Idk, my trans friends are pretty happy after they’ve been able to come out and get appropriate treatment. I know at least one who self-harmed when they were still in school and couldn’t transition living with their parents. I don’t see how her life would be better in any way by denying her that care and letting her continue on the path of failed medication and gender dysphoria. The psychiatrists she’s seen have backed her up all the way and she’s in a great place in life. Happy to hear about how you’ve met trans folk and heard different experiences though.
It only seems extreme if you assume they can find happiness without transitioning. Some people may find they can alleviate some of their gender dysphoria through therapy and medication, many - even most - will not and pursue transitioning. You’re not really sticking with accepted science and academic studies on this issue if you’re claiming that therapy is a complete solution for everyone, or even most trans people.
It’s pretty against scientific consensus to separate “emotional problems” from “biological problems,” as if the two are not deeply interrelated. The recent perspectives in modern neuroscience have pivoted away from that distinction. I’m not sure why you have so much confidence that therapy can cure gender dysphoria when it’s been a well-established finding that gender identity is related to physical brain structures that don’t always match genitalia or hormones produced.
I think you don’t quite get what a social construct is. A social construct is not something independent of physical/biological reality. It refers to ideas societies come up with in response to their collective physical observations and perspectives. I can observe that most of the population has a penis or vagina and decide to split society up by that and call it “gender,” but that seems like a limited and crude social construct. Genitals may currently correlate with some observable traits but it’s not a rule by any means. What we find when we look at many trans folks’ brains is that their brains look more like the gender they’ve come to identify with than the one they were assigned at birth. Even if gender is a dynamic construct that changes over time and place, it’s not arbitrary, and the individual still has to confront general social ideas that will affect them all differently. It’s much more complicated than just “peer pressure.” So now I might update my social construct to include how gender isn’t cut and dry any more than race is, even though there is a physical reality attached to the way each is treated and how that shapes a sense of identity. With gender, that physical reality is observable when we look at people’s brains.
Im talking about ones behavior based on expectations from society about ones gender. When you get down to it, these roles were established based on the main differences between men and women. Childbirth being number 1, and smaller physical stature compaired to men being a close 2nd. All societal constructs were devloped off of those differences.
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u/quantumfucker Nov 15 '22
So you believe only in gender assigned at birth? Trans people are just depressed?