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Please, please go read what the actual M.D.s and psychologists who study this topic for a living have to say on the subject.
Not a news article or a blog post, I want you to go to any reputable medical association, find their official policy, and read the research papers listed in the references.
The difference is that the woman highlighted in that article had complaints about symptoms she was experiencing. Not complaints from other people about who she was. We've also learned a lot more since the late 19th century.
The cherry on top is the last sentence of the article you linked:
You can't refer to the fact that science progresses over time as an excuse to ignore the current state of the art, that's asinine.
I'm nonbinary. Actual research studies on the efficacy of hormone therapy for nonbinary people only started getting published like 8 years ago, ~20 years too late for me to get on puberty blockers.
I had to wait decades for the medicine that saved me from dysphoria and depression, you don't get to wield your ignorance on the topic as an argument against other people getting the care their doctors recommend.
Saying that we need to look into the "biological root" of transgender identity is like saying "we need to look into the biological root of regressives.
The problem is that such statements are political because they pathologies something that is human diversity.
We should also say, and look at the evidence of other cultures who have had trans people. Like native Americans, who treated us with respect. in those societies there were lower suicide rates.
Even among children, when socially supported the suicide rate goes down with social support.
What you're conflating is the suicide/depression associated with being treated differently to your identity.
Hence the slogan "Trans rights are human rights". We don't need "accomodation", we just need the same right to bodily autonomy that's afforded to everyone else. Opposition to trans rights is just the tip of the same spear currently stabbing at women's rights, gay folks' rights, and minority rights in general.
Whether or not other people are "on board" with the individual right to self-determination is entirely irrelevant. Either trans kids can get the medicine they and their doctors agree is best, or our government has pulled a China and taken the right to make your own medical decisions away from you. There is no middle ground.
Just like how finding the gay gene was going to bring equality to gays, right?
No, I'm afraid I can't take you seriously. You're "just asking questions" and about issues that were settled over 40 years ago and pretending at reasonable dissent based on nothing more substantial than 90's talk radio talking points.
Again, please read an actual research paper from a reputable medical or psychological association. Take your time with it and google all the $5 science words that aren't familiar to you. You'll learn a lot more that way.
The opposition is because you're treating us as a condition to be fixed instead of who we are. You're essentially saying, or it at least is coming off as such, that "you're wrong, I know who you are better than you. It doesn't matter what historically has worked to make life better for you, and it doesn't matter what your lived experience is, I know better than you. If we can just numb the part that makes you different, I won't have to look at people like you anymore. Wouldn't you rather my cure?"
Pretending like people are a condition to be fixed is why you get pushback. Some people are trans, and some experience gender dysphoria. Making dysphoria less painful in some hypothetical future sense doesn't make us not who we are. Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Telling them they're wrong because it makes you uncomfortable isn't going to be popular with anyone who knows or supports any trans person.
Buddy, I'm not attacking you. I'm explaining. That's why you're getting pushback. Take from that what you want, but that's how you're coming across in my view.
We have documented historical evidence of trans people existing in society for at least three thousand years. If trans folks have existed in every kind of human society imaginable, then it's pants-on-head stupid to suppose trans identities are anything other than just a natural part of the human condition.
The only reason it's an "issue" is because fucking idiots make it an issue.
If it's a "neurological issue" that might have "other avenues for treatment," those avenues for treatment are ones that should be applied to the fucking idiots to get them to stop being fucking idiots. They're the ones with neurological issues that cause problems for themselves and others.
No, compromising with conservatives does nothing but give them more power and the world further into fascism.
This is not compromising with conservatives. It’s compromising with popular attitude towards the conversation. This is the problem with progressives right now, you contradict yourselves, arent you supposed to be a movement of the people for the people?
I know you aren’t but this is what many progressives claim so maybe solve that internal contradiction if you want to appeal to the masses. People may be stupid but they can see the anti populist attitude of the progressives and this is why you don’t have their support.
Hmmm, who also wanted to go with the populist values at the expense of human rights? Nazis. We want all humans to be equal, not throw trans people under the bus to be "popular". Which itself is a lie, politicians that stand for trans rights are more popular to most people.
But have you tried just minding your own business?
While we are doing this, we might also find out how to treat left handed people.
Why do you feel like permanently altering the brain to make it tolerate the body would be a preferable alternative to permanently altering the body to make the brain happier?
Or you can trust what real trans people say about their (our) existence, you buttwaffle
I agree that allowing political conservatism is the best solution we have at the moment. But I disagree with not investigating it as a neurological issue that might have other, also effective, avenues for treatment with ultimately the person choosing which treatment is best for them. Hell the declassification of conservatism as a mental health issue was politically motivated without sufficient evidence to prove that in some cases conservatism might not simply be its own thing rather than a symptom.