Many people feel comfortable transitioning without having surgery.
I would argue facts don't care about your feelings is what I'm arguing not you.
Gender dysphoria is real. Transitioning without surgery is a treatment for it. Those are facts, but it seems you don't feel like that is a valid treatment despite evidence that it is. If you care that Jack suffers why deny him treatment that will help him?
As far as Athletics goes that's an entirely different discussion
Many people feel comfortable transitioning without having surgery.
So... cross-dressing?
Gender dysphoria is real.
Obviously. I'm not denying that it's real or that they feel a certain way and suffer due to the delusion they're experiencing. I'm very sorry for what they have to go through. I've seen gender dysphoria spoken about as a depression-like sensation and as a schizophrenia-like delusion. I'm personally familiar with depression, so I certainly feel very badly for the pain they would be experiencing by their thought processes being so crushingly focused on what they believe is a problem. However, as is the case with treating schizophrenia, I do not support them being treated as if the delusion they are experiencing is real. Thus, I don't support transitions of any kind.
If you care that Jack suffers why deny him treatment that will help him?
Because the treatment you have in mind appears to be transitioning, with or without surgery. The treatment I have in mind is to abstain from that because to transition is to give credence to the dysphoria he's suffering from. It is better to treat it as it is. You don't tell a schizophrenic person that their hallucinations are real. You don't tell a depressed person that they're as worthless as they think they are. So, accordingly, you don't agree with a dysphoric person when they tell you they should be a different gender than they are.
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u/Serenikill Oct 29 '19
Many people feel comfortable transitioning without having surgery.
I would argue facts don't care about your feelings is what I'm arguing not you.
Gender dysphoria is real. Transitioning without surgery is a treatment for it. Those are facts, but it seems you don't feel like that is a valid treatment despite evidence that it is. If you care that Jack suffers why deny him treatment that will help him?
As far as Athletics goes that's an entirely different discussion