The theories I mentioned are the official accepted ones at the moment (or at least they were those mentioned in a university lecture I visited 1.5 years ago, and those that I have also encountered in other places before and since). But, I agree that they are not proven so far, simply because there have not been enough participants in the studies yet (e.g. the study about the brain structure only included transwomen and only maybe 20 or so, if I recall it correctly - maybe other studies have been made in the meantime, though).
There are no better theories so far, though.
I understand but recognize that it is neither here nor there.
How or what causes gender dysphoria is irrelevant to what is or is not physical reality.
I just wish the media would stop exploiting those with this mental illness so they can get the proper care they need.
The hormones and transition surgery don't help lower the suicide rate in the transgender community.
In a way it is a mental disorder (and I didn't say otherwise). I said that it's not the kind of mental disorder that could be treated with medicaments like e.g. shizophrenia can.
Oh ok. I got you now.
What I don't understand is why the delusions of schizophrenia and other mental disorders are discouraged while those had by transgendered peoples are largely supported.
It's a matter of which aspect of a person you consider the deciding factor. If you say, it's their chromosomes or the genitals one was born with, then your arguments are coherent. However, I would deem it more important to consider the personality of the person.
I could not disagree with this more.
There are absolute realities that we have need to recognize no matter what people do or believe.
A blind person may never have seen light, but that does not mean that light does not exist. The experiences or personality of the blind person cannot change that fact.
A white person cannot become a black person, even if they adapt and design their entire lives around all things "black" (whatever those may be), they cannot change their race.
No one can change their age. They may want to be younger and even have selected surgery in an attempt to delude themselves and others, but no one can change their age.
Same goes for all those kids sporting fake IDs to get liquor. The license may say they are the legal age, but reality would disagree.
No matter how effeminate a man is, he is not a woman and can never be a woman. The same goes for all the masculine women out there. They will never be men.
Those are the facts of the physical universe and they should not be tossed aside to appease someone's delusions or to spare their feelings.
It has been tried, but it didn't work.
Hormones on the other hand have been proven to work.
Well, what "works" is rather subjective.
To me, a prescription that would help people overcome delusion and accept reality would be what would "work."
However, you misunderstood my comment.
What I was asking was why a male-to-female transgendered person would take those hormones that would cause their body to become more feminine to align with their delusional image of themselves, rather than take those hormones that would make them more masculine, like testosterone and others.
Why would they rather try to adapt to their delusion rather than the reality of their physical body?
I mean, we tell the schizophrenics and others that the voices in their heads are not real, so why does the media and other outlets support the delusions of the transgendered?
Again, a matter of definition.
Not in biology..
Still they are a significant part of the population. I don't have numbers, but just going by what Wikipedia says there must be several percentage points of people born with genital or chromosomal abnormalities that make them neither male nor female.
I think I read somewhere that it was about 1 in 2000.
However, I believe in most cases that the characteristics of one gender are more dominant than the other.
I don't there there are many, if any, people who fall right on the middle line between the genders.
Transpeople are about 0.4% of the whole population (that number is based on how many actually got their name and official gender changed by court here in Germany, the actual number is therefore probably higher).
I believe that number would decrease significantly once their delusions are no longer entertained and supported.
That comment of mine was mainly said in jest.
Yeah, I figured, but many false things have been said about Christ on this thread so I had my radar up and my finger on that big red button.
