Majority of gender-confused children grow out of it by adulthood: Netherlands study

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

That all matches my experience, yeah. Adolescence is confusing.

But:

Only a small minority, approximately 2 percent of respondents, reported feeling less comfortable with their gender than before.

Well, that's one in fifty people, which is a small proportion in relative terms, but also means there are a large number of people like this in absolute terms.

Some liberals want you to believe that gender dysphoria is common and we've just been hiding it for centuries. Some conservatives want you to believe that gender dysphoria barely exists and that kids are being brainwashed into thinking they have an imaginary condition.

The truth is, as it almost always is, somewhere in the middle.

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

"Less comfortable with their gender" does not mean transgender, or to give it the older name, transsexual. Who hasn't been somewhat uncomfortable with their sex at least occasionally? Women have monthly periods, and that's a massive PITA. Guys suffer from fears that they will never be "manly" enough, that their cock is too small, that they won't be able to get it up or last long enough. Everyone wants to break out of social expectations for their sex at least sometimes.

  • Am I too short for a man?
  • Am I too tall for a girl?
  • Why is it us men that are conscripted and sent to die in foreign wars?
  • As a woman, I'm always surrounded by bigger, stronger men who can commit violence to me. I have to always be on my guard.
  • As a man, if I get fat and grow man-boobs, I'll be a laughing stock.
  • As a woman, if I'm too flat-chested, people will think less of me. And if my breasts are too big, they'll think I'm a bimbo.
  • I'm a teenaged boy and I get erections in public and that's embarrassing.
  • I'm a teenaged girl and my breasts are growing and now adult men are looking at me in a scary way.

If you're not sometimes "less comfortable" with your sex, you haven't been paying attention.

There is a psychiatric issue "gender dysphoria" where the person suffers a severe and overwhelmingly level of distress about their sex, and allegedly so-called "sex reassignment" is the most effective treatment for this. Well, maybe so, but it seems strange that gender dysphoria isn't treated like any other form of body dysmorphia (a mismatch between your actual body and your mental sense of how your body should be). The fact that it is even given a distinct name, dysphoria instead of dysmorphia, is a bit weird. But whatever... I'm willing to give doctors the benefit of the doubt that for these severe cases of gender dysphoria in adults maybe sex reassignment is justified.

The problem is that the medical industry sees the $$$$ available and are pushing people to use sex reassignment for ever milder cases of, not dysphoria, but just basic, normal levels of discomfort.

And then there is the elephant in the room. See also https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22005209

[–]Titanic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At least there is a rational reason to want to be taller as a man or prettier as a girl (beauty is good and would make you better off!)

There is ZERO good reason to want to be the other sex, considering both sexes are equal in goodness.