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[–]Nona_Biba 36 insightful - 4 fun36 insightful - 3 fun37 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

LMAO at the people at 2x comparing this to trying to weed out muslims and jews based on looks. Honey....Most transwomen do NOT pass that well. Even the famous well passing ones are heavily made up and utilize all the best filters and camerawork. There is ONE that I probably wouldn't be able to tell if I met him in person- and he's had tons of surgeries. Something the average homeless person probably won't be able to get. It'll be easier than you think to take one look at a transwoman and realize that they are male vs what religion they are.

And SMH at all the self hating women that think having some facial hair means that they would be denied housing in a female shelter. I think most of us have had an old Aunt Edna who had a few whiskers on her chin...But even as children we ~somehow~ knew she was a woman! For the love of god have a TINY bit more faith in your fellow humans.

[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tangentially, I found this from your link. It probably deserves its own post. I wonder what happened to the study they mentioned or if it's still ongoing. https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/20/transgender-youth-doctors-clinics/

Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, for example, opened its trans clinic just four years ago but already has 500 patients — and a four-month waiting list. Seattle Children’s Hospital opened its clinic in October and immediately got scores of calls. Olson-Kennedy’s clinic, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, is the country’s largest, treating 725 trans youth from across the western US. Five hundred of those patients are Olson-Kennedy’s.

Her youngest patient is 3.

“It’s not OK to do nothing.”

Not all doctors agree with the approach of Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues. Some think young patients will grow out of their gender dysphoria, or that children should wait until they are 18 to make critical gender decisions. Many would simply like to see data on whether delaying puberty and allowing children to transition at younger ages is safe and healthy for them in the long run.

Olson-Kennedy is hoping to oblige. In 2015, she and three other leading trans youth doctors received the first NIH grant given to study transgender youth. The $5.7 million, five-year study will look at nearly 300 youth, some who received puberty-blocking hormones and others who took masculinizing or feminizing hormones after puberty. Teams at children’s hospitals in L.A., San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago have recruited patients and are now collecting data to evaluate the effect of treatment on mental health and determine how safe the treatments are.

The doctors think the study will prove that early treatment and puberty-blocking lead to far better long-term outcomes, making it easier for doctors and parents to accept that approach.

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

I am not sure I would trust results from a researcher so obviously biased.