I am 99.9 percent certain that further research into G.B. will reveal an abiding interest in Theosophy and New Age nonsense. Theosophy in 19c Russia was associated with the Skoptic cults. Many converts to the Heaven's Gate cult, which began around and maintained an interest in Theosophy, castrated themselves.
Interesting! I wonder how many SRS patients historically haven't fit into the Blanchard paradigm (gay/AGP), and instead were deluded, into cults, etc. That seems to be a third rail even for realist gender doctors.
I see it as a faith movement. We live in an age of ersatz religions and religious remixes. There are elements of Gnosticism and Hermeticism in the ideas they use to explain themselves. The crisis of meaning in the modern world invites new explanations and "gender" proposes itself as a cure.
I am 99.9 percent certain that further research into G.B. will reveal an abiding interest in Theosophy and New Age nonsense. Theosophy in 19c Russia was associated with the Skoptic cults. Many converts to the Heaven's Gate cult, which began around and maintained an interest in Theosophy, castrated themselves.
Interesting! I wonder how many SRS patients historically haven't fit into the Blanchard paradigm (gay/AGP), and instead were deluded, into cults, etc. That seems to be a third rail even for realist gender doctors.
I see it as a faith movement. We live in an age of ersatz religions and religious remixes. There are elements of Gnosticism and Hermeticism in the ideas they use to explain themselves. The crisis of meaning in the modern world invites new explanations and "gender" proposes itself as a cure.