*Editor's Note: This true account is Part 3 of a 6-Part series. Read Part 1 and Part 2.
If we really believe that supporting others on their path to uncover their True Self is the best route for us to go as a society, what do you suppose our country will look like a decade from now?
Well, the number of "otherkin"--people who identify themselves as half-human, half other species--is growing. Men and women who believe they are half dragon, lion, or dog are popping up all over the globe. A man named John who identifies himself as a fox is requesting special legal rights that will accommodate him as an animal. A tech company employee who identifies as half cat recently filed an HR complaint with his employer for not providing litter boxes in the restroom.
If you support transgender rights and believe everyone should be allowed to self-identify as whatever they "feel" like inside, you must support otherkin rights. After all, who are we to say what someone's subjective reality is?
Surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly), a significant percentage of "otherkin" also identify as transgender. And just like transgender individuals, many otherkin are having surgery to look more like the animal or entity they identify with. Eva Tiamat Legion Medusa (formerly Richard Hernandez) is a transgender woman (born a man) from Texas who also identifies as half-dragon. Eva has spent over $60,000 on surgeries to look more like a dragon. This includes having his ears removed, his nose removed and most of his teeth removed. He's had eight horns implanted into his forehead, his tongue bi-furcated and the whites of his eyes permanently stained green.
Eva says on his Facebook page, "I smile and I look in quiet contemplation and I say goodbye for good for the man I used to be ..." He goes on to explain that he is posting the final photo from his old life, his life when he was still a man and a father to his young son. He says, "In shedding this part of my life that makes me human, I swing the pendulum even more towards my goal of becoming 100% my true self as a reptilian."
Sound familiar?
Like Eva, my brother will likely have countless surgeries to modify his body to better represent his True Self. But instead of a reptile, he'll morph into the more socially acceptable female. Trans women often seek out breast augmentation surgery, facial feminization surgery, a tracheal shave, voice feminization surgery, and last but not least, a vaginoplasty.
Because personal identity is now deemed "fluid" (thanks in large part to transgenderism), you can bet that more animals and mythical creatures (like Eva) will start appearing and seeking more legal rights in years to come.
And if you can legally change your biological sex just because you feel like it, logic follows that you must be allowed to legally change anything about yourself since you and you alone determine your personal reality. This is how we end up with people like Martina Big and Michael Eurwen from Germany--the couple has received melatonin injections for many years in order to make their skin darker. Why? Because although reality would tell us they're both Caucasian, they personally identify as African.
If you google Martina Big, you will immediately notice a few things... namely, that she, like Eva, may have some mental health issues that have gone unaddressed. Not only has she spent many years attempting to transform herself into an African woman, she has also had 23 breast implants. Body modification is once again a common theme. So the real question is: Should we all play along with Eva and Martina's delusions because only they can tell us who they really are? Or should we try to get people like this the help they so obviously need?
Even as American culture continues to spout a message of "body positivity," my brother's therapist (in conjunction with the trans medical industry) insist that his body is his problem, not his mind. They tell him that he must modify his body beyond recognition in an attempt to move deeper into his delusion.
Why would my brother's therapist (and therapists all over the country) tell men who have a history of cross-dressing to take their compulsive behavior to its furthest extreme by ingesting dangerous cross-sex hormones for the rest of their lives?
Part of the reason is because there's big money driving trans medicine.
After trans medical research became popular in Europe in the early 2000s, doctors gained a new understanding of how they could make a financial killing by peddling a new "treatment" for the psychiatric problem of gender dysphoria.
It's not that these doctors weren't genuinely trying to help people with gender dysphoria. It's just that once money came into the equation, the trajectory of the industry changed. If you study the history of trans medicine, you'll quickly discover that, as the machine grew bigger and people realized how many millions of dollars could be made off of people's mental health struggles, those who opposed the idea of sex reassignment were silenced. This includes well respected Ivy League professors and medical industry leaders like Dr. Paul McHugh. McHugh was the Johns Hopkins doctor in charge of the first sex-reassignment surgery program in the U.S. Once McHugh reviewed the data and realized that going along with a patient's delusion was proving more harmful than helpful, he shut the Johns Hopkins program down.
By that time, it was too late. What began as two clinics (one on either coast) that recommended sex reassignment surgery to people experiencing gender confusion had already begun to expand. Now there are clinics in almost every state offering these surgeries, and at least 13 states cover transition surgeries under Medicaid.
The sex reassignment surgery market is estimated to reach $968 million by 2024. The country of Thailand alone attracts 2 million transgender people each year to undergo sex reassignment. As a result, the country has a $4 billion medical tourism market. Packages that include medical and surgical expenses plus hotel accommodation start at $9,770.
In When Harry Became Sally, Ryan Anderson explains that when they followed people who had sex reassignment surgery over 30 years in Sweden (a culture that is strongly supportive of transgender people), those who had the surgery still claimed to struggle with severe mental unrest. The suicide rate of those who underwent surgery was 19 times higher than their comparable peers. He concluded that transitioning to the opposite gender does not produce the happiness people seek. Perhaps this is because their problems go much, much deeper.
More than 100 follow-up studies of post-operative transsexuals done by the University of Birmingham concluded none of the studies showed evidence that gender reassignment was beneficial. Even the Obama administration came to the same conclusion in 2016. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services conducted a thorough review of clinical studies and concluded there was not enough evidence to show that sex reassignment surgery benefitted its patients at all.