4thWaveNow

thirdwaytrans:

4thwavenow:

thirdwaytrans:

4thwavenow:

“…gender dysphoria in childhood does not inevitably continue into adulthood, and only 6 to 23 percent of boys and 12 to 27 percent of girls treated in gender clinics showed persistence of their gender dysphoria into adulthood.”

Cognitive-professional dissonance: So tell me again WHY little kids are being put on puberty blockers and called by their “preferred pronouns”? Trans until proven otherwise, despite the odds?

What is really awful is that it is the experience of puberty itself that causes most of them to desist.   So by preventing them experiencing puberty, it effectively prevent them from desisting.  Doctors such Joanna Olson report that the kids are not desisting when placed on puberty blockers and I think that is the reason why.  It is unnecessarily sentencing these kids to sterility and a lifetime of medical interventions!  

I think the minority of them that do not desist might benefit from these treatments, but it is very important to sort out which is which first!

Also how can this possibly be due to some true and essential gender identity, when the gender identity of childhood is very clearly not the same as the gender identity post-puberty.

I’m willing to accept that a minority of people really do need lifelong hormone and surgical intervention, but I probably differ from you slightly in thinking such treatments should be a last resort for everyone, and that helping people stop dissociating from their own bodies should be the initial goal. That is heresy now, I know.

I would agree that these treatments should be the last thing tried and not the first, and dissociation is one of the first things that should be looked at.  And even for the people these treatments do help, we should continue to look for other ways as well.  Most important is stopping the idea that it is “heresy” to even consider other ways, it has a stifling effect on research and clinical practice.