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There is a lot to cover but I find the logic of the transgender community to be flawed. Please note that I am not transphobic, my opinion is simply not in support of the transgender community. Transgenderism is also known as gender identity disorder (GID).
1. Laws allowing children to transition and receive hormone therapy or surgery without parents consent is not ok.
- the main goal of these laws is to treat body dysphoria and gender dysphoria. However, it seems insane to me that transitioning should be the immediate solution, and that we shouldn't even give other, safer treatments a chance first. Hormone therapy is an irreversible process which leaves a person sterile or infertile for life. If someone no longer feels gender dysphoria towards their biological sex after transitioning or they experience even worse gender dysphoria after transitioning, the damage can't be undone. It is a destructive process. it is almost certainly child abuse to do something to a kid outside of their understanding. Consider a child entering puberty. As their hormones change, they may naturally have extreme confusion about their body. It would only be made worse by telling them that their confusion means they should alter everything about their self image, to place a label on the confusion and identify with it, instead of attempting to resolve their confusion.
-It is a parent's role to guide their child through the world, to eliminate their child's confusion through education and perspective. These laws would strip that away from parents, alienating kids from their parents through the misunderstanding about what their parents really want for them. They aren't "suppressing an identity" at all. They want their kid to be comfortable with what they are instead of uncomfortable with what they aren't, the latter stemming from the confusion during puberty.
-Notice that very young children who "present with transgender personality traits" aren't at all uncomfortable. They simply don't understand how the world works, and are confused about the idea of gender.
2. A main claim of support for transition is that it will reduce suicide rates in transgender populations.
-the transgender population itself has more than doubled in the last decade. The promotion of identification by feelings has made an incredible amount of headway through the woke movement. Unfortunately, supporting these ideals means trans people don't try to eliminate their dysphoria, but try to identify by it.
-These people then become burdened by their feelings because they go unresolved and it leads to extreme increases in the rates of mental illness diagnosis and suicide .
-I believe the most efficient method for the reduction of suicide rates in the transgender community is to teach these individuals how to accept what they cannot change and to attempt to resolve self image issues.
3. Another claim is that therapy just doesn't work.
-Transgender people will spend their entire lives having their choice (if you can call it theirs) attacked. Does it not then make sense that they would view therapy designed to help them abandon that choice in favor of being comfortable in their own body as an attack on their self? If they are told their choices are wrong, over and over, why then would saying the same thing but in a context in their best interest be viewed as different from an attack? Therapy will not work once the transgender ideal takes hold unless the individual is receptive to criticism.
-Therapy only works if the individual WANTS to change. Only if they want to be comfortable in their own body does therapy have a chance of realizing it. But the problem is, these people are disgusted by their bodies. They could not be further from successful therapy. They don't want to be comfortable with something that already seems ugly.
-Only when a transgender person realizes that they only see their body as ugly because of confusion, poor body image, or self esteem can they accept that they might not be viewing themselves correctly. That's when therapy will work. When they're ready to change. Should we not preach self acceptance of our bodies before acceptance of the difference between our body and our feelings?
If you made it this far, I'm proud of you. You are a true intellectual to read the entire argument, and I respect you as an individual. The approach for helping the transgender person should not be to force them through therapy or transitioning but to educate them as much as possible about themselves and to teach them self love so they never question or doubt themselves in the first place.
1. Laws allowing children to transition and receive hormone therapy or surgery without parents consent is not ok.
- the main goal of these laws is to treat body dysphoria and gender dysphoria. However, it seems insane to me that transitioning should be the immediate solution, and that we shouldn't even give other, safer treatments a chance first. Hormone therapy is an irreversible process which leaves a person sterile or infertile for life. If someone no longer feels gender dysphoria towards their biological sex after transitioning or they experience even worse gender dysphoria after transitioning, the damage can't be undone. It is a destructive process. it is almost certainly child abuse to do something to a kid outside of their understanding. Consider a child entering puberty. As their hormones change, they may naturally have extreme confusion about their body. It would only be made worse by telling them that their confusion means they should alter everything about their self image, to place a label on the confusion and identify with it, instead of attempting to resolve their confusion.
-It is a parent's role to guide their child through the world, to eliminate their child's confusion through education and perspective. These laws would strip that away from parents, alienating kids from their parents through the misunderstanding about what their parents really want for them. They aren't "suppressing an identity" at all. They want their kid to be comfortable with what they are instead of uncomfortable with what they aren't, the latter stemming from the confusion during puberty.
-Notice that very young children who "present with transgender personality traits" aren't at all uncomfortable. They simply don't understand how the world works, and are confused about the idea of gender.
2. A main claim of support for transition is that it will reduce suicide rates in transgender populations.
-the transgender population itself has more than doubled in the last decade. The promotion of identification by feelings has made an incredible amount of headway through the woke movement. Unfortunately, supporting these ideals means trans people don't try to eliminate their dysphoria, but try to identify by it.
-These people then become burdened by their feelings because they go unresolved and it leads to extreme increases in the rates of mental illness diagnosis and suicide .
-I believe the most efficient method for the reduction of suicide rates in the transgender community is to teach these individuals how to accept what they cannot change and to attempt to resolve self image issues.
3. Another claim is that therapy just doesn't work.
-Transgender people will spend their entire lives having their choice (if you can call it theirs) attacked. Does it not then make sense that they would view therapy designed to help them abandon that choice in favor of being comfortable in their own body as an attack on their self? If they are told their choices are wrong, over and over, why then would saying the same thing but in a context in their best interest be viewed as different from an attack? Therapy will not work once the transgender ideal takes hold unless the individual is receptive to criticism.
-Therapy only works if the individual WANTS to change. Only if they want to be comfortable in their own body does therapy have a chance of realizing it. But the problem is, these people are disgusted by their bodies. They could not be further from successful therapy. They don't want to be comfortable with something that already seems ugly.
-Only when a transgender person realizes that they only see their body as ugly because of confusion, poor body image, or self esteem can they accept that they might not be viewing themselves correctly. That's when therapy will work. When they're ready to change. Should we not preach self acceptance of our bodies before acceptance of the difference between our body and our feelings?
If you made it this far, I'm proud of you. You are a true intellectual to read the entire argument, and I respect you as an individual. The approach for helping the transgender person should not be to force them through therapy or transitioning but to educate them as much as possible about themselves and to teach them self love so they never question or doubt themselves in the first place.
