I saw it and thought you were fab. Shame GL had to cut it short and I’m looking forward to him having a longer chat with you. I have so much empathy for you with the difficult situation you are going through with your son and admire how you are both navigating it. It is easy for people to be dismissive or even outright abusive about trans identified males when all they hear about or experience are the very worst examples. You are working through it with compassion but also without shying away from hard analysis and I have so much admiration for that because it cannot be easy for either you or him. I hope that with time and continued patience he’ll come out the other side healthy and strong🤞🏻
Looks, sounds intriguing. What was particularly noteworthy, so far, was your comment about a "bizarre form of empathy".
I've often argued or suggested that part and parcel of the issue is imprinting, a fairly durable psychological concept that may have some relevance:
"Lorenz demonstrated how incubator-hatched geese would imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they saw within what he called a "critical period" between 13 and 16 hours shortly after hatching. For example, the goslings would imprint on Lorenz himself (to be more specific, on his wading boots), and he is often depicted being followed by a gaggle of geese who had imprinted on him."
I saw it and thought you were fab. Shame GL had to cut it short and I’m looking forward to him having a longer chat with you. I have so much empathy for you with the difficult situation you are going through with your son and admire how you are both navigating it. It is easy for people to be dismissive or even outright abusive about trans identified males when all they hear about or experience are the very worst examples. You are working through it with compassion but also without shying away from hard analysis and I have so much admiration for that because it cannot be easy for either you or him. I hope that with time and continued patience he’ll come out the other side healthy and strong🤞🏻
You were great on it. 👍
Looks, sounds intriguing. What was particularly noteworthy, so far, was your comment about a "bizarre form of empathy".
I've often argued or suggested that part and parcel of the issue is imprinting, a fairly durable psychological concept that may have some relevance:
"Lorenz demonstrated how incubator-hatched geese would imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they saw within what he called a "critical period" between 13 and 16 hours shortly after hatching. For example, the goslings would imprint on Lorenz himself (to be more specific, on his wading boots), and he is often depicted being followed by a gaggle of geese who had imprinted on him."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
You might also be interested in Woody Allen's Zelig - "The Chameleon Man":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUW8JsLDsNo
A phenomenon with much broader manifestations than just transgenderism, the studies on which may provide some useful illumination.