The costs of trans visibility

I use they to refer to a singular gendered person all the time and I've never once had to refer to a non-binary person as a they. Its not even a respect thing, its just common vernacular

This is pretty silly. "It" clearly has an insulting context when referring to a human. We used to use it as an insult in grade school

I feel like I recognize this writing style

I am a psychiatrist who works with many trans patients, and I am very educated on this topic. There is no large community of psychiatrists or psychologists who think that being trans is a mental illness. You may find my position sad, but it isn't up for debate.

Thank you for your post that demonstrates 0% reason, 100% personal insults and numerous grammatical errors.

I agree trans is not a mental illness, and it's sad it needs stating. Gender Dysphoria might be, but not trans per se.

However, would you agree that there are mentally ill people who think they are trans?

it's literally the only thing he does

if his views weren't in line with moderation that behavior would have gotten him banned long ago - but alas he's a friendly ally so he's not even reprimanded

Hey aren't you the guy that claimed to put me on ignore, why do you keep subtweeting me and replying and liking posts that criticisize me???

Weird.

Erm, you are telling me you thought this:

"Yah, but it turns out that sex is far more important than gender when it comes to performance in sporting competitions."

was deserving of some substantive reasoned response?

Can we maybe stop implying people who say they are trans might just be mentally ill?

Really sad to see these narratives still perpetuating on this forum.

From the Cass review:

The problem with your statement - of course - is not that it is a factual impossibility, but the way it contributes to the narrative. That is, the endless pushing of a narrative that recenters conversations about trans people around mental health and trnas people not really being trans, just mentally unhealthy. No matter where it starts, the whole 'doncha know mentally unhealthy people might say they are trans' bit gets dropped in.

What exactly is "the narrative", and how does my statement contribute to it?

Mental health is weaponized against trans people in many ways by the anti-trans crowd, perhaps none more so than the fake trans narrative which tries to center the conversation around casting doubt on people who say they are trans. Surely you've at least noticed this, or is this something you really need explained in more detail?

I've noted this many times, most recently about an hour ago:

However, would you not agree that it's a simple statement of fact that some people who are mentally ill mistakenly believe they are trans. The issue here is that from a societal and healthcare perspective, it's important to acknowledge this to ensure that these mentally ill people receive appropriate diagnosis and treatment. In other words, not the treatments like the affirmative model that discounts mental illness as a potential cause, and risks misdiagnosis and irreversible physical and psychological damage to the patient.

Someone who identifies as trans and happens to have the label of mentally ill — how is this person a less valid trans person?

How can someone identify as trans and believe they are trans, but not actually be trans? Please explain in detail.

Yes, I've acknowledged this many times before. I do want to be clear again, though -- discussion that implies that all trans people are mentally ill or that being trans is itself a mental illness is not allowed.

fact is a portion of people who self identify as trans while minors stop doing so later in life.

and even a low rate of that happening is more than enough to ban any procedure with permanent results while minor, because first do no harm.

that would have been uncontroversial in the past, and it was until recently.

But given a lot of you guys still want to be able to prescribe puberty blockers to minors who self identify as trans, then hormones then surgery, that's why a lot of the discourse is about people who self identify as trans but actually aren't.

there is then some such discourse about people who self identify as trans potentially for personal gain, in sports and to be imprisoned with women while actually being men, but it's less relevant and easier to fix (not hard at all to use biological sex for imprisoning and for sports)

yes that describes a lot of radical leftists (notoriously people who self identify as very liberal are far more often mentally ill than people who self identify as very conservative)

Puberty blockers seem fine as long as taken after starting puberty. Nobody wants 13 years olds getting surgery unless its to address a specific health concern. Generally you'd give someone 5-6 years (or more) to confirm they really want transition surgery. That will be plenty of time for most kids to turn 18 and also sort it out themselves.

Healthcare can't be catered for the 1/100. That is dumb, and bad, and probably cruel

well tell that to governor Tim Walz who signed a bill to the contrary (allowing surgery and sterilizing hormones to minors) and is very proud about it.

the law also requires Minnesota officials to refuse to comply with court orders from out of state in cases of custody and so on when it's about trans minors who went to Minnesota to get sterilized and mutilated

Patients either have to be 16 or 14 to start HRT in Minnesota and they still have to have parental consent

Many mental illnesses are correlated to higher IQ

Totally unrelated to your point 😀

Is it 14 or 16, what does that mean? anyway, in both cases it's minors being sterilized yes, as i wrote.

So durability of identification - that’s what differentiates the valid trans person? Is that the claim now?

Is “true gender” no longer a thing? Nor are male and female brains?