In light of certain people trying to take away trans people's rights, you might be wondering what the cold, hard, objective science says about trans people. I'd recommend this half hour talk on the subject:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1oVv59o-UQ …
I took a bout a year or so of psych classes and there were a couple of cases that I've been going back to. There are cases where doctors screw up circumcision and the penis is cut effectively off. And they're faced with: fuck what do we do now? 1/n
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In these cases they and the parents decided to completely remove the penis and effectively transition the baby to female, complete with hormones and telling them that they're a girl. Long story short, they're boys raised as girls and none of them survived to adulthood
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They all committed suicide because well they've been denied their gender and coupled with being lied to it was hugely tramatic. I imagine it's little different with denying transgender people their genders (I could be wrong please do correct me if necessary) 3/3
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Veronica Drantz talks about this in the video I linked to, yes. Dr. Money lied about the “success” of lying to David Reimer about him being male (Reimer also killed himself), & this was used as the basis of doctors randomly assigning sexes to intersex babies and mutilating them.
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Even if telling other people what their gender is worked (which it certainly doesn’t), I’ll never understand the mindset of people who do that. Whatever happened to the hipocratic oath?
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Actually, scratch that, I think Julia Serano explains this need cis people have to control/hide others in Whipping Girl. She explains this and also why doctors told trans people to go stealth and hide their history. It’s the same reason.
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