Trans issues

[mrjonathanr]

Is it? Not up to date on that tbh. I have some Jewish heritage, you are correct on that. Was used to specify gender despite being very old fashioned, but according to google you have a point. Other posters may know more. Thanks for pointing out!

 

[stone]

What us "gender-critical" types dispute is 1) that this subjective (but very real) feeling of distress is explained by people having a brain trapped in the "wrong" body and 2) that this should be treated by bringing the body into alignment with the ailing mind. Gender dysphoria is the only mental illness we treat this way. We don't treatment anorexia with liposuction; we don't treat OCD with hand-washing.

To me the whole point is that trans people often find that they benefit from gender affirmation treatment and go on to live happily. By contrast my impression is that anorexia and OCD cause ever greater mental and physical distress/danger if their impulses are re-enforced. A mental health practitioner told me that the be-all-end-all of mental health care was to enable people to live well -that was all that mattered.

You seem to be saying that because you can't get your head around why trans people want to be as they are, that is reason enough to give them a hard time. I disagree. It's their lives to live as they wish and we should respect and cherish them as they choose to be IMO. I don't really care whether some theory behind their identity is or isn't sound -and even if I did I would still think that my opinion about that was immaterial. Perhaps it is a bit like how I think religious freedom is really important to defend even though I'm an atheist myself.