To Be or Not To Be: your gender (Vivek R.)

[Argentbear]

The graph on page 72 of the Cass report shows that in 2009 in the UK there were ~50 GD referrals and by 2016 there were over 1700 referrals.

referrals not cases

The rest of your responses aren't worth my time to respond to. I've made my points on this thread. I will summarize them one last time, not for your benefit, you seem to be locked in to supporting the corrupt WPATH organization for reasons I cannot guess at.

again i will ask you demonstrate this corruption and again you will not respond

My summary points:

- The WPATH files clearly show that WPATH does NOT do quality research, they make it up as they go along.

Evidence?

- WPATH has an outsized influence on GAC throughout the west. (It's interesting to note that GD mostly occurs only in Europe and NA.)

Thailand, India and Brazil have the highest per capita rates of transgenderism

- There has been a huge spike in GD in the last 10-15 years - social contagion is the most parsimonious explanation for this.

Only if you ignore evidence

- The Cass report - which has been well received by many countries in Europe with superior healthcare systems - summarizes that the evidence for the benefits of GAC are of consistently low quality.

by ignoring the majority of available studies

- The dangers of most of the GAC protocols (social transitioning, drugs, and surgeries) are well known.

as are the dangers of denying GAC

So we have a corrupt group (WPATH), acting as "specialists" for GD, and we have overworked doctors assuming that WPATH's protocols are in fact based in good science, which they are not.

You get the last word, all of my claims are easy for interested people to verify.

Have yourself a fine day @Argentbear

falsely calling something corrupt doesn't make it corrupt

 

[Argentbear]

Being left-handed is an anomoly.
Being gay is an anomaly.
Being extremely tall or short is an anomaly.
Etc.

These are actually normal variations

 

[Argentbear]

Not really… science is science.



No… it isn’t an anomaly any more than being brown is an anomaly. Going by common understanding of what anomaly is.

just like being LGBT isn't an anomaly

No. It isn’t an anomaly, it is a choice.

No one choses to be gay or straight or bi. People do however choose to be honest about who they are.

 

[Argentbear]

And of course the quote in italics is dangerously misleading

show us how it is misleading

 

[Argentbear]

Do you have studies for long term effects?

see above

 

[Argentbear]

But it is a choice.

If I am “straight” and love “women”, do I yield to the desire and violate my vows with my wife and choose not to do it? Absolutely. It is my choice.

this has nothing to do with your orientation.

If it is a choice that show us. Choose right now to be a happy functioning homosexual go out and start a family with a man and be happy for at least the next ten years

 

[We Never Know]

see above

Yeah I will stick with this.

Try this one from 2022.

"Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear. And in 2016, the FDA ordered makers of puberty blockers to add a warning about psychiatric problems to the drugs’ label after the agency received several reports of suicidal thoughts in children who were taking them.

More broadly, no large-scale studies have tracked people who received gender-related medical care as children to determine how many remained satisfied with their treatment as they aged and how many eventually regretted transitioning. The same lack of clarity holds true for the contentious issue of detransitioning, when a patient stops or reverses the transition process.

The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that “the evidence is limited on whether these treatments pose short- or long-term health risks for transgender and other gender-diverse adolescents.” The NIH has funded a comprehensive study to examine mental health and other outcomes for about 400 transgender youths treated at four U.S. children’s hospitals. However, long-term results are years away and may not address concerns such as fertility or cognitive development."

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/#:~:text=Puberty%20blockers%20and%20sex%20hormones,and%20sexual%20function%20remain%20unclear.