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[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

healthcare professionals failing and harming people who have gender dysphoria or identify as trans

I feel like there's a huge historical correlation there across medical fields, often because of trends in surgery, meds, and diagnostic criteria. The list is loooong (orthopedic surgeries that don't relieve pain, meds whose side-effects are more severe than the condition they treat/are highly addictive, diagnoses that are going through a popularity surge but are meaningless for the condition at hand). Not to place all the blame on the medical/psych establishment, but . . . trans procedures are lucrative procedures.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's almost like the goal is to just cause less harm when treating people during the course of 'helping' them. Do you think that really is the case?

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that's sometimes the case now, especially in orthopedics (because of the large amount of data they now have on what works or doesn't work, as well as a better idea of how MRI results can be poor predictors of pain). But in other fields, I'm not so sure . . . I think it really varies.