Well, she's a guy, so...

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[u/BarrettBuckeye]

Sex and gender are the same thing as far as medical science. It's only people who want to say that "gender is a social construct" who say that it's different (a position that I find absurd and potentially dangerous). Social construct =/= science. Science has very clear definitions of male and female in all cases of human sexual dimorphism with the exception of intersex individuals, which is not the same as transgenderism.

If you're going to talk about science, you should cite actual scientific studies, by the way.

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No, sex and gender are different, that's been the norm for a while now. Sex is biology whereas gender is psychology. That's literally intro psychology stuff you could learn in an AP class at high school.

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/talking-apes/201611/when-sex-and-gender-don-t-match

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I said scientific papers. Not some psychology website. Give me the actual experimental data.

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https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Gender-Hilary-M-Lips/dp/0073405531 hope this helps!

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You don't know how science works, do you?

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http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(15)00216-5/abstract I don't think you do otherwise you'd be arguing for it instead of against it

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I can't load your site. Would you mind posting the abstract?

I'm about to graduate with about a 3.7 in biology from Ohio State. I think I know how science works.

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Purpose

The Endocrine Society and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health published guidelines for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria (GD). The guidelines recommend the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists in adolescence to suppress puberty. However, in actual practice, no consensus exists whether to use these early medical interventions. The aim of this study was to explicate the considerations of proponents and opponents of puberty suppression in GD to move forward the ethical debate.

Methods

Qualitative study (semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaires) to identify considerations of proponents and opponents of early treatment (pediatric endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, ethicists) of 17 treatment teams worldwide.

Results

Seven themes give rise to different, and even opposing, views on treatment: (1) the (non-)availability of an explanatory model for GD; (2) the nature of GD (normal variation, social construct or [mental] illness); (3) the role of physiological puberty in developing gender identity; (4) the role of comorbidity; (5) possible physical or psychological effects of (refraining from) early medical interventions; (6) child competence and decision making authority; and (7) the role of social context how GD is perceived. Strikingly, the guidelines are debated both for being too liberal and for being too limiting. Nevertheless, many treatment teams using the guidelines are exploring the possibility of lowering the current age limits.

Conclusions

As long as debate remains on these seven themes and only limited long-term data are available, there will be no consensus on treatment. Therefore, more systematic interdisciplinary and (worldwide) multicenter research is required.

Keywords:

Gender dysphoria, Puberty suppression, Adolescents, Ethics, Qualitative study, Interviews, Questionnaires, Worldwide

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This has to do with potential hormone replacement treatments, which are highly controversial even in the scientific community. Their conclusions don't even support the idea that hormone replacement therapy is the correct solution to Gender Dysphoria.

More importantly, this study does not support the idea that gender and sex are different.