First off, in the article I quoted this statistic as 1.4-percent. An anecdote about your nieces and their friends doesn't change that -- it's still an astonishingly low number. Even compared with other countries, it's a very small percentage of the population.
I find this analysis of who bisexual people end up with to be silly. Sexuality does not infer preference, many bisexual women prefer men and there's nothing wrong with that... Don't really understand why we are talking about sexuality under an article about gender though. The article was about transgender people, not gay people.
You've never known anyone that sometimes has a boyfriend and sometimes has a girlfriend? Hi, I'm Emma, nice to meet you. I sometimes have a boyfriend and sometimes have a girlfriend, and I have met thousands of people who are the same.
Your points here are fallacies; it doesn't mean anything to say " well my son has a friend _", it's a logical fallacy; it's called the anecdotal fallacy. Just as I stated above, I have had the opposite experience, so which is true? The one which is true is what the data supports.
I can't believe you actually just inferred that not being heterosexual is a reflection of immaturity. That's hilarious.
Some people you know think hormones are in food and drinking water, yeah and you're not too far displaced -- we see who your friends are -- it's a wonder why you believe sexuality is merely a reflection of someone's age and maturity.
Very very few people reverse their transition, and of those people more than half retransition and the vast majority of the people who did detransition cited social issues, such as non-affirming schools, pressure from family, or sexual assault. The detransition lie is a bold one, only takes a basic Google search to disprove it. Detransition rates are remarkably low.
It's important to also remember there is a risk trade-off to medical care. What are the risks of gender-affirming care? For teenagers, the only gender affirming care they receive is anti-androgens until they are of a mature age (generally 15-16, occassionally 14). For adults, there is the addition of estrogen, and usually further down the line progesterone.
The medical effects of anti-androgens are
- less testosterone
- no facial hair
- no jawline
And there is a risk of sterilization; though generally this risk is associated with taking more of spironolactone than transgender people are prescribed -- not a little more, a lot more.
The majority of detransitioners would stop at this point... Usually you are prescribed these medications in descending order.
The next step would be estradiol, which has the physical effects of
- softer skin (smaller pores)
- breast development
- fat distribution
Then progesterone, which is essentially just fat distribution.
Adults may choose to also pursue SRS, but the majority of transgender women don't.
My point is, none of these are really that big of a deal... In a worst case scenario with HRT, a male will grow breasts. On the female side, in a worst case scenario the person grows a mustache and a jawline. These mistaken changes for at most 8 percent of the transgender population (most of which detransition because people say stuff like you just wrote) are pretty minor... The risk we compare this to is a 40 percent chance of suicide.
The wrong medical procedure for the diagnosis is given all the time; doctors are just humans like you and me, they have to consider the different outcomes and the likelihood of those outcomes. In this sample, they would be comparing a huge suicide risk with a minimal risk that maybe the person might end up with physical changes they don't like... Which are also reversible... If females can look like males then surely a male who looks female can look like a male?
Lastly, I know that the average person knows nothing about medical care, but I do. It isn't easy to get gender affirming care. First, you have to have a therapist. The therapist will give you a referral to another doctor, either an endocrinologist or a psychiatrist, in my case it was actually both of them. During this time, your gender identity isn't encouraged, it is under scrutiny. I had to show pictures of myself going back for years in order to effectively " prove" my transgenderness... And I'm intersex!! So I could only imagine what it would be like for someone who is male.
So your opinion on this is apparently more trustworthy than that of three doctors?
I mean be honest, before reading this had you ever even heard the name spironolactone before? How do you have more expertise on weighing the risk of these circumstances than my doctor?
I'm sorry for being a bit hard on your views in this response, but they really are almost hilariously bad takes. How can you possibly say that being transgender is " young people speaking out in a different way" when transgender people have existed for all of time??
You also might be delighted to know that they have observed neurological differences between transgender women, men, and cisgender women.
How about Cleveland Clinic:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/amp/
It is already well-established in Science that trans women's brains are more like cis women's brains than cis men's brains, for example. Yet we still have people sat here arguing about whether or not this is a reflection of maturity, it's just very silly
