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When I see efforts to study detransition being accused of “transphobia,” a few thoughts occurs to me: What are they so afraid of? Don't they care about dysphoric youth? The existence of trans people already proves that transition helps many – that is not what's being questioned.
If there is evidence that transition also harms some, we need to know that so we can help those people, too. Anyone who accuses studies on detransition of being transphobic are ignorant at best and malicious as worst. Stop only thinking of yourselves for once.
Do you think that big Pharma are behind a lot of this? Clearly drugs for transition are new cash cow for the industry
No. This has come from transactivists' efforts to construct and unfalsifiable position on the nature of gender identity, in part to provide personal validation, but also in an effort to 'demedicalise' transition, by which they mean only the removal of diagnostic stage of...
They are afraid therapists will remember that there are other causes for dysphoria than a persistent "trans" identity.
It's because if detrans is real, it totally destroys the foundation of equating LGB (immutable) with T (mutable). There's a reason why T got stuck in the end of LGB - so it could piggyback on the respect, renown and acceptance that that label had accrued.
I believe it is really important to show both sides. I am not sure what makes the discussion transphobic. It is important to be educated.
Any question is heresy.
If they were convinced that this were the right path for anybody, they would be extra keen to study detransitioners the better to weed out the "not-really-trans" patients in advance. But, this is not medicine and bears little resemblance to it.
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