No, I'm generalizing and you're refusing to do so, it's kind of obvious I'm generally against medical gatekeeping and you're throwing a tantrum about how medical gatekeeping is obviously good in some areas and obviously bad in others
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
I mentioned SSRIs *specifically* as a well known, widely accepted counterexample to your bullshit claim that HRT for trans people is the only time anyone ever prescribes a drug that creates a future dependence on that drug
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
You don’t prescribe SSRI’s *in order to create a dependence on SSRIs* - you prescribe them for depression or OCD. Almost all children with gender dysphoria will grow out of it; puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones turn dysphoria into a life-long medical condition.
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Replying to @Shatterface @arthur_affect and
And we don’t just prescribe SSRIs willy-nilly, and as a permanent solution. We try to determine the root cause; we also try out alternative, non-medical solutions. The point isn’t to perpetuate depression, it is to eliminate it.
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
Oof, this is the part where your opinion becomes almost as terrible as the one about trans people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
This is extra terrible because we were JUST TALKING about the fact that if you start SSRIs you need to be prepared to take them lifelong because they have withdrawal symptoms, that's what killed David Foster Wallace
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
You are like some fucking AI that doesn’t understand the semantic content of a sentence but scans the internet for associated words that look like a reply. You don’t take SSRIs *in order to create withdrawal symptoms at a later date.* Can you not see how stupid that claim is?
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
Yeah and nobody starts HRT with the intention of having withdrawal symptoms later on either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
It all comes down to your absurd, disgusting, offensive claim that dysphoria isn't real and urgent like depression is, it's a passing fancy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
SSRIs and similar drugs are taken to alter the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain, hopefully permanently, in a way that requires the lifelong use of medication to maintain but allows the brain to function better than it did before
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HRT is taken to alter the balance of hormones in the blood, hopefully permanently, in a way that requires the lifelong use of medication to maintain but allows the body to function better (by the standards of its owner) than it did before
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
HRT is given to replace hormones - the clue is in the name. Cross-sex hormones - whichbis what you are talking about - alter the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics. These characteristics begin to revert as soon as you stop taking them. They do not change your sex.
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Replying to @Shatterface @arthur_affect and
If you are taking cross-sex hormones in the belief that they will change your sex ‘hopefully permanently’ you are deluded in both the belief that you are changing sex and that the superficial changes you do make are permanent.
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