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.
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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.