U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms

[Kinser79]

(05-22-2016, 03:16 PM)Odin Wrote:

(05-22-2016, 12:57 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Oh look at the libtard posting an opinion propaganda piece as if it were facts.  Of course to normalize a mental disorder.

Not an Opinion Piece from a respected Psychological Journal

It's times like these I miss Rani.

You know that gender realignment surgery and hormone therapy IS the primary treatment for gender dysphoria, right?

Yes and in the 1940s lobotomy supposedly cured every psychological disorder. Do you not think it pretty arrogant to assume that there is only one possible treatment, and that treatment must be the most invasive and radical treatment available?

And yet when one researches the statistics on post op transgenders one finds their suicide rates are still extremely high. On par with only one other group. Jews in Nazi Concentration camps so apparently that "primary treatment" is either ineffective or does not address the underlying co-morbid disorders.

http://www.sexchangeregret.com/research

Quote:Also, you seem to be implying that because it is in the DSM that gender dysphoria is somehow a delusional disorder that needs to be "cured", as if it were Schizophrenia.

That is because it is a delusion. Some people seem to also think that they really should be amputees but the main medical intervention is not amputation of otherwise healthy tissue. Rather the treatment is counciling and addressing the other co-morbid disorders that also present themselves.

Quote:All that is going to do is make the person hate themselves even more and make them more likely to kill themselves, just like when they used to "treat" gay people back when it was considered a mental illness.

Not at all. Male sexuality in particular is more or less fixed. Female sexuality is more plastic but more or less fixed. Gender Dysphoria however is a mental illness because Gender itself is a biological construct. Men are men because they have a penis, they have a male brain and they have a sense of themselves as being male. Women are women because they have a vagina, they have a female brain and they have a sense of themselves of being female.

When the sense of one's self does not match their brain and genitals it is the psychology that is the problem. It is pretty cut and dry if you follow the logical biological definitions. Otherwise all you're left with is feels and normalizing a mental illness which is itself treatable through counseling and in extreme cases drugs.

I'm sorry if this hurts your feels Odin, but I have no desire to normalize this mental disorder than I would want to normalize self-harm or schizophrenia. If anything the most compassionate thing to do is to get these people the help they desperately need, and maybe, just maybe they can have a normal life and not kill themselves.

ETA: It should be noted that Gender Dysphoria does not apply to intersex individuals. As Per the DSMV