Hormones that unleash rage, depression, psychosis: My Cancer treatment showed me the horrors of trans meds
So many voices from across the spectrum are weighing in on the mass shooting that occurred this week at a Minneapolis Catholic church, whilst children were praying.
When it was learned that the shooter was a transgendered male, there were, quite naturally, massive reactions on social media and from the political class in America. Mayor Frey of Minneapolis made several media appearances decrying “hate” being directed at the Transgender community. Other politicians did what they always do and used this shooting as an occasion to rail against gun availability and to lambaste Republicans, the NRA and President Trump.
This endless pointing of fingers will likely continue until this horrible news event, like other equally horrible mass shootings in schools and places of worship, becomes a faded news story because of “new” news.
While the horror of what happened merits the deep revulsion that has swept across the nation –there are two aspects present in many of these political discussions that are not receiving a lot of attention.
Our nation has seen an increase in transgendered persons being involved in mass shootings. This is not conjecture, this is not a “talking point,” this is a fact. Minneapolis was not the first – and I fear will not be the last.
As of this writing, I am still unsure if the assailant in the Minneapolis shooting, Robert Westman, also known as “gender affirmed” Robin Westman, was taking the drug often used to “treat” gender dysphoria.
I happen to know a bit about that drug, because I took it.
Several years ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I had the best medical treatment available thanks to the great medical staff at the National Institute of Health.
The drug that was used in concert with additional treatment, as it turns out, is one of the very drugs used to treat dysphoria. Prostate cancer grows more aggressively with testosterone production – and the drug was used to cut off that production.
This drug is powerful and dangerous. Before it was administered to me, my nurse would have to dress in a full hazmat suit. Pregnant nurses were not allowed to administer the drug at all.
At the beginning of the drug regime, which lasted over two years, I was advised to “speak to somebody” professionally during the course. At first, I didn’t understand why – now I totally understand why that advice was rendered.
The drug “mimics” testosterone. It “fools” the body into thinking testosterone is being produced, so the body then shuts off producing more of it. In fact, this drug is really causing estrogen to be produced.
To this day – because of that treatment, I still have “man-boobs” that I am trying to shed.
But for all the physical impacts of this drug, the real challenge is what it does to your psychology.
The hormonal changes that this drug produces are off the charts. Mood swings, rage, deep and profound depressions, suicidal thoughts. I found myself crying – no not crying – bawling over sob stories from TV commercials, or social media posts. It is a constant roller coaster of incredible emotional swings, and at one point, I confided to a very dear friend of mine that I had grown weary of battling it. She urged me to do what the doctors had told me, to speak with a therapist.
I had a friend whom I met in treatment. We went our separate ways after the treatment was over, but for over a year, I tried to reach him. When we finally touched base, I located him in a hospital in the Midwest. He had suffered greatly with emotional issues, including extreme rage. When I asked him why he didn’t call me, he said this to me. “I didn’t call you, because I needed to have one friend left in the world.”
His ongoing battles with “rage”, you see, had alienated everyone in his life. That broke my heart.
It still does when I think of it in this light.
This same drug is being given to children. Many adults are unprepared to cope with the powerful effects of it. Children are being given this drug – and they may have to take it all their lives?
This is total insanity to my mind.
If you look at what we know from this Minneapolis shooter – his mind was “enraged”. I am not a doctor. I am not a shrink. But I do know what emotional turmoil looks like – and it’s in his journal as far as I can tell – and that turmoil was in his mind.
I ask this question. WHAT are we allowing to be done to our children? That is one aspect we need to discuss further, following the horrific mass shooting in Minneapolis.
The next aspect is something I hope, dear reader, you will not find callous for me to bring up.
Mass shootings in America happen almost every day, certainly almost every week. The very weekend before this horrific tragedy in Minneapolis, there were multiple mass shootings in Los Angeles. There are children being killed, purposefully and in some cases, the results of accidental shootings in the inner cities of America, on almost a weekly basis.
The very week this horrific event in Minneapolis was unfolding, politicians and political commentators on the left were blasting the current presidential administration for using the National Guard in conjunction with other government agencies to finally restore law, order and safety to the nation’s capital city. They were also having a hissy fit over the possibility that the administration would roll out the same kind of law enforcement tactics to other cities where the kind of murder and mayhem that occurred in Minneapolis could happen on a daily or weekly basis.
Let me be even more blunt. The Democrats who, for the most part, run these cities, and their allies in the Mainstream Legacy Press, never show the same level of outrage about the children who are murdered by the score across this nation each year – because the lives of those children, for whatever reason, are apparently not as important. Their deaths cannot produce a media narrative that will relate in a chance for higher ratings.
