Transcript and audio of WPATH symposium on eunuch identity. On the image below it would best to translate “dysphoria” as disorder. That would be ‘keeping it real!’
At the end of the transcript provided by sub-stacker Wesley Yang, a commenter with the moniker “Pepperkin” writes:
Is there a word for a deranged scientist who cuts off a mentally ill man’s testicles for money and comically pretends he’s doing a noble act?
The word evil comes to mind. But maybe that’s too harsh. Maybe.
These are the people exercising influence over the organization setting standards for gender affirming care.
It’s a long “calmversation” but you should at least listen to the first fifteen minutes. They are indispensable toward understanding the cultural decay at this moment in Western Time. Eliza describes the session on Eunuchs at last years WPATH conference in Montreal where they unveiled “Standards of Care” version 8. (Eunuchs are IN. Trans-racialism is still OUT.)
At 13:21 of the interview, Benjamin summarizes our gender identity moment as he comments on the logic behind understanding EUNUCH’s as a “gender identity” which the most recent WPATH Standards of Care encourages. (For the uninitiated, Eunuchs are castrated males – males without balls.)
BB: If you do understand it (being a EUNUCH) as a gender identity, then what a gender identity becomes is something that is imposed on nature. It is a synthetic man-made thing. So it couches gender identity as a social construct that is inscribed upon the body.
BINGO.
We become our own Creators. As individuals. Or groups. B. I. N. G. O. Tell em what they win Bob! “Alienation, blueridgemountain_man. alienation!” First, from God their Creator. But also their very natures.
The Presentation in the Temple – Byzantine Painter (15th century) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Hypapante is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox church. According to the Gospel of Luke (2:22–38), when Joseph (far left) and the Virgin (center) presented Christ in the temple for the rite of purification forty days after his birth, his divinity was immediately recognized by Simeon (right) and the prophetess Anna (left).
The Circumcision of Jesus by Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555-1619) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Luke 2:21-24
After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Jesus Is Presented in the Temple22 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord”), 24 and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”
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