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The Bad Science Behind Trans Medicine Bans

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The Bad Science Behind Trans Medicine Bans - Dissent Magazine

The conservative movement has built its case against gender-affirming care on the authority of anachronistic, faulty clinical research.

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as a cis person I think without a doubt about the importance of gender affirming care, because it takes away my body autonomy.
Remember how in the beginning of the movie Interstellar the lady is talking about how the moon landing was a hoax, in a way that indicated that was the accepted fact?
Is it even “science”?
- Please, please go read what the actual M.D.s and psychologists who study this topic for a living have to say on the subject.
  Not a news article or a blog post, I want you to go to any reputable medical association, find their official policy, and read the research papers listed in the references.
- No, compromising with conservatives does nothing but give them more power and the world further into fascism.
  
  This is not compromising with conservatives. It’s compromising with popular attitude towards the conversation. This is the problem with progressives right now, you contradict yourselves, arent you supposed to be a movement of the people for the people?
  I know you aren’t but this is what many progressives claim so maybe solve that internal contradiction if you want to appeal to the masses. People may be stupid but they can see the anti populist attitude of the progressives and this is why you don’t have their support.
- Why do you feel like permanently altering the brain to make it tolerate the body would be a preferable alternative to permanently altering the body to make the brain happier?
  
  Well for one a lot of people transition but they don’t “pass” and this still causes them significant mental stress. What if they had another option that was just as valid and viable? Isn’t the point solving the mental distress caused by the incongruence?
  More choices are never a bad thing.
- While we are doing this, we might also find out how to treat left handed people.
  
  Sure, if left handed people committed suicide at a much higher rate than right handed people because their brains cannot cope with living in a left handed body as a right handed brain we should be looking how to treat them,
- But have you tried just minding your own business?
- Or you can trust what real trans people say about their (our) existence, you buttwaffle
- I agree that allowing political conservatism is the best solution we have at the moment. But I disagree with not investigating it as a neurological issue that might have other, also effective, avenues for treatment with ultimately the person choosing which treatment is best for them. Hell the declassification of conservatism as a mental health issue was politically motivated without sufficient evidence to prove that in some cases conservatism might not simply be its own thing rather than a symptom.
- The only reason it's an "issue" is because fucking idiots make it an issue.
  If it's a "neurological issue" that might have "other avenues for treatment," those avenues for treatment are ones that should be applied to the fucking idiots to get them to stop being fucking idiots. They're the ones with neurological issues that cause problems for themselves and others.

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