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November 22 - November 30, 2020
For the sake of clarity and honesty, I refer to biologically female teens caught up in this transgender craze as “she” and “her.”
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This is not a clearity or honesty. If you want tonbe clead about a ersons pronoun you ask or defult to neutral. Its disrespectful to the children tondeny them of what they see them as
the government can’t force a healthcare worker to utter a particular pronoun. In America, the government can’t make people say things—not even for the sake of politeness. Not for any reason at all.
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Calling some one by the right pronoun is just the right wayvto go not only for corectness but akso to communicate efficiently. I transistioned, my mom still has isses calling me a guy. In a stire lookig like a dude she called me her. This beyond confused her and messed up interaction afterwards even though i said mom calls me that cause I can be a queen i understand thar peoole make errors in id-ing but the factvis misgendered dogs get better reatment than some trans people
Lucy’s manufactured story of having “always known she was different” and having “always been trans,” her mother later discovered, had been lifted verbatim from the internet.
Did you find the verbatium words n internet sometimes similar thigs carry simular words in how to carry them. When i found being a trabs man a possible thing, i thiught eag this is really hiw i always been and not just me being a freak.
nearly 70 percent—childhood gender dysphoria resolves.9
Its been found that this stat was taken for all gnc kids. Even the one for which 'detransitioned'. Even if children stay as assigned
smartphone.15 Teenage girlhood in America is practically synonymous with the worry that one’s body does not measure up.
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Thats assuming all girls having thar issue not including teen boys because at that age it hell for any one so yeah to ingorge that tennage is a huge thing for all not just girls
Only 12 percent of natal females who identify as transgender have undergone or even desire phalloplasty.23 They have no plans to obtain the male appendage that most people would consider a defining feature of manhood. As
Okay. Clearly not taking into account of how EXPENSIVE bottom surgery is or the multiple surgeies needed over multiple years is key for some. There is also all the risks invole all the hoops one has to go through to be considered. All the time off needed for the surgeries. That's big for me.
Sure do some trans men don't want bottom surgery or another type? Yes, and thats fine. And some people change their mind as they go a long their transistion. I know I did.
And on a further point, manhood is more than a penis.just like there is more to womanhood then having a vigina.
Long before they may have had any romantic or sexual experience at all. Young women judged insufficiently feminine by their peers are today asked outright, “Are you trans?”
No, people who have asked me if I was trans was professionals after I had questions about it. Nonprofessionals just said i was a dyke or ask invasive sexual questions. Could that happen more now a days? Maybe. But i think that is because there is more awareness to being trans.
Jonesing
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No debut so immediately captures the interest of boys and men as the arrival of breasts. The alteration thrusts a young girl under the klieg lights of uncomfortable attention from men her father’s age. Girls
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So isnt that a sgn hthat men need to b taught that UNDEAGE CHILDREN are not sexuaal? That development is a normal thing and cause if the way we decide it is so shame ful and needs to be kept on the downlow that it gets projeced as this way. Boys should learn both ways of developing bodies as should girls. Stop seperating that makes it so unheard of. Stop treating sex as something shameful. Doing so jus festers this idea that its an one minute its a child, the next a peak of deveopent means they are clearly an adult enough to understand everything sexual.
And to say the femake body is made for men is disgusting. It made for the individual. If she happens to like men let it be her way. A basic understanding of respect isnt to oggly your way though woman's chest its to treat all with respect. Thats what should be taught!, RESPECT!
Ritalin for inattention; opioids for pain; Xanax for nerves; Lexapro for the blues; testosterone for female puberty.
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While yes some drugs have been over percribed, the inital need for it isnt justt forva vainnreson. Its for trying to help the individuals cope at normal capacity.
They lived in a liberal coastal city; when in Rome, well, it wasn’t surprising she’d want a toga. “Especially because, at her school, we know of four kids, including my daughter, who are going through this, it looked exactly like a contagion to me,” her father said. “Especially because she never exhibited any discomfort with being a girl throughout her childhood.”
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Yes high school kids follow crowds but just because you couldnt see distress or your trans kid not knowing what they were feeling was distress (cause i felt a lot of it when I was young but had no idea what it was called )it may feel like it just showed up. But if it was taught for all t understand some might not have to go through all that turmoil.
“pansexual” (formerly known as “bi”) to
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Big wrong there. Bisexuals still exist as do pansexual people. You did not do your research.
Activists stormed the Twitter page of PLoS One, the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Public Library of Science that had published Dr. Littman’s paper, accusing her of anti-trans bigotry. They claimed that Dr. Littman had deliberately solicited parent reports from conservative, anti-trans parent groups. (In fact, over 85 percent of the parents self-identified as supporting LGBT rights.)
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The study was bias it was retracted, actually just updated where tge parents were pulled from- all anti trans websites. And the adolescents being questioned on "true" gender dysphoria by their parents was not asking a single adolescent these questions. Parents don't know everything about the their child. A child can hide GD symptoms . I did for example only i didn't know I was because I had no idea what GD was all I knew is that I thought I was a freak compared to others leading to a near fatal suicide attempt that I was able to hide for 8 years when i chose to discolse it to a therapist. So hiding things are possible.
None of the attacks acknowledged that parent report is a standard method for assessing child and adolescent mental health.15 (How else would you obtain the psychological history of a child, if not from parent report?)
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Yes, getting parents imput on a child's mental status is a part of collecting history but ingoring what the child says or heck not even getting the child's perspective is something that is no really dictor would do.
hungrily. I wonder aloud whether inflated collegiate sexual assault statistics haven’t scared adolescent girls off of womanhood entirely,
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You do get that trans folx, expecially if suspected of not being seen as cis by another cis, are at an increased risk of not only extreme physical harm but sexual abuse well?
The pro-anorexia sites resembled a set of videos that had begun colonizing the internet: social media sites of trans influencers, in which natal girls calling themselves “transgender boys” or “trans men” boast of how their lives have improved since they started a course of testosterone. The rush it gives them, the thrill at the “happy trail” of dark hair appearing on their bellies, the dissipation—they insist—of all social anxiety.
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You related eds to trans? Both have treatments, ed being ed treatment and if it's dysphoria it is to transition, usually socally to see if it brings down the internal distress the person dealing with gd. If you actually go through the stages of transition it takes time to 1) come to terms with being trans yourself 2) get courage to display that transition because many people are uncomfortable or feel they have the right to make the trans person uncomfortable. These are things i have experienced
adolescent girls. According to the DSM-5, gender dysphoria in children is a condition defined by the presence of at least six of the following symptoms: A strong desire to be of the other gender or an insistence that one is the other gender A strong preference for cross-dressing or simulating [other gender] attire A strong preference for cross-gender roles in make-believe play or fantasy play A strong preference for the toys, games, or activities stereotypically used or engaged in by the other gender A strong preference for playmates of the other gender A strong rejection of toys, games and
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But try convincing a teenager that something she wants to do carries risks. Imagine telling her that she might not want to damage her breast tissue; that she might one day want to have children and, having birthed those children, to nurse them. It’s a little like informing her the sun will burn out five billion years in the future.
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Okay, you do gt that not all people want children bilogically? I have always been that type of person, not wanting bio children always has been my way. When young i figured I would adopt but even thats changed. Not that i would birth a child but that i don't think children are for me. And that is okay. If someone wants children that is okay but it is not the end all be all. And just because you have tissue to chest feed dosen't mean you actually can or want to. Again producing children is not the end all of being a person.
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You don’t have to be certain you’re transgender in order to go on hormones. In fact, Kaylee adds, going on hormones is “probably the best way to actually tell if you’re trans anyways.”16 You might have heard that testosterone comes with bad side effects—but you’ll rarely hear them mentioned here. YouTube and Insta gurus are about fun, and increased risks of various cancers and prophylactic hysterectomy are certainly not that. The most common side effect of testosterone that gurus talk about is the one that burnishes their trans bona fides: pain. The pain is acknowledged—even conveyed with
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Many trans youtubers go over effects of t. not just the good, which is exciting if that is what you have been searching for since understanding it would take alternative mean, no just injections as implied- you can get t in other forms it just may not be covered by insurance, there are thngs about the risk and if brought to a clinc a doctor would go over ALL risks and benifts of t. Not just positive.
Leelah Alcorn was the deeply depressed seventeen-year-old male-to-female in Ohio who threw himself in front of traffic after his parents made him undergo Christian conversion therapy. Leelah left a suicide note on his Tumblr blog—explicitly blaming his suicide on his parents’ refusal to accept his transgender identity.
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1) Lela was a young woman not a he. 2) her parents cut her off of support and put her in conversion therapy, something proven to be more harmful in short and long term effects on the person in it.
faces. They seem doomed to snag double takes from passersby when they want to—and just as often, when they don’t. Since they almost never undergo the phalloplasty necessary to achieve one of the defining features of manhood, it’s hard not to see their male identities as fragile; a quick trip to a urinal, and the jig is up.
I'm (as of 2022) 8 year in transition, 6 on t and 1 year post op top surgery wise. I pass in now 95 to 99% of the time wht all the time? People make mistakes, even with cis people i know, it really only hurts if the person making the mistake refuses to acknowkedge and continues to misgender and or deadname medispite teling me them that i am male. Otherwise i can brush it off, because like i said mistakes happen.
On another point, if things aren't covered insurance its hard to get. Yes surgery is expensive but consider what the doctor(s) and staff are doing. Its no eay feet. And I'm not just talking SRS any surgery is expensive that wht it is eitheir done bywith through the graces of insurance or if lucky, by your own financial means. Phalloplasty is at minimum 50k and as easly costing 100k once the multi-surgies over multi yearsis done. Not counting time off job orvother stuff needed to heal.
So why would a trans man not seek out to be a 'full flegde' male? Cost, pain, and even fear of not gave something that is realistic brought on mis information or not finalized images/discriptions of a neophallus in early stage. Some men chose nit to take the high stakes phallo surgy and
taught in schools. As a practical matter, this has meant rewriting social studies textbooks and curricula to “out” the likes of Sally Ride, who kept her lesbianism a secret—perhaps because that wasn’t how she wanted to be remembered. She seems to have considered being the first woman in space a little more important.
Teaching abiut major social issues in a school setting is not rewritting history it is including the historybthat is being left out. I never learn about Stonewall till i was about 19 or 20. A big movement that confronts brutality and injustice for a section of a minority community. And ibdidnt learn about the full story of the AIDS crisis (and I am still learning) that completly went out of control because government and health commitiesvjust want people, human being, to suffer and die terrible deaths because of a charastic they can't change. It was only when heterosexuals were getting it that the gov gave a damn. And even then in present times (think mike pence who let his own community be plundge into a massive outbreak) it still hard to getcare for 'the gay diease' based of peoples preference.
As for Sally, she kept up a facade of heterosexual marriage, eventually being with a womab that did overlap in her marrige time, because she knew the climite of things. She hid becausevbeing out was a death sentence. If she was alive she might have just been yeah i am married to a woman. Dosen't mean she would have been doning on the rainbow gear butbshe might have never had to put up a facde just to make it where she did.
spirit….”) The way baby boomers once learned to rattle off state capitals, elementary school kids are now taught today’s gender taxonomy often enough to have committed it to memory. And while gender ideologues insist they are merely presenting an objective ontology, it is hard to miss that they seem to hope kids will pick a fun, “gender-creative”21 option for themselves.
No, books like this are explaining diffrent types of people. Showing that it is normal. If I had it it might have saved the years, and harm, I indured as someone so conflicted because I never fit in. I was not sterotypically feminine nor masculine. I was and still am a little bit of both. But by transiting i have been able to explore myself and finally, although through all the tramuma, retoric, and hate and able to actually live. Even if i am still dealing with all those issues it better dealing with it in an aligned bidy rather than being dead. I'm not pulling that card lightly. I nearly died through my own hands becausevi couldn't handle the dysphoria- before i even knew what transgender even was. It real. Explaining things to kids, that some are different, isnt isn't forcing ideology it showing that the human condition is varied. This is just one variance
All that’s required is the insistence that students display decency, civility, and kindness to their classmates. Follow the Golden Rule. Stand up to bullies. Any singling out of others for their differences—physical, religious, sexual, or otherwise—should be met with neither indulgence nor toleration. Bad behavior should be met with swift punishment.
But that is not the case, given the example above of the for harrased student simply for being gay, that golden rule is bull to be frank. Kids bully for percived differences
Katherine transferred her daughter to a gender clinic that specialized in autism. “That’s when I was told, okay, we needed to put her on puberty blockers”—medications that induce chemical menopause to artificially halt puberty. The gender clinicians stressed that puberty blockers were a way to “buy time” by pressing the “pause button on puberty,” until they could all decide whether Maddie should resume normal puberty as a girl or go straight to cross-sex hormones and become a “man.” They assured Katherine that puberty blockers, such as Lupron, were “perfectly safe” and “well studied.”
What’s more, even if her daughter did not start puberty blockers and instead waited puberty out and then began cross-sex hormones (testosterone), this carried all sorts of risks of its own. Endometrial and ovarian cancer. Hysterectomy.
Cross sex hormones do have risk, just like any drug i might add, for example rusk of cadiovacular isdues are risen to the average male level once on it. And so what if the trans child dosent wang to be carrying a kid and give birth. This trans biy shd is talking about might be in the camo if birthibg not for me- i am in that camp and know if ever pregnant, it will cuse greater issues for me rather than expirence the so called joy.
T dose not cause cancer as of current date. That is a blantet misrepresentation of the data. As for endometriosis, ad to my recoltion of signing every possible health outcome when starting T, i don't think that was on the list.
Angela concluded, “So I think that my daughter is maybe bi, but right now, she seems to have a boyfriend.”
Yah know that biexual date people of whatever gender right? So they happens to be dating a guy, still bi. And if their boyfriend is nonbinary, since you probably wouldn't ask about his gender identity, which is why i am saying him at this time. And if they happen to be dating a girl, guess what still bi. Now you are being biphobic both of you.
this time to help her daughter deal with the anxiety brought on by the death of a kitten. I’m not doubting that the little girl’s anxiety was real, that therapy was a caring response, or that her psychological struggles worsened over time. Indeed, by middle school, Angela’s daughter’s anxiety had risen, and she was engaging in minor cutting. But it is worth noting that a generation ago, mothers’ reactions to their daughters’ anxiety would likely have been to ignore, dismiss, or perhaps admonish. As in, “Don’t you ever hurt yourself. If you’re feeling sad, just tell me.” Or, “Why don’t we take
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Like dear everything holy... minior cutting is serious. Its not rwally minior at all actual it is self harm, something that usual starts small but can evole to other forms and or get worse and to just say eat your feelingsvis terrible. Nthatsbhow food addictiona and eds start.
As for anxiety, like yeah therebis normal anxitey but what is described seems slightly abnormal at minimum and going to therapybto help develop coping skills to prevent worsening symptoms is a good thing. I have terrible anxiety. And while i did gi to theray at 8, mynmind statevwas to let no one know anything about me at all. So i never got really any help.so yeah, everything got worse fromnskin pickung tonhittin self with hammer to cutting.
But because i could still function to a degree, ie average grades, never causeing trouble, etc, i was only found out with all the sever stuff till high school, when the scars stoped fading and just kept adding on. And still then I really didnt let antone know much about me. Over 2 years of nothing befire a change of therapist and longer still before I mentioned anything of true importance. All this beginning with some anxiety.
Gheez parents take distress, no matter how small, seriously
A woman walks into a therapist’s office, dragging her teenage son. “Doctor,” she says. “Please help! My son thinks he’s a chicken.” The son says: “If there is one thing I can tell you about chickens, it’s that we know who we are.” “Where is your proof?” the woman demands of her son. “You have no feathers.” “True,” the son replies. “I went through the wrong puberty.” The woman turns to the therapist: “You see what I mean? He’s lost his mind!” The therapist replies: “You’re the one arguing with a chicken.” Yes, it’s an absurdist joke. But this is, roughly, the scenario created by “affirmative
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Another form of the im an attack helicopter. It is stupid, and not equvalinet thing.
“I would say being attuned and supportive means you follow the child’s lead. So if the child wants to go by a new name and pronoun, then you follow that. And names and pronouns—the importance of them cannot be over-emphasized,” Dr. Kaufman told me. “That is something that really shows support. And even if it’s challenging for the parent to change names or pronouns, it’s very important that they work at it.” “Why?” I asked her—wondering if these poor parents hadn’t already been troubled enough. “Imagine if someone started to call you by a male name and pronoun,” she said. “It wouldn’t feel like
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The child may have been called x all their life (they might have even had nicknames thry went by) so just go with how tgey want to be adressed. If it is a masculine name, deal with it. I'm 8 years in my transition ans have parents struggling to get just the first letterbof mg name out. Hich i might add is the same as my deadname so shouldn't be hard right? They have had no issue refering or reminding me of old names i didn't use for years, or nickmanes that had popped up only a few times in old life but sure call me Mark is just too damn complicated . Or how i have people move the goal post on when they would call me by my appropriate name, that is utter and tottally disrespectful.
To say poor parents is pathetic. Utterly pathetic cause it takes all the look at the kid who must be under massive distress and force them to ingore their feelings and act like a parent to appease the brattyness of their adult parent. Like seriously when will this so called author consider that some kids don't have the lyxery to come out very young. Be it not know the words, were ingored, threanted, etc. And now that they have reached dire or were outed levels of distress these hildren are seeking help from their own family only to be dismissed, not at all at all thinking what emotional pain, maybe even physical too, going on through that kid's mind and their perception of the world
can’t convert someone out of being gay. “So I would tell these parents, we can’t convert someone to being cisgender. They are who they are. And your choice is to learn to accept this and support your child, or if you don’t, what I see coming in the future is, this child is going to be very mentally unhealthy and unhappy and will likely—if they’re not already—become depressed, anxious, not function well, not being able to get on with life; not do well in school, not have friends. May be suicidal—may try to commit suicide. May be self-harming. May kill themselves. That’s what you can expect.”
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Actually yes, this is the case for some. I am one of those kids. At 12 ish i attempted suicide beacuse of the mental distress and how I viewed myself as a freak when i had no words to describe the way i felt. Why i felt so alinated by puberty. Why as soon as breast buds began i wish i could be diagnosed with cancer of any sort just too remove any of the female parts. And guess what the words were? Gendr dysphoria.
The legitimate Dr. Kaufman is right. Affirming a child wanting to expression, even if it turns out that they want to be a he, and have a name that fits the way he sees himself, do it. Help him cope as he can.
weltanschauung
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I walked away with several distinct impressions, including this: Of all the brutality and psychological scarring inflicted by the Holocaust, among the most abject of its survivors were those who spent years living under an assumed identity. I remember one woman’s testimony, in particular. Her parents had hidden her with a Catholic family who had agreed to take her in for a fee. Hastily taught the rosary and the Our Father and given a saint’s name—I think it was “Mary”—for the duration of the Holocaust, she pretended to be someone else, never telling a soul who she really was. The artifice
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Guess what that is probably surviers guilt not an identity crisis where religion is not bilogical, you are brought in to it. Christians tend to bring up fellow Christians and so forth with other religions. Gender identity is who you go to bed as, but the way it is expressed is through social cultural means.
The rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation for transgender youth, adolescents, and even adults are indeed startlingly high.16 Nearly every study confirms this. In 2014, the Williams Institute put out a widely cited study that reported the suicide attempts among transgender and non-conforming adults at 41 percent. If true, this would be a ghastly statistic. For the U.S. population as a whole the rate of attempted suicide is 0.6 percent, and 10 to 20 percent for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. There are a few problems with the study, however. One is that it is
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Self reporting bad? When you have people sekf report that they detransitioned and their percived reasons why? Utter shit. It is self report on depression beinb linked to depression too but we believe those stats. We have seem thd stats you have provided so far aganist trand kids, expecially afab ones, and by your reasoning it should be thrown out
“homosexual transsexualism” (child-onset, effeminate boys or masculine girls who would grow into gay men and women; think drag queens) and “autogynephilic transsexualism” (adolescent-onset, heterosexual men who are aroused by the idea or image of themselves dressed as women; think men who transition to female in their fifties and are married to women). It was his discovery of “autogynephiles,” a term he coined,
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This theory has been disproved, and has been harmful to the trans community. Some trans folk can express themselves young as their true gender. Others can not, dosen't matter the reason.
Yes, there are straight trans people so they might have been considered gay when pre transition. But then to go in that some women who come out later in life but identify as an orentation including being attracted to woman in the wlw way, is just crazy to asume they want sex with themsevles .
One reason that the existence of autogynephilia matters has to do with women’s safe spaces. If transgender-identified biological men are completely uninterested in women sexually, one might argue that however uncomfortable it may be, there is little danger in admitting them to women’s private spaces. But if some transgender men are heterosexual, aroused by the idea of themselves dressed as women and generally by the female form, the nature of the debate shifts and the possibility of admitting trans-identified men into women’s safe spaces begins to seem untenable.
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Ugh. This just reaks of them gays are going to get them same gender people. Its ilegel to assult someone no matter what the gender. If someone is going to assult then that person honestly wouldn't care if that person was in an opposite sex space or not.
On another point, trans identify man? That's terf speak, that person would be 1. A woman or 2. A trans woman .
The erasure of this distinction has arguably enabled and accelerated the opioid crisis, with doctors behaving like vendors, rushing to meet an existing demand rather than evaluating its appropriateness and sometimes frustrating it. “You’re in pain? Here’s some Percocet.” “You’re feeling dysphoric? Here’s a script for testosterone. Here’s a letter for surgery.”
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Yes compare a seriously addictive drug, which can help pain for temporary time. What was different of opiates to hrt is that pharmacy companies pushed opiates knowing full well that it was highly addictive but said they weren't. Hrt on the other hand is a synthetic hormone, like insuline, to treat gd. Something that has been studied by people who don't wait for the young gd kid to transition untill they hit adulthood meaning they would require more surgery (if they choose ).
Knowing on zucker's approach, it bascially a conversion and if all fails to be cishet then settle for gay. If that fails reluently after much more proving grace them with care.
But what is gender identity? It has no diagnostic markers, no measurable signs, no blood test to confirm it. It is a feeling—an attitude. That does not mean that it does not exist. But it does mean that, like many psychiatric ailments, it poses challenges to diagnosis and treatment.
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So are you going to ingore other mental disorders that haven't found a concrete physical reason for existance in 100% of the concurrence? Depression is one of those. So is schizophrenia and bipolar. Even autism. While there are some markers of genes there is not a "all person with x have this y gene coding for x" for mental health disorders. Symptoms for some conditions are the only verified through patient reporting. Talk to a doc and learn something.
A lone sympathizer with parents facing the predicament of suddenly trans-identifying teens, Marchiano began counseling them in 2016. She avoids conversion-therapy bans by not seeing adolescents. Very often, parents have told me she is the only therapist they could find who didn’t insist they immediately affirm their daughters’ self-diagnoses.
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Nice way of saying she supports and does conversion therapy and would toture miniors into the same if she could, but good thing that there are some decent laws around.
Marchiano believes suicide statistics are often employed by gender therapists in a manner that is both irresponsible and unethical. “It’s essentially emotional blackmail,” she told me. “It’s being used to force parents’ hands to do something that they don’t feel comfortable with.” But there’s something else she’s even more worried about: Insisting that an adolescent who doesn’t transition is likely to kill herself—that notion can also easily fall into the symptom pool, too. It may have already. “When you tell a group of highly suggestible adolescent females that if they don’t get a certain
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What the fuck. Suicde contagions do occur i will admit that but useual after there is an event, such as a student in 1 school killing themselves and then copycat suicides occur.
But what goes on with gd kids who would rather not live because of the distress of the fact their bodies dosen't match what they know themselves to be, is enough of fact, like severe depression that suicide needs to be taken seriously.
Example being, my 1st suicide and almost died. No one knew. Why? Cause i couldn't stand being a freak, which turned out to be gd manifesting. When i have told therapist about thoughts of death, a saftey plan was set up. You know communication much needed to keep safe and dicuss that gd issues were extremely intense that a another day with it was worse outcome than being dead. It wasn't a tactic.
But it turned out that the problem had come in a slightly different package: six feet tall, pancake makeup blurring a stubbled jaw, two breasts grafted onto a muscular torso like add-ons. Weeks later I headed to the Nordstrom to confirm my friend’s story. The employee was elegant, attentive and professional, fluttering around the floor in a tulle skirt, pink manicured nails trailing her every gesture like streamers. But there was no mistaking that this lingerie specialist was male. “What would have happened if I hadn’t been there?” my friend asked me, again and again. “What if I had sent her
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So you say you are insupport of adult trans people but here you go on bashing a trans/gnc person just for them doing their job. You make it horrible as the way they are described and you wonder wht treatment at a young at a young age is okay? Testosterone is a hormone that makes many changes and those who have had t pumped through their bodies and identify as a woman its just insulting. Show respect, your just make the retail job holder seem terrible because if something they can't control
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(By 2020, 50 percent of students at Evergreen were identifying as LGBTQ or “questioning.”28)
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Questiong dosen't always mean will be gay and/or trans. It means that they are exploring. So what if its a high number of students in a high school id-ing as LGBT? Its nothing wtong with it, just a veration of the human condition.
Realizing that today’s coeds are, to put it mildly, psychologically fragile, colleges have hired a battalion of mental health counselors. (Columbia University has fifty-six.) They specialize in things like “eating disorders” and “trauma support” but also “sexual and gender identity issues.” In fact, it’s possible to sign up with a college counselor wanting to talk about, say, depression, and discover that her other expertise is “LGBTQ.” So you’re feeling sad. What could be the source? Spoiler alert: you’re probably trans.
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You do grt it that college student orentated health care is a good thing right? Why must drugs cost so much? Just thd ay America is? Or are you going to say capitalism, cause all drugs are gastly expensive and having a copay can still be too much for some. As fir the councilors you do realize that the transition to college is big, extremly big. Some mental health conditions start in those college age times. Mine did and I am not talking about gd. If a school can help its students to make learning and adjustments better I am all fir it. The section just screams a loud of conceding trash that isdegrading to real suffering.
Meredith’s mother knew her daughter was technically an adult, legally able to make these decisions; only she wasn’t in the best frame of mind to do so. “We are not opposed to her transitioning,” she pleaded to the dean of students. “We are opposed to her doing it NOW.”
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Then when is it a good time? Your time? What about Mich's needs. As an adult, they can choose what they want to do with their body. And by saying your supportive but don't want them to transistion then no you are not supportive.
Testosterone comes in a variety of forms, including gels and patches. But if you’re up for something really edgy, there’s also the self-administered intramuscular shot. This testifies to the world, loud as Stentor, that you’re nothing like your mother. You’re not even a girl. And you’re not messing around.
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T injections are the cheapest wat to get t. Its generally the formnof t covered by insurance. Tge other forms tend to be iut of pocket and that adds up. Its not to be edgy. Would you call an insulin user edgy for shooting up insulin? I didnt think so. Just because gd is in the dsm, dosent mean medical procedures can't help.
shook you and depression that wrapped you in chains have relaxed, relented, drifted away. Many of the girls caught up in this epidemic may be unconsciously self-medicating. They call their distress “gender dysphoria.” But what they may be treating is anxiety and depression; most have battled one or both.
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Uh, depression and anxitey can co ocurr with gd and gd is a condition in the dsm. Looking up tge dsm 5 to see the updated information you don't acknowkedge
There are also pains and inconveniences that come with testosterone. We’ve seen that vaginal atrophy is a problem. There are also muscle aches, painful cramping due to endometriosis, increased sweating, moodiness, and aggression. The long-term effects include heightened rates of diabetes, stroke, blood clots, cancer, and, as we’ve seen, heart disease. In general, mortality risk rises.
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There are risk to any drug. Cite your source cause on the informed concent papers, while not everything is know, to say cancer and other things like greater risk of death is just putting fear because thst many papers of affects of t did not mention those. It acknowledged that there is an increase for cardiovascular stuff but not above cisgender males level, so thats one thibg is false
