This is all a distraction from the issue of gay men having their testicles removed and penises mutilated then regretting it which really has happened and is happening. — Andrew4Handel
The increasing number of people regretting irreversible bodily damage due to identifying in as trans. These people are easy to find on You Tube prominent among them is Shapeshifter and Ritchie Herrin. Both gay men who experienced internalized homophobia and have no detransitionted. There are several more you can find including Chloe Cole child transitioner.
On average, 97% of people who are transgender are happy with their decision to transition. Only ~3% of trans people experience some form of regret, but may not detransition.
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Well, why do people detransition? The main reason cited for detransition is social pressure. Recent research by Dr Jack Turban has found that around 90 per cent of people who return to their birth gender in the US don’t do so because of regret or dissatisfaction, but because of pressure from family, school, work, or society in general.
The National Center for Transgender Equality found that the most common reasons for detransitioning were lack of support at home, problems in the workplace, and harassment and discrimination.
Other reasons for detransition include exploring different gender identities, unrelated health issues, and financial complications.
Only 5% of people who detransitioned (0.4% of all trans people) did so because they felt the transition was not right for them. They have remained detransitioners.
Or are you suggesting that transgender women just are men pretending to be women as an excuse to use women’s bathrooms and sexually assault them? — Michael
and are males and females with disorders of development. — Andrew4Handel
Transgender women are men. Caitlyn Jenner produced six children with "his" sperm and acknowledges being their father Anyone claiming to be living as the opposite sex is simply impersonating them. It is categorically impossible to change sex.
Being male or female is not a choice and womens spaces and sports were not intended for people's mental self perception but biological sex. — Andrew4Handel
It is categorically impossible to change sex. — Andrew4Handel
Yes women have been attacked in such situations so do your own research. — Andrew4Handel
What does being transgender have to do with gay men? — Michael
Seems to me there's a legitimate debate over what to do with minors, if anything, to best help them navigate their sexual identity — Baden
Is this not still a claim made by anti-gay individuals, who suggest gay men have a genetic disorder of development? I would assume you would find such a claim offensive, yes? — universeness
and their are no adequate detransition studies. — Andrew4Handel
Detransition Reddit now has 47 thousand members and many recitals of the real reasons people transition and detransition none to do with family pressure. — Andrew4Handel
I as a vulnerable gay man from a homophobic religious cult and autistic could have sterilised myself and have had my genitals severed like Ritchie Herrin and ShapeShifter gay male detransitioners. — Andrew4Handel
I'd say sexualized rockstars are inappropriate for children too. — Tzeentch
Only legal operations/medical processes are allowed. Only legal medications can be used. — universeness
Or every future public toilet can be built as a series of individual lockable units, with a WC and a small sink and mirror. No more gender specific toilets. Would that not solve the problem? — universeness
I am a socialist/secular humanist, so accommodating the needs and wishes of as many people in a community as possible, remains the main goal. — universeness
I think what conservatives fear is some kind of cultural shift that becomes self-fulfilling in that it leads rather than follows science. — Baden
I as a vulnerable gay man from a homophobic religious cult and autistic could have sterilised myself and have had my genitals severed like Ritchie Herrin and ShapeShifter gay male detransitioners. Whilst you helped convince me I was a woman trapped in a man's body. It is ludicrous and frightening and you are clearly not listening. — Andrew4Handel
Ok, to steel man this, I think a conservative would say that opening up more space for what anyone can be can't be separated from enforcing what some people will be.
(Active social engineering dressed up as passive social accommodation.) — Baden
Another way to state their case is that there is a kind of ethical retrojection going on here. Liberals are fostering the grounds for a problem for which the solution is its own problem from a conservative point of view. — Baden
On the specific point of suicide and mental illness, they might claim utilitarian grounds that overall these tendencies may increase with availability of treatment according to a relative rather than absolute sense of deprivation. — Baden
Affirming your right to be a Muslim is tantamount to forcing people to be Muslims? — frank
I guess that's why I favor state patient advocates and psychologists. Let them figure it out. — frank
A more accurate analogy might be that for the U.S. establishment to publically espouse the virtues of Islam, including in media, schools, and society generally would virtually guarantee more converts to Islam — Baden
To not want diversity for the sake of diversity or change for the sake of change is just part of the conservative mindset. Liberals sometimes neglect to recognize their own ideological commitments here in order to paint opposition to them as bigotry. — Baden
Yes... but let's recognize they don't operate in an ideological vacuum. (Let me emphasise again, I'm being devil's advocate here to a degree.) — Baden
But that would be a violation of the first amendment. I don't think any government agencies are actually advising people to become trans, are they? — frank
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