I can barely believe we, as society, are regressing so much on basic human rights. Yet, it is happening, and more often every day. It's certainly discouraging, all this violence.
Thanks for sharing your insights and knowledge with us, Doc. It's such a pleasure to read you. And it gives me hope for a better world.
Wow, just wow. This is fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Fascinating because I just can’t fathom what the thinking process of these people must be like to make decisions like this. Terrifying because just a few people can make these decisions that make so many people feel unsafe. I don’t really do social media, but the social media that I am on, is mostly me trying to connect with other queer and like-minded people.
The history of mental illness and the LGBTQ+ has also always been fascinating to me. The thought that not long ago, queer people might have gotten an icepick jammed into their brain is so weird and scary.
Thank you so much for this newsletter Dr. Carthy. Responses like prevent me from losing hope.
Thank you for this forum. It is a breath of fresh air when circumstances feel strangling. As an attorney practicing immigration in the US specifically immigration policy this has been the longest 4 days in 22 plus years of practice. I had to read the executive orders that were signed Monday including the one "protecting women" (not that we asked him to protect us) where our federal government was ordered to recognize only two genders male and female and that gender was established at the moment of conception. The response from the science community has been perfect, explaining how at the moment of conception there is only one gender female and how the Y chromosome is not activated for weeks later. So the effect of his order can be that everyone is now female. Little moments of zen like those responses and your posts here will hopefully keep me fueled for the next 4 years.
For anyone reading this comment, I implore you to listen to the speech that Mariann Edgar Budde gave aimed at Trump. The last few days have been so scary for many people of the LGBTQ+ community, and even though things will unfortunately continue to be that way, moments and people like this give me hope.
Hi Dr. Elliott, thanks for sharing the historical insights, it would be great to hear more. From an anthropological view, the potential root causes of such abhorrent situations are intriguing. Do they stem from primitive, missguided fears related to tribal survival, maladjusted groupthink, and/or other factors? I find these kinds of insights can either help actively counter negativey, or ignore nonsensical hate and carry on with life.
"Thirteen" sounds interesting, I might have to give it a read - I recently watched Clint Eastwood's court drama "Juror #2" with Nicholas Hoult - if you haven't already seen it, it's an pretty good film led from the perspective of a juror. A bit long, but delicately engrossing and captivating.
It's very scary to sew such regression in attitudes towards sexual orientation.
I was at high school (NZ 1986) when the law was changed so it was no longer Illegal to be gay (days before any other sexual preference even had a name in public here) and I remember the huge sigh of relief that was let out among my class. A breath I hadn't even noticed was been held, we all felt it even those who didn't identify as part of any community.
To think we may be going back to a society of that shame and hiding and being labeled as mentally ill is really rather revolting.
I am also part of the invisible disability community as we are still struggling to be recognized as people and not a mental illness. I really hope sensible voices can be loud enough to remind everyone that we don't all need to be the same for the world to be better. What will make things better is understanding and acceptance
Thanks for this newsletter Dr Elliott, what you wrote needed to be said and shared
I can barely believe we, as society, are regressing so much on basic human rights. Yet, it is happening, and more often every day. It's certainly discouraging, all this violence.
Thanks for sharing your insights and knowledge with us, Doc. It's such a pleasure to read you. And it gives me hope for a better world.
Wow, just wow. This is fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Fascinating because I just can’t fathom what the thinking process of these people must be like to make decisions like this. Terrifying because just a few people can make these decisions that make so many people feel unsafe. I don’t really do social media, but the social media that I am on, is mostly me trying to connect with other queer and like-minded people.
The history of mental illness and the LGBTQ+ has also always been fascinating to me. The thought that not long ago, queer people might have gotten an icepick jammed into their brain is so weird and scary.
Thank you so much for this newsletter Dr. Carthy. Responses like prevent me from losing hope.
Thank you for this forum. It is a breath of fresh air when circumstances feel strangling. As an attorney practicing immigration in the US specifically immigration policy this has been the longest 4 days in 22 plus years of practice. I had to read the executive orders that were signed Monday including the one "protecting women" (not that we asked him to protect us) where our federal government was ordered to recognize only two genders male and female and that gender was established at the moment of conception. The response from the science community has been perfect, explaining how at the moment of conception there is only one gender female and how the Y chromosome is not activated for weeks later. So the effect of his order can be that everyone is now female. Little moments of zen like those responses and your posts here will hopefully keep me fueled for the next 4 years.
For anyone reading this comment, I implore you to listen to the speech that Mariann Edgar Budde gave aimed at Trump. The last few days have been so scary for many people of the LGBTQ+ community, and even though things will unfortunately continue to be that way, moments and people like this give me hope.
Hi Dr. Elliott, thanks for sharing the historical insights, it would be great to hear more. From an anthropological view, the potential root causes of such abhorrent situations are intriguing. Do they stem from primitive, missguided fears related to tribal survival, maladjusted groupthink, and/or other factors? I find these kinds of insights can either help actively counter negativey, or ignore nonsensical hate and carry on with life.
"Thirteen" sounds interesting, I might have to give it a read - I recently watched Clint Eastwood's court drama "Juror #2" with Nicholas Hoult - if you haven't already seen it, it's an pretty good film led from the perspective of a juror. A bit long, but delicately engrossing and captivating.
It's very scary to sew such regression in attitudes towards sexual orientation.
I was at high school (NZ 1986) when the law was changed so it was no longer Illegal to be gay (days before any other sexual preference even had a name in public here) and I remember the huge sigh of relief that was let out among my class. A breath I hadn't even noticed was been held, we all felt it even those who didn't identify as part of any community.
To think we may be going back to a society of that shame and hiding and being labeled as mentally ill is really rather revolting.
I am also part of the invisible disability community as we are still struggling to be recognized as people and not a mental illness. I really hope sensible voices can be loud enough to remind everyone that we don't all need to be the same for the world to be better. What will make things better is understanding and acceptance
Thanks for this newsletter Dr Elliott, what you wrote needed to be said and shared