At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged

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[–]SneakyBishop 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

These people are sick:

According to Dr. Ehrensaft, a baby girl tearing barrettes out of her hair repeatedly is supposedly sending a “gender message” about her true identity as a trans boy.

Quote from the article:

The Gender Dysphoria Alliance focuses on people who detransition, regret their transition, or desist from it. Other groups in the field include 4thWaveNow and Canadian Gender Report (also known as GCCan), whose president, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, shared her story with Newsweek readers in 2021:

In my early 20s, I became depressed and gender dysphoric after years of obsessing over identity issues. Finally, I thought I saw my route forward: the total transformation of medical transition, to live as a man. I had the most supportive possible environment for transitioning: easy access to hormones, an affirming community and insurance coverage. What I didn't have was a therapist who could help me scrutinize the underlying issues I had before I undertook serious medical decisions. Instead, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and given the green light to start transition by my doctor on the first visit. I started my transformation with cross-sex hormones injections. Four months later, I had my breasts removed in the masculinizing surgical procedure known as "top surgery." The day I got my first testosterone shot, I wept with joy. I thought I had discovered my path to self-actualization as a transgender man. One year later, I would be curled in my bed, clutching my double-mastectomy scars and sobbing with regret.

Hope this gets wider coverage and when people push back against irreversible medical "treatment" they aren't tarred and feathered for having an opinion counter to the current popular (dangerous) trend.

[–]Haylstorm 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Reminds me a lot of the Bell case in the UK. Basically said the same thing about the lack of pushback leading them down that path. It's sad that the same thing keeps happening.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The complete lack of vetting is shocking. It seems they're setting up the system for the small minority of people who will persistently be trans their whole life where transition is their least undesirable solution to the disphoria at the expense of the majority where such thoughts will desist after puberty and the kid gets used to their adult body.

I think there's more to the trans thing than simply gender dysphoria. I think kids are terrified of growing up and going through puberty and adults are simply enabling the coddling of a generation. It's like when you have a puppy and you get them fixed young they don't mature into an adult dog personality wise and stay as a kind of perpetual puppy.

[–]FourteenDigitz 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your second paragraph hits the nail on the head. Puberty blockers just prove it. They went from being used to prevent serious long-term health issues from precocious puberty that outweighed the possible side-effects of the drugs, to being used because people just don’t want to go through puberty, which is literally tantamount to not wanting to grow up.

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

Seriously, in cases like these pushback isn't transphobia, it's trying to get to the root of your problem to fix it. Look at Tavistock being sued by over 1000 families for putting them on a medical pathway. More of these families would've been helped with their kid having a regular therapist and talking through their issues. Now they're stuck with some lifelong issues because someone was overeager about forcing them on that path, they're the adult they should act like it. Which sometimes means being the bad guy and saying no/after you've had proper therapy to fix the other issues you have going on.

Everyone would benefit then, the people who will remain trans might have some other issues sorted while being put on the right pathway and everyone else will be dropped on the medical side.