thank you :3

I will take the opportunity to request literature on trannies, gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, etc. Primary focus is on the biology/causes.

Have read "Trans: when ideology meets reality" by Helen Joyce and am currently reading "Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children" by Hannah Barnes, but they don't primarily focus on the science per se.

Have located relevant articles by Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard, and have read a few articles trying to explain what "gender" is and how it is different from biological sex.

In short, my impression is that gender is a word so ambiguous that it is next to utterly useless (or straight-through incompatible with actual science) and that "transgender" itself is not one but several conditions with partially similar symptoms; the causes are essentially unknown, as is the long-term effects of various treatments.

The British taught them how to build a functioning modern state, established peace through the Leviathan (i.e., stopped the local bullies and unrest via a strong central rule), built infrastructure and set up factories, prohibited some of the most gruesome customs (e.g., Sati), quenched nepotism, helped spread modern medicine and science, established rule of law, etc. etc.

Sure, *to a large extent* they did so to more efficiently extract resources and other purely selfish reasons, but that fact doesn't nullify the benefits that colonialism brought India (or the rest of the world). Whether colonialism was a net benefit or not in any given case is of course a matter of debate, but the popular myth that "colonialism is pure evil and *only* evil" is a blatant lie.

(see for instance Biggar, N. (2023). Colonialism: a moral reckoning. William Collins.)

I'm pretty sure my elementary teachers never said that

I am angry and sad because I know you are 100% correct

they should have remained under British rule
but "noooooo", they said, "colonialism baaad!"
"we will form our own, independent state instead"
you dumb-dumbs
you monkeys
you street-poopers

The unemployment rate in Sweden is 8%
yet people are flown in from Thailand to pick blueberries every year
(Pic unrelated, is waifu :3 )

Yes, but you will be here in your mid-thirties too, just like the rest of us