Interesting post Brian. I wish that law could be more about the individual person than the population because everyone's situation is different. I am not anti-trans but I would like to explore another theory with you, a theory related to affect psychology. We are experiencing a cultural phenomenon with the transgender movement. Do you think that some of it could be related to the images of the idealized female and male bodies constantly flashing in front of children via phones, tablets, computers, and TV? Pornography is everywhere. I have been with teens, female and male, who agonize about their bodies, and 9 times out of 10 they have a steady diet of social media.
I have spoken to adolescents, both biological males and females, who struggle with shame because they feel that they are not considered attractive. A stocky female with hirsutism, PCOS, does not feel pretty, how can they be a female when a female looks like a perfect thin naked woman with perky breasts and smooth tan skin? Children in past generations did not grow up with constant artificially doctored images.
The world tells children that they are fat, ugly, undesirable, they are not beautiful women or handsome men. People both children and adults compare themselves, to the idealized images of male and female in their cultures. Rather than having a culture that accepts all types of women/females, both feminine and masculine, or all types of men, there is complex gender identity, that creates more divisions. Why couldn't we have a welcoming whole where we can just be people, male and female as we have been over hundreds of thousands of years, but different kinds of females and different kinds of males.
I am interested in understanding how shame moderates' transgender identity. The feminist movement is losing women who might have been the more outspoken women's rights activists, masculine types--the feminist pioneers, many of them, were more masculine in their appearance. If they had become men, where would women be today?
We are losing these strong, smart, outspoken biological women to the transgender movement, and to the male identity. Surely the female identity should be a large enough spectrum to hold different types of biological females.
Lastly, consider that the effects of the transgender biological sex changes are no different than the goal of the eugenics movement. Honestly, this seems like human engineering to me. I don't know if this movement is as humanistic as it seems to be on the surface... I like to look deeper, because I care about the most vulnerable.
What organizations, billionaires, movements, want less desirable biological males and females to lose the ability to procreate, to be sterilized, and prevented from having offspring? If you find out, you might discover the orchestrators of our American cultural phenomenon....
As a healthcare provider, my priority is caring for children and families, and supporting their mental health and welfare, which may conflict with my personal concerns or beliefs. All kinds of people, all kinds of biological males and females, I love them all, no matter what. It is important to express positive affect, while also doing due diligence in a holistic assessment, and asking the right questions, to help them decide what is best for them. Ultimately the patient/family are the captains of their ship, and we just make sure they can understand the map, including where the rocks are.
Interesting post Brian. I wish that law could be more about the individual person than the population because everyone's situation is different. I am not anti-trans but I would like to explore another theory with you, a theory related to affect psychology. We are experiencing a cultural phenomenon with the transgender movement. Do you think that some of it could be related to the images of the idealized female and male bodies constantly flashing in front of children via phones, tablets, computers, and TV? Pornography is everywhere. I have been with teens, female and male, who agonize about their bodies, and 9 times out of 10 they have a steady diet of social media.
I have spoken to adolescents, both biological males and females, who struggle with shame because they feel that they are not considered attractive. A stocky female with hirsutism, PCOS, does not feel pretty, how can they be a female when a female looks like a perfect thin naked woman with perky breasts and smooth tan skin? Children in past generations did not grow up with constant artificially doctored images.
The world tells children that they are fat, ugly, undesirable, they are not beautiful women or handsome men. People both children and adults compare themselves, to the idealized images of male and female in their cultures. Rather than having a culture that accepts all types of women/females, both feminine and masculine, or all types of men, there is complex gender identity, that creates more divisions. Why couldn't we have a welcoming whole where we can just be people, male and female as we have been over hundreds of thousands of years, but different kinds of females and different kinds of males.
I am sensitive to transgender children and adults, but the research is not strong in support of sex changes for minor youth. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958742?icd=login_success_email_match_norm
I am interested in understanding how shame moderates' transgender identity. The feminist movement is losing women who might have been the more outspoken women's rights activists, masculine types--the feminist pioneers, many of them, were more masculine in their appearance. If they had become men, where would women be today?
We are losing these strong, smart, outspoken biological women to the transgender movement, and to the male identity. Surely the female identity should be a large enough spectrum to hold different types of biological females.
Lastly, consider that the effects of the transgender biological sex changes are no different than the goal of the eugenics movement. Honestly, this seems like human engineering to me. I don't know if this movement is as humanistic as it seems to be on the surface... I like to look deeper, because I care about the most vulnerable.
What organizations, billionaires, movements, want less desirable biological males and females to lose the ability to procreate, to be sterilized, and prevented from having offspring? If you find out, you might discover the orchestrators of our American cultural phenomenon....
As a healthcare provider, my priority is caring for children and families, and supporting their mental health and welfare, which may conflict with my personal concerns or beliefs. All kinds of people, all kinds of biological males and females, I love them all, no matter what. It is important to express positive affect, while also doing due diligence in a holistic assessment, and asking the right questions, to help them decide what is best for them. Ultimately the patient/family are the captains of their ship, and we just make sure they can understand the map, including where the rocks are.
Farah