1. If you claim to be medical, where is proof that gender dysphoria is inherent to transgenderism? DSM-5 changed "gender identity disorder" diagnosis to "gender dysphoria" to depathologize transgenderism.
"This shift reflects recognition that the disagreement between birth gender and identity may not necessarily be pathological if it does not cause the individual distress, said Robin Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist and co-author of the psychology textbook "Abnormal Psychology" (Worth Publishers, 2009). For instance, many transgender people — those who identify with a gender different than the one they were assigned at birth — are not distressed by their cross-gender identification and should not be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, Rosenberg said."
(source: https://www.livescience.com/37087-dsm-gender-dysphoria.html)
These changes caused a rather negative reaction from transmeds, but why should we listen to random bloggers instead of doctors?
2. Your movement is known for siding with unscientific people if they go against tucutes. For example, Blaire White. Yes, the "puberty blockers are hrt" Blaire White, the "hrt sterilizes people, but now I'm going to have children" Blaire White. You also spread rumors that there are cases of "mass detransition" because of non dysphoric people going on hrt, which is completely false (see my earlier post with 9 studies covering up data from 2005 to 2018 https://comrade-lecter.dreamwidth.org/2648.html). You also support an outdated statement that 85% of trans-identifying kids grow out of their dysphoria, which is used to justify denying dysphoric kids puberty blockers. While in reality the study it's based on is older than most of you and lumps dysphoric children together with gnc children. Moderns data suggests most dysphoric kids continue being dysphoric.
"55. The fifth intervenor, the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service in Victoria
is a specialist unit comprising of a team from multiple disciplines including
Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Endocrinology, Gynaecology, Nursing and
Speech Pathology. Since its commencement in 2003, the Gender Service has
received 710 patient referrals including 126 between 1 January 2017 and
7 August 2017.
56. 96 per cent of all patients who were assessed and received a diagnosis of
Gender Dysphoria by the 5th intervenor from 2003 to 2017 continued to
identify as transgender or gender diverse into late adolescence. No patient who
had commenced stage 2 treatment had sought to transition back to their birth
assigned sex."
(source: https://growinguptransgender.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/602fd-rekelvin30november2017.pdf)
Why do you put ideology over the medical side of things?
3. If you don't believe that gender is anyhow connected to gender roles, why don't you call out enough, for example, artists who draw trans males as stereotypically masculine and trenders as fem/gnc? I know it's officially discouraged by the community, but yet these drawings gather more uncritical notes than any criticism. Same goes for harassment of irl gnc trans people. One of my favourite porn bloggers, a man who was on hrt for a while already, was called a trender for referring to his genitals as a "boy pussy". It all breeds a really unhealthy attitude to self love, as if it's something only a trender is capable of.
4. Many people affiliated with your community (myself included) experienced worsening of their symptoms. Some of you seem to be practicing self stigmatization to validate yourself as a "true" transgender. I saw a genuinely dysphoric trans man going back to she/her pronouns and female identity because he was denied therapy and felt like a trender, I saw a trans man feeling guilty for enjoying PIV sex, and many people talking about how their dysphoria got more severe since they joined discourse. I didn't see anything like that happening on such a global scale outside of your community.
Maybe I'll add something else to it, maybe not, so far I think it covers up all.
"This shift reflects recognition that the disagreement between birth gender and identity may not necessarily be pathological if it does not cause the individual distress, said Robin Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist and co-author of the psychology textbook "Abnormal Psychology" (Worth Publishers, 2009). For instance, many transgender people — those who identify with a gender different than the one they were assigned at birth — are not distressed by their cross-gender identification and should not be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, Rosenberg said."
(source: https://www.livescience.com/37087-dsm-gender-dysphoria.html)
These changes caused a rather negative reaction from transmeds, but why should we listen to random bloggers instead of doctors?
2. Your movement is known for siding with unscientific people if they go against tucutes. For example, Blaire White. Yes, the "puberty blockers are hrt" Blaire White, the "hrt sterilizes people, but now I'm going to have children" Blaire White. You also spread rumors that there are cases of "mass detransition" because of non dysphoric people going on hrt, which is completely false (see my earlier post with 9 studies covering up data from 2005 to 2018 https://comrade-lecter.dreamwidth.org/2648.html). You also support an outdated statement that 85% of trans-identifying kids grow out of their dysphoria, which is used to justify denying dysphoric kids puberty blockers. While in reality the study it's based on is older than most of you and lumps dysphoric children together with gnc children. Moderns data suggests most dysphoric kids continue being dysphoric.
"55. The fifth intervenor, the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service in Victoria
is a specialist unit comprising of a team from multiple disciplines including
Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Endocrinology, Gynaecology, Nursing and
Speech Pathology. Since its commencement in 2003, the Gender Service has
received 710 patient referrals including 126 between 1 January 2017 and
7 August 2017.
56. 96 per cent of all patients who were assessed and received a diagnosis of
Gender Dysphoria by the 5th intervenor from 2003 to 2017 continued to
identify as transgender or gender diverse into late adolescence. No patient who
had commenced stage 2 treatment had sought to transition back to their birth
assigned sex."
(source: https://growinguptransgender.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/602fd-rekelvin30november2017.pdf)
Why do you put ideology over the medical side of things?
3. If you don't believe that gender is anyhow connected to gender roles, why don't you call out enough, for example, artists who draw trans males as stereotypically masculine and trenders as fem/gnc? I know it's officially discouraged by the community, but yet these drawings gather more uncritical notes than any criticism. Same goes for harassment of irl gnc trans people. One of my favourite porn bloggers, a man who was on hrt for a while already, was called a trender for referring to his genitals as a "boy pussy". It all breeds a really unhealthy attitude to self love, as if it's something only a trender is capable of.
4. Many people affiliated with your community (myself included) experienced worsening of their symptoms. Some of you seem to be practicing self stigmatization to validate yourself as a "true" transgender. I saw a genuinely dysphoric trans man going back to she/her pronouns and female identity because he was denied therapy and felt like a trender, I saw a trans man feeling guilty for enjoying PIV sex, and many people talking about how their dysphoria got more severe since they joined discourse. I didn't see anything like that happening on such a global scale outside of your community.
Maybe I'll add something else to it, maybe not, so far I think it covers up all.
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