The conservative movement has built its case against gender-affirming care on the authority of anachronistic, faulty clinical research.
The conservative movement has built its case against gender-affirming care on the authority of anachronistic, faulty clinical research.
You’re being intellectually dishonest. If someone is born with 4 fingers in one hand, we know it’s a defect. If someone is born without genitals we know it’s a defect. Especially if it affects their proper functioning.
If there was nothing wrong with transgender people they wouldn’t suffer great psychological pain and they wouldn’t require extensive medical treatment in order to physically align themselves with their perceived self in such a way that is not possible without modern day medicine. If this was not a medical condition of some sort there would be a biological adaptation that allowed people to change ther genitalia like many animals do.
But look I won’t engage in this argument further, once the mental gymnastics and the picking and twisting of every word starts I’m out. It’s not arguing in good faith, it’s simply turtling up to avoid engaging with the self evident realities.
I know why you do it, but it’s not gonna help in the long run.
Trans people, like gay people faced suicide because their family and society being assholes to them. When trans people are supported their rate of suicide fall off.
That makes sense. But does that mean that if transgender individuals had support then they would have no need to transition at all?
No, it means they don’t feel hopeless. The dysphoria is still there, which is remediated by some form of transition. Social, hrt, surgery.