Swedish health authorities are limiting access to puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors, citing the presence of adolescent mental health problems that may be driving their gender and body dysphoria.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 15 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 4 fun16 insightful - 5 fun -  (14 children)

“psychological support to help youth live with the healthy body they were born with.”

That’s the most important part of the story. They’re not only banning puberty blockers and hormones, they’re recognising that this whole gender identity issue is a mental health issue and not a “born in the wrong body” issue.

And as it’s Sweden, the cope will have to run deep if anyone is going to claim it’s a far-right plot.

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

Something something Sweden Democrats fault and they're clearly influencing this I'd bet.

[–]jacques1102 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This is what it should be doing.Trying to get people to accept who they were biologically born as instead of feeding the delusions of people who can never be the opposite sex no matter what.It's really odd to me how the gender issue is legit the only issue where we're suppose to believe someone was trapped inside the wrong body.Nobody looks at split personality disorder and claims"It's two people living inside the wrong body."

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Largely because psychiatrists were free to doubt the existence of “multiple personalities” and there is still considerable debate around the issue - the spike in diagnoses (sought and given) after the release of the novel and film Sybil is something worth mentioning too (that pesky social contagion issue cropping up again). Had psychiatry treated Gender Dysphoria along similar lines we would not be having the issues we have now, the trouble is they didn’t and they allowed the identitarians to run amok unchallenged.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

This is not the first time Sweden has done something sensible that other countries have failed to do. Sweden never had a lockdown - one of the few such cases in the world. I criticise Sweden a lot, but mad respect to them for not mutilating mentally ill teenagers and for not imprisoning their citizens in their own homes.

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Basically said mask wearing was kinda pointless too. Only really saw it at Stockholm (at the airport/station). Was really weird to see at first after being used to everyone wearing one where I am.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Super based. My respect for Sweden shot up exponentially in 2020 and 2021. The government did consider vaccine mandates but then abandoned that idea.

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah the only thing that I can think of when I was there was stopping some events, but even then saying they 'stopped' them is kind of an exaggeration. From memory is was mostly super reduced capacity for venues which was a bit sad for hockey watching plans lol.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't mind reducing capacity for large scale events during pandemics, but they do suck. But at least there were no lockdowns or mandates. That's saner than any other country in the world.

[–]Haylstorm 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah like it was disappointing but TV exists, not the end of the world. Plus it was a sensible measure, just annoying that they only started that right when I got there. Fun to joke they just didn't want me there.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

At least you made it to Sweden just before the rest of the world went to shit.

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

This was actually about a year in I think. From memory there was a spike at about that time so they did that as a measure. Was not the most fun time to travel though so many extra checks combined with staff shortages was an...interesting experience.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

True. Even without the restrictions, life still sucked during the pandemic because everybody was panicking. Even now my parents take antigen tests whenever they get sick and Ireland lifted the last of our covid restrictions last March.

[–]clownworlddropout 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Finally.

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

Good

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

Well I got blocked on twit again for telling "whores" to stay off the pride flag. Twitter lmao you stupid bitch.

However, this is great news and I will be sure to check it out once they force me to delete my tweet. I always fight and they always win but at least we are making progess somewhere.