RE: "The Invisible Manhood"
It is a complete lie that attitude towards transgenders have any impact on the suicide rate. The rates of suicide are so high that they’re comparable only to war vets and Jews in Nazi Germany. Unless transgenders are treated as badly as Jews in Nazi Germany, there is clearly something wrong with being transgender.
Medical professionals who recommend gender “reassignment” surgery to children under 18 are bad people taking part in child abuse.
Gender identity disorder is a mental disorder and the way to treat it is through non physical means. You don’t encourage anorexic to keep refusing to eat or tell them that they’ll be beautiful if they keep doing what they’re doing. This is exactly what you’re doing to transgenders. The first step in helping them is acknowledging the problem.
If you’ve bought into the propaganda, I truly feel sorry for you. Gender identity disorder is becoming an epidemic because professionals are unwilling to ask hard questions, and are treating the issue like its normal.
Professionals are the ones who understand the problem. Not keyboard warriors, I'm sorry you feel you're so informed on something you're so clueless about.
You don't need to be a professional to understand basic mental disorder or basic biology. You have to be particularly educated to be this stupid. It's ideological.
Unfortunately not. Thankfully we're the ones with the power and you're the ones with the keyboards. Best of luck with making changes that way :)
If you're injecting ideology into your field, you are not fit to serve in that field. If you're a professional or an aspiring professional you should value truth over ideology.
Shhh, go away
That's not an argument. Pick one: ideology or truth.
But we have these studies that show it is.
https://www.vox.com/cards/transgender-myths-fiction-facts/transgender-people-mentally-ill-myth
http://time.com/4424589/being-transgender-is-not-a-mental-disorder-study/
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/docs/default-source/research-project-files/bw0288_the-first-australian-national-trans-mental-health-study---summary-of-results.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Vox is not a reliable source. There are also studies showing that vaccines cause autism, but we both know that that's untrue. In the Time piece it mentions how gender identity disorder is not a disorder, similarly to homosexuality. But homosexuality remains a mental disorder because science doesn't care about your feelings. Homosexuality was removed from the DSM for political reasons, not scientific ones.
If gender identity disorder is not a mental disorder, why does the suicide rate remain unchanged post-transition? Surely there would be some tangible result if the proposed solution was doing anything to remedy the issue.
How can a boy "feel" like he's a girl? He's never been a girl. He never can be a girl. Biology dictates that you remain the gender of your birth.
Taking a pro-transgender position is taking an anti-science and anti-truth position.
Actually, this is incredibly incorrect. From birth and during life there are many disorders that can change someone's position on the traditional gender spectrum. Lactotrophic adenomas, Kleinfelters, Turners, Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia etc...
Not to mention that as women age they lose secondary female sexual characteristics and gain male ones due to a slow down of liver function.
Sex is not black and white, even in nature, so why pretend it's black and white in our brains.
There is no gender spectrum. There is biologically only male and female.
Yes, it is. You're using the words "sex" and "gender" interchangeably, meaning you don't care about consistency in your ideology. Sex is "supposed" to be the black and white one.
No I'm not actually. Look up the examples I gave. Their syndromes where sex is either indeterminate or not fully male or female. So I'll say it again. Sex is a spectrum, gender is a spectrum.
Also I'm not arguing this any more, I'm out.
There are male cells and there are female cells. There are only two possibilities. There are "intersex" people, which is a very rare exception which proves the rule.
You're disregarding truth to push an incredibly dangerous ideology that will result in harm and suicide.