Reyn
The Hungry Abyss
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Reyn
The Hungry Abyss
Indeed.
Yerda
Veteran Member
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Ok. I don't really understand all the gender stuff myself but I'm happy to go with whatever people identify as.
You have no room at all for the possibility that gender and biological sex aren't identical concepts?
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Reyn
The Hungry Abyss
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness and I leave it at that. A man is one who was born a biological male. A woman is one who was born a biological female.
And we should accept your opinion because? You are making a diagnosis, so you have a phd in psychology, yes? And your expertise is gender psychology, like my friend Bobby Kizer? He and I had many discussions on gender psychology, and it is very interesting.
That is suitable for certain legal standards. But these are allowed flexibility under the law later in life.
So you have a problem with others doing this? If so, are they bothering you?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It might be something like the international laws regarding real, legitimate Budweiser and that American bottled pee Budweiser/Bud.
Yerda
Veteran Member
Okey-dokey.
As long as you're prepared to allow for others to have a different opinion then I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
Reyn
The Hungry Abyss
Oh, I’m fine with that. I actually enjoy diversity. I just detest sjw and woke crap.
Audie
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Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
Just because you dislike someone and they disagree with your personal viewpoints or religious beliefs doesn't mean you have to act aggressively and start calling them names. Instead of turning to mockery of those you don't like, there are more effective approaches to resolving disputes and conflicts with other members. If you are seeking respect for your personal opinions, religious convictions, or political viewpoints, then you should also respect other members' personal opinions, religious convictions, and political perspectives.
Respect is earned, not commanded.
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
What about this guy?
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;' Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’
Is he not qualified?
Dao Hao Now
Active Member
Well, McHuge is quite old, and the article was written seven years ago. Is he even still alive? The issue has changed quite a bit since then. And the issue is a more progressive movement that does has its detractors.
The issue sof mental illness requires a lot of assessments and debate, and this issue is still being examined. So I suggest McHuge is making his judgments prematurely. Will the mental health community agree with him eventually? We don't know.
Note that at one time homosexuality was considered a mental illness. That was eliminated from the DSM some years ago as gays were assesed.
My own attitude and experience of trans people is this: in 2012 the daughter of an ex-girlfriend announced she was trans, she was 20. She was very cute, shy, quite, introverted, and I had never heard of being trans. Her mom and me were concerned. Her brother was open to it. I did wonder if it was caused by mental health issues. This discussion went on over a year, and the daughter decided she wanted to transition. She did hormone treatments and other theraies that are common with this. We are all still friends on Facebook and the transition has been successful and Cass is much happier. So what I learned is that regardless of how I am in my skin I can;t tell another person what will make them happy or not. It's not my place. If there is mental health issues there are theraists who are part of transition teams and they will advise. Cass is happy today and that makes me happy.
One mental health phenomenon is how many folks fell very uncomfortable whne people around them diverge from social norms. We feel uncomfortable, and the irony is that this suggests an insecurity in the self. Those who are critical of trans, or gays, or drag queens, are feeling discomfort because their security and confidence is being threatened, and the insecure demand that other conform to norms, or else. We this more exagerated in people with more fervent beliefs, like evangelcals. The tribal groups are tribal because they seek security and reinforcement. And outsiders are felt to be a threat, and all of this is subconscious and acts through the subconscious. The only way to deal with this is to develop emotional intelliegnce. The first ste is awareness of having a problem, and as long as tribal people are looking at threats they will not have the stabity to self-monitor and assess the self's own state of thinking. It's a bad cycle.
No.
Ref...
Paul R. McHugh - Wikipedia
Excerpted...
In September 2016 Johns Hopkins University faculty members Chris Beyrer, Robert W. Blum, and Tonia C. Poteat wrote a Baltimore Sun op-ed, to which six other Johns Hopkins faculty members also contributed, in which they indicated concerns about McHugh's co-authored report, which they said mischaracterized the current state of science on gender and sexuality.[3][38] More than 600 students, faculty members, interns, alumni and others at the medical school also signed a petition calling on the university and hospital to disavow the paper. Beyrer said "These are dated, now-discredited theories".[39][40][41]
Geneticist Dean Hamer condemned McHugh’s publication as a misrepresentation of scientific evidence and his own genetics research.[2] Hamer criticized McHugh use of outdated and “cherry picked” studies, describing McHugh’s call for "more research" as “dubious” since McHugh has a "long history of blocking such efforts", including closing the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins. Hamer concludes that "when the data we have struggled so long and hard to collect is twisted and misinterpreted by people who call themselves scientists, and who receive the benefits and protection of a mainstream institution such as John Hopkins Medical School [sic], it disgusts me."[2]
I see he was also involved in the False Memory Syndrome Foundation scam, which pretty much only existed to discredit victims of sexual abuse. I think some of the people involved with that group were actually sexually abusing children, if I recall correctly. What a strange group for a "conservative Catholic" to be involved in!
From what you describe, not strange at all.
Discrediting sexual abuse victims would
suit the clergy.
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
Given the following rebuttal to the article you cited, I can't help but wonder if you even read the article and understood its content or did you randomly pick it in a Google search because of its title. Besides, as @F1fan noted, the article was written seven years ago, and the issue has changed quite a bit since then. Maybe you should search for more current articles that would support your viewpoint.
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