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From the limited psychology books and research I read as a hobby it is actually true and there's a very good example of that in Japanese society where it accept
by Fuxy 11y ago
From the limited psychology books and research I read as a hobby it is actually true and there's a very good example of that in Japanese society where it accepted for young children to be attracted or even in love with other children of the same sex.
It is considered as something they will grow out of even if sometimes they don't.
This leads me to believe that Dr. Zucker is right and he is yet another victim of uninformed activism.
The allegations in the report are he said, she said from what I an concerned. If you ever worked in a customer facing role you know if you do enough digging you will find someone that would say what you want them to say even if it's not true.
You would need a statistical report of how may people he has treated vs how many people had something bad to say about his treatment to actually see the real truth.
You can get some people to lie or they might have their own reason for lying but given a large enough sample that is meaningless.
That was not a proper investigation it was a witch hunt.
- rntz 11y ago> where it accepted for young children to be attracted or even in love with other children of the same sex. That's sexual orientation, not gender identity, no? One of the salient points in the original article is precisely the distinction between gender identity (which the GIC sees as flexible, but their critics see as immutable) and sexual orientation (which both appear to view as immutable): > GIC clinicians view this as a conceptual error: The critics are conflating sexual orientation — which can’t be changed, which is part of the reason we view attempts to mess with it it as unethical — and gender identity, which they say isn’t some hardwired thing
- dragonwriter 11y ago> there's a very good example of that in Japanese society where it accepted for young children to be attracted or even in love with other children of the same sex. > It is considered as something they will grow out of even if sometimes they don't. Sexual orientation and gender identity are two different things (you can be trans without being attracted to people of the same biological sex, and vice versa.) So, while the example you refer to (if true) might be relevant to discussion of whether sexual orientation drifts from childhood (or, perhaps, whether environmental pressures get people to outwardly conform to heteronormative social expectations when their orientation is homo- or bi-sexual), it doesn't seem anything directly to do with gender identity discussion.