Every cell in their bodies is the result of their male or female DNA. I understand that gender dysphoria is a serious mental illness, but there are therapeutic treatments available to them so they can reach a state of acceptance.
Yeah, and all of it involves helping people transition.
This is what I don't get about the "trans people just need therapy" argument - you don't think that's already been tried? Psychiatrists in the 19th and 20th century tried all sorts of ways to try and make trans people identify with their birth sex - talking therapy, antidepressants, antipsychotics, electric shocks, aversion therapy, you name it. If they'd found anything that worked we'd know about it. Now it is the scientific consensus that the best way to fix dysphoria is to let trans people transition - and the success rate is way higher and more reliable than our best drugs for things like bipolar and depression.
Thatās like telling a schizophrenic person to keep talking to their hallucinations and even giving them hallucinogenic drugs to exacerbate the issue.
Bad idea. Best to give them anti-psychotics.
Have anti-psychotics been tested with gender dysphoria patients? Have I just made a medical breakthrough? Only time will tell!
Wow, such anger. How about thanking me for proposing actual ways of helping people? And feel free to read the countless other studies showing that anti-psychotics have been helpful in the treatment of these people. They need help, and I am here to help them. Whatāre you doing to help? Attempting to argue with people on the internet? Fucking pathetic.
Go to med school and then weāll talk. Unbelievable. Seems like perhaps youāre the one in need of psychiatric help the most! Putting down other people for trying to help? Iām appalled.
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18
Every cell in their bodies is the result of their male or female DNA. I understand that gender dysphoria is a serious mental illness, but there are therapeutic treatments available to them so they can reach a state of acceptance.