Have you ever met a kid who "cuts?"

I have, and it breaks my heart to see it. 

"Cutting" is a self-destructive form of self-harm that, counterintuitively, soothes people in severe mental distress. Typically found in teenagers who have difficulty coping with growing up for any of a number of different reasons, it may or may not be a cry for help, but is is certainly a sign that the kid is in desperate need of it. 

This is the complaint from a volunteer, which Scotland's charity regulator @ScotCharityReg eventually disclosed under FOI.

Volunteer claims managers said if a child is using self-harm as a 'coping mechanism' then 'we can't take that away from them'. pic.twitter.com/xfcD4HgO37

— Dan Sanderson (@DSanderson_85) March 24, 2025

Unfortunately, in today's bizarre world of alphabet ideology, where any form of "typical" or "normal" behavior is seen as a sign that people are being oppressed and not expressing their true selves, cutting apparently is becoming yet another "queer" identity that counselors shouldn't try to stop. 

Helping kids become happy with who they are rather than affirming their mental illness is a form of oppression, imposing societal norms on people who are divergent from societal norms. If you can't affirm cutting, how can you affirm an identity that encompasses sterilizing and mutilating yourself? 

Both are expressions of how one "feels," and the body is just a canvas on which you paint your identity. 

You and I may look at this trend as bizarre, destructive, and cruel to an extreme that seems unimaginable. That is because we believe that social norms can and should be based on an idea of what is good and healthy for human beings, which may exist within a range of diversity but are not infinitely variable. 

Bodies may come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, but there is a discernible standard called "health" that can be reasonably defined. The same holds true for moral and ethical behavior and what is acceptable as social norms. Different societies can express those standards differently, more or less loosely, but any decent society understands that there are limits to diversity. 

"Cutting" should be far outside those limits, but then again, the whole idea behind "queer" is that every individual is radically free and should be unbound by any limits at all. "Health" is a social construct. "Morality" is a social construct. "Ethics" are a social construct. Sex is a social construct. Biology and Physics are social constructs. 

If you think of yourself as a turtle, you are a turtle. If your 500 lb body is how you like it, then that is what is healthy. 

NEW: A member of the Oregon Consumer Advisory Council, whose job it is to advise the Oregon Health Authority on mental health policies for the state, identifies as "turtlegender" and uses they/them and 'turtle' pronouns.

I wish I was kidding. I'm ashamed of my own government. pic.twitter.com/XOhVmqtGlF

— David Medina 🦫🇺🇸 (@davidmedinapdx) March 10, 2025

If this were a fringe movement, it would be a curiosity and not much of a concern. But this ideology lies at the heart of modern medicine and counseling and forms the basis of alphabet ideology. Medical schools are teaching through a Critical Theory lens, school curricula are rife with Critical Theory, and the psychology profession is dominated by practitioners of "affirming" mental illness. 

What to do about it? Other than fighting it one battle at a time, I have no idea. We are surrounded by the enemy.