Are you okay with a qualified physician dispensing a professional opinion to someone that their dysmorphia is something they will probably grow out of?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @arthur_affect and
First off it's dysphoria not dysmorphia, second no they probably won't grow out of it.
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Replying to @RadFemme74 @arthur_affect and
Thanks for the correction. Childhood is a time for exploration. Why wouldn't a kid dabble in various identities? Seems closed minded to assume otherwise.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @arthur_affect and
Have you ever actually talked to trans people about their childhoods? And why not just accept trans people as is? Why do people like you always insist trans people need to justify ourselves? Other than you want an excuse to strip trans people of our rights.
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Replying to @RadFemme74 @arthur_affect and
You're attributing opinions to me that I do not have. I'm suggesting an alternative to your binary thinking on this. 1. Trans people exist and should be supported. 2. Some kids who feel trans at a certain age turn out not to be. Both of those statements are true IMO.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @RadFemme74 and
Cool That's fine They should live their lives however makes them happy Saying that they've been "irreparably damaged" and that "thinking you're trans when you're not" is this grievous harm is fundamentally transphobic though
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
The thing is, if you take a strictly neutral view of it -- "Thinking you're trans when you're cis and thinking you're cis when you're trans are exactly equally bad" -- the prevalence of the latter is obviously so much higher that bringing up the former as a problem is a sick joke
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
But yes I know you're carrying water for obnoxious conservatives who play this card with every damn thing "If you think about it, *Christians* are the most oppressed religion in this country" "The people most pressured to renounce their sexuality these days are *straight*"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
It is very analogous to the "ex-gay" phenomenon By what the ex-gay folks think of as the dictionary definition of the term, no one, including today, had or has a problem with what they theoretically mean by "ex-gay"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
I.e. "I used to fuck dudes when I was in my 20s, then I stopped" Fine "I had a serious boyfriend and then I dumped him because I couldn't stand our 'lifestyle' together anymore" That's a shame, but okay "Now the thought of fucking dudes makes me sick" Sorry to hear it man
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"Instead I fell in love with a woman, and we got married in a church, and now we have a monogamous trad life in the suburbs with five kids" Happy to hear it, glad you're doing well "And I'm here to tell you other gay men are like me and need help" Okay NOW we have a problem
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
The term "ex-gay" was loaded for exactly this reason To an extent, yeah, use whatever terminology you want to describe yourself, but "ex-gay" became the name of a movement about branding being gay itself as pathological
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