To prove you had / have dysphoria, you have to attempt suicide, but then that gets taken as a sign you're mentally ill and therefore, again, can't be trusted to have an accurate accounting of your own life.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1377739992538050561 …
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Replying to @Gwynnion
Jesse Singal argues "Hey, I'm not a real TERF like Graham Linehan, I do support childhood transition in SOME cases" but then gives criteria for qualifying as "truly" dysphoric that requires threading a needle's eye, and is fucking proud of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gwynnion
"It SHOULD be hard to qualify! You can't give out scary dangerous drugs willy-nilly! Ken Zucker was just trying to be careful!" etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gwynnion
And he literally does do this specific double-play He completely freaked out and launched into a rant because he saw an article about a 17-year-old trans boy (an UNDERAGE PATIENT) getting a radical hysterectomy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gwynnion
Jesse really loves to have ragesplosions any time anything good happens to or for a trans person. He goes into massively aggrieved angry rants about how everyone's doing it wrong and this can't be good for his blood pressure
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Replying to @lisaquestions @Gwynnion
One of his ragesplosions was this random article about "the new non-binary influencers" Mentioning some AMAB enby who said they took a small dose of estradiol every day -- not enough for transition the way trans women do it, but "enough to give me a better hormone balance"
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And lol he was SO MAD "What the FUCK Where's the SCIENCE behind this When did this become a thing, I don't see 'non-binary' anywhere in the DSM, who approved this treatment" For someone taking a MUCH LOWER DOSE of those scary hormones, which apparently is WORSE
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"i don't see this in the dsm" is such a child-grade argument about medication like please my man, you pretend to be an authority on these things, i know you know about the history of the dsm even setting aside the ethics of autonomy, i know you know what a mess that book is
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
"yeah all of these categories are inherited from psychiatric history that we know is mostly bullshit, they're all explicitly clusters of symptoms because we don't know what causes anything, we're really not even sure these are the right way of dividing up the space of disorder--"
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Homosexuality used to be in the DSM, based heavily around ideas of what constituted "natural" gender expression, until it was quietly removed. The DSM merely reflects the prejudices and imperfect understanding of the people working on it.
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Removed for "political reasons", because activists stormed the APA conference and threatened to start doxing prominent gay psychiatrists for being hypocriteshttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1377153528586588160?s=20 …
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