Those are your only "leftist" ideas? ๐ But no, if it's still uncertain, it bears examination until it's not anymore, one way or another, and that goes for every idea.
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Daily, but on a much smaller, pettier scale. What if I'm wiping my ass wrong? Nobody taught me exactly how to do it, and it's not like anybody is around to notice and say "hey, you know you do it like this?"
I try not to think about my own opinions on big picture stuff as I can spiral fast.
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It's a symptom of having been raised at the peak of a deconstructionist age. Doubt is how we reinforce our beliefs. I'd say you can absolutely stop it, but wouldn't you somewhat doubt that you can absolutely do much of anything if you meditate on it long enough?
It's pretty normal. There's a graph that plots confidence as you gain new skills or knowledge, and it sounds like you're on the down-slope of Mt Stupid and coming into the Valley of Despair.
I have spent my life learning for fun and if I can be said to have learned anything about the process it's that the more you learn the better you understand just how vastly complex everything is, how many ways you could be wrong, and how insufficient your earlier simple assumptions were. Like yeah, maybe trans people are just mentally ill because there have been a few cases where that seems to be the case. But does that make it okay to deny all of them the agency and dignity of being able to decide who they want to be? Even if we define gender-affirming care as 'harm', we seem fine as a society with people harming themselves with stuff like cigarettes, why are we not fine with people 'harming themselves' with gender-affirming care?
At the end of the day the question you have to ask yourself is: would you rather never be made uncomfortable by this realization that things are more nuanced htan you thought, or would you rather have the most accurate information about the world that you can get? Because you can't have both. Moral/intellectual certainty is a pipe dream, that way lies true evil, because no one cares less about others than someone who is absolutely convinced that they're right/just.
I do this often and it can feel like the bottom of my existence fell out. But I always end up back where I started after using logic and my understanding of the world. It's probably good to reality check yourself every so often
It's good to be unsure. The worst people are the ones who think they know everything. The only universal absolutes should be respect and love for others. Other than that, keep thinking and enquiring and learning.
As a trans person, I have various mental illnesses. None of them is 'being trans', but it's likely some of them are related, particularly gender dysphoria. In regards to your actual question, I'm so glad you're evaluating your beliefs! Everyone should deconstruct and know why they believe the things that they do - and if there's no good reason, to stop believing them - regularly. It's the sign of a curious and humble mind.
It's a good thing to question your beliefs every once in a while. Sometimes people get things wrong, and sometimes ideas need re-evaluated.
The way I look at gay/trans/etc is to take MLK Jr's advice: judge people by the content of their character.