Breast Mourning

submitted by Musky from i.imgur.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The reason gender affirmation treatment has become the standard way of treating gender dysphoria, is because is has vastly better outcomes wrt mental health including suicidal ideation.

Dealing with the mocking such as the sort of posts you see here a lot, does put a different kind of pressure on transgender people. So there are external influences that can affect depression and suicidal ideation after the fact.

One of the downsides of parts of the world with heavy metal pollution in the water or less than ideal genetic variation in the residents.

[–]Vulptex 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Gender affirmation is just denial. In order to have a real solution we need to have a real cure.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Gender affirmation is just denial.

It has the best outcomes.

In order to have a real solution we need to have a real cure.

Until we can grow a new body that matches the brain and connect it up, we'll have to make do with what we can do that has the best outcomes.

[–]jet199 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What do you mean a body which matches the brain?

Trans people don't have different brains to anyone else if their sex and sexuality.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180619/

The only brain difference between trans and everyone else is they are disassociated from their bodies.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230954-600-transgender-people-have-different-brain-activity-when-touched/

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not all psychology can be measured with magnetoencephalography. Only rough activity of large areas of the brain.

It's all in there though.

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think they're talking about the fMRI data that is essentially useless garbage. Those scans detect brain activity in dead fish.