A transgender academic has made a disturbing case for universal euthanasia laws that allow “assisted suicide” on demand.
Canadian academic Alexandre Baril argues that governments must euthanize citizens before they become suicidal and kill themselves first.
Baril was born a biological female but claims to be a “bisexual transgender disabled male.”
According to Baril, she is “disabled” because she “identifies” as “suicidal.”
Baril claims to have “self-identified” as “suicidal” since the age of 12.
Currently an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa, Baril is a scholar of “Queer, Gender, and Crip [i.e., Disability] Studies.”
She also claims to be an expert in “linguistic diversity” – meaning, being Quebec-born, she speaks both French and English.
As a result, she is proud of coining various French-language terms for concepts originally taken from the Anglophone Grievance Studies world.
She achieves this by placing the letter ‘e’ on the end of the word while inflicting an accent: “Transfeminism” becomes “transféminisme,” and “cisgndernormativity” is “cisgendernormativité.”
Last year, Baril launched a groundbreaking book on suicide, titled: “Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide.”
The book’s cover features what would appear to be an image of a suicidal transgender.
In the book, Baril argues that suicidal people are currently oppressed by something called “structural suicidism.”
She explains that it’s the rough equivalent of structural racism, which manifests via the prejudiced attempts of society to prevent people from killing themselves, via the following structurally violent methods:
If there was no stigma about admitting you were suicidal, she says, then people would feel more comfortable telling family, friends, doctors, and therapists about their fatal urges, and talking matters over.
Baril claims that allowing government-sanctioned suicide will lift the stigma of suicide.
According to Baril, doctors should not dismiss the option of their patients killing themselves, or attempt to treat their suicidal urges.
Instead, doctors should offer to euthanize the patients.
As Baril explains:
“A suicide-affirmative approach does not mean pushing suicidal people to suicide, just as the goal of the trans-affirmative approach is not to push a person to transition.
“Rather, it means that instead of trying to cure trans people of their transness or suicidal people of their suicidality, we develop safer spaces in which we can examine their suicidality with them and discuss a variety of options.
“My approach proposes to shift from a preventionist logic to a logic of accompaniment to help suicidal people to make the best-informed decision, a support that could be life-affirming and death-affirming [on a case-by-case basis].”
Baril argues that, by rendering suicidal people an oppressed and marginalized group and making “some people’s desire for death abnormal” rather than “perfectly natural,” they will feel even more suicidal.
As an alternative, Baril advises that governments should euthanize suicidal people before they end up killing themselves.
Baril explains:
“My approach is a radical de-stigmatisation of suicidality.
“Slogans such as ‘Speak Up, Reach Out’ or ‘Let’s Talk’ urge suicidal people to share their distress.
“But suicide prevention services send a paradoxical message since those who open their hearts often experience harm, forced treatments and rights violation in the name of care and of saving vulnerable people from themselves, all because suicide is never an option.”
“Suicide prevention does more harm than good,” Baril concludes.
Baril claims that it is far better to facilitate suicide instead, in the hope fewer people will then choose to go through with it.
https://slaynews.com/news/transgender-academic-warns-citizens-might-kill-themselves-governments-dont-euthanize-them-first/
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