Anyone looking at the US mental health system rips their hair from their heads. It’s AWFUL and the cause of most of our societal ills – DH and I were talking about the gun thing the other day. There are already laws on the books that made it illegal for most of the shooters to have obtained firearms. They were already lawbreakers. The dude who shot the kids at Sandy Hook was considered dangerous by his own mother… thirty years ago, she could have committed him. Now? I’ve heard from family members of the mentally ill – a dangerously insane family member rolls up on the family home? The police won’t intervene, it’s just a family argument. The day after your child turns 18, s/he is a legal adult and can stop taking their pills and you can’t do a *thing*.
We’re starting to have laws passed insisting that everyone join in the lie of the new gender assignment – because this will stop the suicides, if we’re all really “nice”. -shakes head- I don’t think so. There was a TG (or reallly unfortunate woman) at the local supermarket. Lovely makeup and nails – pity about the full beard that the makeup couldn’t cover and being 6′ tall… I’m oblivious and I can spot that. Will that become illegal too? Noticing? I figure by the time my son is 18, you’ll be transphobic if you don’t date trans people.
Through the looking glass.
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