This is the 21st century, and you can be whatever you want to be. If you’re a big, burly fellow, with just a little hormone pill and a lot of makeup you can still become a champion female swimmer. If you’re a guy who’s an annoying publicity hound with a persistent five o’clock shadow, you can throw on a slinky dress and become a major social media influencer, pitching products from beer to tampons. If you’re a semi-coherent, appallingly corrupt dementia patient, you can still be president of the United States. And if you’re a little guy, yes, it’s true: you can be tall.
But to be trans tall comes with a price, and it’s not all paid in money.
Take the case of one Yeferson Cossio, 29, who is a major Instagram star, with 11.1 million followers. At a pint-sized 5’8”, young Yeferson felt as if he was not tall enough to reach the finer things in life, and was constantly getting sand kicked in his face by guys with fewer Instagram followers but with more than enough height to compensate. Finally, he decided to take matters into his own hands, or legs, and plunked down as much as $175,000 for leg implants that would, at the risk of making him look like a man with a tiny torso and grotesquely long legs, make him what he had longed to be ever since he was an even littler shaver: tall.
All it would take was leg-lengthening surgery, and after that, the heady heights of paradise and all the lanky ingenues he could manage to attract. Yet there have been a few bumps in the road to throwing away the step stool: the Daily Mail reported Tuesday that poor Ex-Shorty “has been left in constant excruciating pain.”
This is because the surgery Yeferson Cossio required to go from Danny DeVito to Manute Bol “involved breaking his legs, implanting metal rods, and slowly stretching them — four months ago.” Four months of hell, but just imagine the rewards! Cossio has tried to keep them in mind, “but as the rods have slowly pulled his bones apart to stretch them, he said the pain has become so bad he feels he will collapse and is desperate to take the rods out.”
Cossio himself, now wheelchair-bound, is not in good spirits: “I'm very nervous, I want this to end, but it's not possible.” He says that the pain is so bad that he is sleeping very little; “I have tried sleeping pills, but they don’t work for me. The pain wakes me up and I feel devastated. Maybe there is going to come a point where my body will collapse and I will no longer be able to cope with the pain or anything.”
Nevertheless, short guys are lining up for the same torture Cossio has been receiving and are paying top dollar for the privilege: “Though expensive, plastic surgeons estimate the number of men undergoing this surgery has doubled in the past few years.”
This, like the trans madness, is a function of America’s spiritual decline. When people trusted in a beneficent God, they were more ready to bear patiently with the frustrations and difficulties of their particular situation. They also didn’t assume that the sickness of the soul was to be cured in externals obtainable through surgery.
People in general used to understand that we all have our trials and our troubles in various forms. Young people used to be taught to bear them with patience and equanimity and to focus on being grateful for what one had instead of being upset because of what one did not have. All that, however, is passé now, and perfectly healthy men are turning themselves into pain-wracked, misshapen monstrosities as a result.
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Everyone nowadays thinks everyone else has it easier. Men become women because they think women have it easier. Women become men because they think men have it easier. Critical race theory advocates think white people have it easier. Meanwhile, there are many prominent people trying to pass as people of color. There is Hilaria Baldwin, the upper-class Bostonian who pretended to be Spanish for a decade. The white Jewish professor Jessica Krug passed as black for years. So did Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP official who famously turned out not to be a CP at all.
Still at it is Shaun King, aka Talcum X, who strenuously insists that he isn’t white despite photographic evidence he was a light-haired white child before he was woke. Elizabeth Warren passed as Native American and was even hailed as the first “woman of color” on Harvard’s faculty. Muslim “feminist” activist Linda Sarsour said in a Vox video published in January 2017: “When I wasn’t wearing hijab I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City.” But in an April 2017 interview, the hijabbed Sarsour referred to “people of color like me.”
Why do all these white folks pretend to be “people of color”? Because they also think POCs “have it easier,” and the world certainly does seem to “bend for them.”
It has been forgotten in our age of absurdity, but no one group really has it easier than any other: not tall people, or short people, or white people, or black or brown people or anyone else. We all have our trials and our troubles in various forms. Because of his quest to become taller, Yeferson Cossio has some new ones. The quest wasn’t worth it.
