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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Feel free to suggest other flairs, but I thought this article could be described as "wholesome" since it's sane and explicitly supportive of LGB people.

From the article:

Studies also consistently show an association between childhood gender dysphoria and homosexuality and bisexuality in adulthood. An important statistic to keep in mind is that of the “gender non-conforming” or gender-dysphoric children who go through the natural puberty related to their natal sex, approximately 70 per cent go on to realise they are gay, lesbian or bisexual.

So, to affirm a 13 year old with recent gender dysphoria as “trans” when they are in fact gay could certainly leave therapists open to accusations of conversion therapy after the client has completed adolescence.

This observation is sorely missing from new articles, even the ones that bother to mention the ways that gender identity ideology is harmful to LGB people, so I was glad to see it in this article.

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[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My therapist told me that most of the therapists she knows refuse to see transgender patients for exactly this reason. So the Hegelian “conversion therapy ban” ends up hurting trans people doubly by making access to mental healthcare much more difficult.

[–]Dromedary 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

And if anyone needs mental health care.. hoo boy. The dysphoria is only part of it, they have more issues than a newsstand.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh really? That's fascinating. Man, I'd be curious to see statistics on that... but it'd be hard to get them because the topic is made so taboo by the dialogue demonization "no argument" mentality that the transgender movement established. Sigh.

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

I suffered from a bit of gender dystopia as I was going through puberty. Turns out I was just confused about being attracted to both sexes.