Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”

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[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

IMO there's no effective treatment for gender dysphoria because it's not real, and by that I mean not real in the sense that it is a condition that defies logic, hence it's real world manifestation would be impossible.

There are people who think they're cats or wolves or dragons trapped in a human body. But we don't say they have "species dysphoria." Why? Because they have no fucking clue what it's like to be a cat or wolf or dragon. How could they possibly know they are one? They have no reference from which to make the comparison. So then why the fuck would we believe someone who says they're another gender?

A better term I think would be "obsessive gender envy", because all we can say with certainty is there are people who, quite neurotically, wish to have the experience of being and/or be seen as the opposite sex, to the point where it's all-consuming, and affects their ability to function.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well going back into old medical literature you'll find a condition called "penis envy" which seemed to be a fairly common thing with young girls especially those with male siblings basically because they just "want to pee standing up like a boy" which frankly seems like a perfectly reasonable thing. It's definitely not gender disphoria but I wonder if these days it wouldn't be classified as such. From what I've seen of the online trans-masculine stuff a lot of it does seem like it includes a very strong desire to use a urinal including various workarounds for it.