I suspect one day we’ll realize that gender dysphoria is a symptom of complex, deeper, unrelated issues. Those who rushed to put kids on a path of lifelong medicalization just to slap a bandaid on merely the symptoms should rightly be remembered as the monsters they are.
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“I suspect one day we’ll realize that”
What you MEAN is you HOPE that in the future, actual research will validate your side, not mock it, like now. Well, if that happens, you’ll be on the side of the Correct.
Until then, you just have your baseless bigotry.
…dis gender, dat gender, whatever gender forever.
Seems that the only form of dysphoria is being experiencened by you, touchgrassforever:
Psychological.
Trans people are certainly living in your head rent free in perpetuity, OP…!
I suspect one day we’ll realize that gender dysphoria is a symptom of complex, deeper, unrelated issues.
I suspect you’re wrong.
Lots of people want science to back up their bigotry. Some, like terffy here, hope it will do so in the future, others, like Bell Curve asshole Charles Murray and all the others yelling “science says there are only two genders!” pretend it does now. They are always wrong.
Let’s pretend for a moment that this is true.
No matter how much that some on the right might portray it as cruel experimentation á la Josef Mengele, a better comparison would be ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy, AKA “Shock Treatment”). While largely forgotten today, during my childhood it had a bad reputation, with all the associated horror stories. The truth is that when it saw common use, it was over-prescribed and occasionally inappropriately prescribed. Sometimes it was done incorrectly, especially early on before research got a handle on how to do it properly, resulting in permanent damage and/or trauma. It also didn’t help its reputation that, in the US at least, electrocution was a common form of execution. This still saw use not because doctors were evil bastards (okay, a few isolated cases…) but because sometimes, it worked . Today the things which ECT was used to treat have other, better treatments, but because not everything works the same for everyone, it still exists as a backup option, and is safer than it used to be. Even if this was an ECT-like situation, it’s still the best possible option which currently exists, and the occasional detransitioner horror story isn’t a good enough reason not to make use of it, because it’s also irresponsible to just leave people to suffer and maybe die just because the treatment isn’t ideal.
Of course, this is all pretending that this turns out to be true in some unknown future time. What if it’s not? What if the better treatment isn’t available for centuries, how does it help anyone alive today?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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