It’s great that you’re tending to the HIV and STIs of transsexual sex workers. However I think that ‘gender-affirming care’ is nothing but taxpayer-funded extreme body modification and that administering potentially carcinogenic amounts of cross sex hormones is not healthcare but actually causes harm. That sort of trans healthcare is not a human right. I think the mental health component of the service should absolutely be expanded. Many trans-identifying people are psychologically unwell, and it’s not down to minority stress, but other factors such as internalised homophobia, and the strain of adopting another persona to take refuge in. Gender medicine is on shaky ground and I suspect it will go go the way of other medical scandals - exposed and dismantled.
I’m saying that ‘trans’ is a verb, not a noun. In other words, people may change their external presentation to look like the opposite sex, but it’s not because they are inherently ‘trans’ - rather it’s just their response to trying to live life as a very sex stereotype non-conforming person. That’s some of them - for others, (usually women) they’ve experienced a lot of trauma and wish to escape the reality of their sexed bodies by assuming another identity. Those are just two different cohorts - there are also the people on the autism spectrum who have taken a very typical bodily discomfort to its ultimate end and decided that this means they have gender dysphoria. It’s a culture-bound syndrome. Where were all the kids who were trans when I was at school in the 70s and 80s? Hopefully this trend goes the way of Multiple Personality Disorder and soon.
It’s great that you’re tending to the HIV and STIs of transsexual sex workers. However I think that ‘gender-affirming care’ is nothing but taxpayer-funded extreme body modification and that administering potentially carcinogenic amounts of cross sex hormones is not healthcare but actually causes harm. That sort of trans healthcare is not a human right. I think the mental health component of the service should absolutely be expanded. Many trans-identifying people are psychologically unwell, and it’s not down to minority stress, but other factors such as internalised homophobia, and the strain of adopting another persona to take refuge in. Gender medicine is on shaky ground and I suspect it will go go the way of other medical scandals - exposed and dismantled.
On what do you base your point of view? Are you saying that being trans is not a real thing?
I’m saying that ‘trans’ is a verb, not a noun. In other words, people may change their external presentation to look like the opposite sex, but it’s not because they are inherently ‘trans’ - rather it’s just their response to trying to live life as a very sex stereotype non-conforming person. That’s some of them - for others, (usually women) they’ve experienced a lot of trauma and wish to escape the reality of their sexed bodies by assuming another identity. Those are just two different cohorts - there are also the people on the autism spectrum who have taken a very typical bodily discomfort to its ultimate end and decided that this means they have gender dysphoria. It’s a culture-bound syndrome. Where were all the kids who were trans when I was at school in the 70s and 80s? Hopefully this trend goes the way of Multiple Personality Disorder and soon.