What do you think about Transmedicalism? I think this is the only Trans ideology that makes sense. A person would have to fully biologically transition.

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[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think the culture around it is nonsense, but I read an endocrinology study done by Oxford that makes some sense. In essence, they took a sample of about 300 trans women (mtf), 300 straight men, and 300 straight women and studied their genetic markers for when and how much hormones are release. The found that the markers for most trans women more closely resembled heterosexual women than hetersexual men. I don't buy the whole male/female brain or woman in a man's body bullshit, but I do buy that if your body is, because of the disorder, not releasing hormones at the right times and amounts for your biological sex, you could feel out of place compared to other biological men/women.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/104/2/390/5104458

Having said that, I still think the priority should be treating that disorder rather than catering to its symptoms. It's like giving hearing aids to schizophrenics so they can hear the voices better rather than trying to cure or at least reduce the symptoms.

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

There is a neuroscience twitter account I follow that breaks down and debunks a lot of these types of papers.

https://twitter.com/NeuroSGS

There are lots of confounding factors that aren't addressed in these sorts of studies.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But there isn't a way to treat it any more than there is to give them a real sex change.