Meanwhile on reddit, a US psychiatrist working with children for more than a decade questions the evidence for gender-affirming care. The post is still up a day later, with Mod support.

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[–]M1GarandDad 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And then they claim that official records accurately describing them as "mother", meaning "the parent who was pregnant", causes them such intense gender dysphoria that they WILL commit suicide. The smallest lapse in external validation of their gender identity is a matter of life or death, but nine months of the most primal, visceral, unambiguous reminder of their femaleness is just fine!

It's insultingly obvious they don't have dysphoria from their bodies, they have it from the bullshit social construct of femininity or not at all.

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

It’s the ability to get off on creating diametrically opposed rules that they impose on everyone else, while simultaneously using depraved emotional abuse to coerce normal people into compliance. You have to abide by my linguistic demands, no matter how ridiculous, or else somehow I’m responsible for you hurting yourself?

Yeah, no. One, I don’t owe anyone validation and frankly, because my goodwill has been abused by the activist types, I’m way less likely to even be polite about it. And two, once I get emotionally manipulated, I don’t particularly care what you choose to do to yourself. And three, I doubt they’ll follow through anyway.