youth is an entirely other thing. It’s hip, it’s cool and whether they know it or not it is a ploy to keep them weak. If we recognized each other as other sentient beings and we could learn to just accept ourselves as all divinely unique, this wouldn’t be so mainstreamed. Alas, we are a country of entertainment-driven people who want yet, another show. That is at the demise of these who are struggling, their mental health. They need help, it is a call for someone to love and care for them and most don’t know how to love. It is taboo to talk about love, therefore we go around aimless and just recycling what we learned from our own broken families.

There is a lot involved with these traumas and I am not even touching on a fraction of what people experience. This is what I have discovered in researching and from my own personal interactions with some that I have ran into, I mean you cannot escape the narrative in this day and age. Again, thank you for sharing.

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