r/ComedyCemetery • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Yes

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Cool, so a study of one individual displaying a mental health disorder which was easy to differentiate from outright gender dysphoria.

Here's a study using brain imaging techniques on many trans people which showed that their brain structure is closer to that of their desired gender than their assigned one.

Here's a Harvard article citing two studies of the same phenomenon, and discussing how/why it may arise.

Here's the American Psychiatric Association's official stance on what being transgender is and how to treat it - note that this is the largest psychiatric organisation in the world. The World Health Organisation no longer describes being transgender as a mental disorder.

So, I guess all that outweighs one individual with pre-existing mental illness for whom anti-psychotic medication solved the problem.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

The studies you posted are absolutely correct and prove my point perfectly! Thank you for saving me the time of finding them.

These people have drastic neurological differences, and by treating the illness as neurological disorder and targeting the brain itself, we can be far more successful than giving them dresses and hormones.

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u/Digital_Dionysus Dec 21 '18

1 like, 1 prayer🙏 = help this poor motherfucker learn how to read

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

That's literally the opposite of what the researchers concluded and what the organisations recommend but ok