None of it was particularly offensive, though I do certainly disagree with you. When you say that perhaps they are autistic, or have some other mental quirk, are you implying that being autistic limits their ability to determine their own gender?
Because I don't think that's true.. I mean autism isn't exactly a mental deficiency and usually revolves around how that person's brain handles social environments and different people. Every " disability" is only a disability in the context of modern society, though some genetic traits of disabilities certainly are less survivable in a natural context than others. Ultimately, autism is just a different biological adaptation. I don't think this disables someone's ability to have an adequate perception of themself.
I still don't understand how the nature of someone being transgender is any more significant in terms of influence than any other identity. In other words, if a cis woman wears a dress in a YouTube video you don't consider that indoctrination or potentially a social contagion. If a transwoman wears a dress in a YouTube video, this is a social contagion. Why is one person doing the same thing any more significant than the other?
Have you ever watched cartoons? A lot of the cartoons I watched growing up featured the occassional boy in a dress, or whatever. We have had males wearing dresses in our media for quite a while now, it's not really a new thing, though now it is less of a joke than it used to be.
On the front of detransitioning -- even if you have an anecdote from your life, you should realize how incredibly rare this is. Considering our suicide rate, weigh the risks -- they have a 40 percent chance of killing themselves and an 8 percent chance of detransitioning. Of the 8-percent In the study I am referring to, 62-percent attempted to transition again, so in other words we are really looking at 4-percent margin for mistaken transition.
A 2019 poster presentation examined the records of 3398 patients who attended a UK gender identity clinic between August 2016 and August 2017. Davies and colleagues searched for assessment reports with keywords related to regret or detransition. They identified 16 individuals (0.47%) who expressed regret or had detransitioned. Of those 16, 3 (0.09%) had detransitioned permanently.[1] 10 (0.29%) had detransitioned temporarily, to later retransition.[1] A 2019 clinical assessment found that 9.4% of patients with adolescent-emerging gender dysphoria either ceased wishing to pursue medical interventions or no longer felt that their gender identity was incongruent with their assigned sex at birth within an eighteen-month period.
Detransitions are not common at all. This is what medical professionals do; they weigh the risks and consider the best option. Considering that the risk for suicide is so high, the only trade-off to gender affirming care is a risk of detransition that remains below 4-percent, it is far more risky to ignore the dysphoria than diagnose it.
I know nobody knows what transgender health care is like except for transgender, so you likely don't have much experience with this -- but it isn't easy to get gender-affirming care. It isn't as simple as going in and saying " I'm transgender."
First off, you need to have a therapist, an endocrinologist (or obgyn) and a psychiatrist -- sometimes no endocrinologist but I have one. During every step in the process, your gender isn't affirmed; it is put under scrutiny. I had to show them pictures of myself going back years and years in order to essentially prove to them that I was transgender. For someone that went through a lot of stress to get their medication, and had to try multiple different doctors ( I live in the south, ) it is really annoying to constantly hear this talking point because it obviously comes from people who have no idea about anything when it comes to transgender healthcare. It's not as simple as showing up at a clinic and saying you are transgender.
I mean Mormons believe some pretty ridiculous things, wouldn't you agree? There are much more Mormons than transgender people, they have a whole state of them. They're also actively trying to recruit more Mormons into their ideology, and control everyone in that ideology's life. So why don't you consider why you have this problem with the existence of transgender, but not other groups like Mormonism. Not that I have a problem with Mormonism, it just points to the silliness of this argument -- I don't believe any of these arguments are real.
Just as other arguments have been used historically in this same context, these arguments are almost solely built with the intention of degrading transgender people.
I do not hate you for believing them, but I wish you would try thinking it over again... Because these sorts of conclusions seem odd to me... Somehow someone wearing the clothes they want to wear is going to influence people to wear different clothes, and that's bad, but yet a much larger population is actively trying to indoctrinate more members and controls the entire lives of it's members isn't a problem? It just points to the hypocrisy; why are we worried about transgender people and not these other much larger groups? It seems to me it is likely the case that there isn't much more to this than prejudice.
