I, for one, applaud this move. These times are indeed hyper-sensitive, and ridiculous exaggerations do occur. This is not one of them. Gender dysphoria is a r

I, for one, applaud this move. These times are indeed hyper-sensitive, and ridiculous exaggerations do occur. This is not one of them. Gender dysphoria is a real, crippling, dangerous mental illness. Maybe in the future there'll be some pill or simple brain surgery that fixes it. Today, there's none of that. Gender reassignment surgery generally helps. Calling people their preferred gender helps, as a complement or substitute to surgery. It's a hacky, inelegant solution, perhaps disgusting to some, but it fucking works! Goind the extra mile to avoid misgendering people is reasonable. "Imagine if we could give depressed people a much higher quality of life merely by giving them cheap natural hormones. I don’t think there’s a psychiatrist in the world who wouldn’t celebrate that as one of the biggest mental health advances in a generation. Imagine if we could ameliorate schizophrenia with one safe simple surgery, just snip snip you’re not schizophrenic anymore. Pretty sure that would win all of the Nobel prizes. Imagine that we could make a serious dent in bipolar disorder just by calling people different pronouns. I’m pretty sure the entire mental health field would join together in bludgeoning anybody who refused to do that. We would bludgeon them over the head with big books about the side effects of lithium." From http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...