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What you have heard and read is wrong. No, people forced to live as a gender contrary to their own do not grow up to be well adjusted adults. Gender dysphoria i
by lenticular 8y ago
What you have heard and read is wrong. No, people forced to live as a gender contrary to their own do not grow up to be well adjusted adults. Gender dysphoria is a real disorder as any perusal of legitimate medical research will tell you. The sources I imagine you reach for are non-scientific and not appropriate for HN.
- stcredzero 8y agoGender dysphoria is a real disorder No one here is questioning that. The sources I imagine you reach for are non-scientific and not appropriate for HN. That's quite an Authoritarian stance. How about a mainstream liberal paper and a mainstream conservative one? https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-our-notions-of-gender.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/sunday-dia... https://nationalpost.com/news/cbc-orders-last-minute-cancellation-of-bbc-documentary-that-activists-say-is-transphobic https://nationalpost.com/news/cbc-orders-last-minute-cancell... Reading the reactions around the articles and media referenced in them just strike me as a combination of science and medicine along with ideological activism. My experience is that so long as people are in a community which accepts them, the vast majority of people will figure things out without the need for surgery and hormone injections.