Okay, you might have been but the context was specifically that of transgender children. Again, just because the majority of people that visit these clinics are adults, it takes nothing away from the fact that toddlers are taken there too. This whole tangent started because of a discussion around the increasing number of children being taken to gender therapists.
This last part I agree with. There is no way to know the details in each case, but I still find it strange how parents can perceive that their child has gender identity issues at 3. It makes no sense to me.
By trend followers I specifically am referring to young adults/teenagers who may still be under the minimum age for which they can receive surgeries. There is no way you could tell whether each person was making a real effort to transition or not as many trans people struggle with passing, especially if they are older. It is trendy. Being non-binary or gender queer or a demi-girl/boy is very much trendy. This is another reason why I dislike the LGBT community. The original LGB movement was meant to be a collective of people with alternative sexual orientations. Gender has nothing to do with sexuality. And yet transgenderism was easily able to hitch a ride on its coattails. And now, the term "trans" has become an umbrella for anyone who feels they can use it regardless of whether they have GID or not, or even whether they transition or not. If anything, this a hindrance to real trans people. I would not say that trans people face an "extreme" amount of discrimination and stigmatisation in the West. Other countries, most definitely. But depending on where they're located, western society has pretty much accepted and mainstreamed the issue.
But that makes no sense. Either gender dysphoria is a requisite for transgenderism, in which case it would be an inherent trait that they have no control over, or gender is fluid and selected depending on feelings, making it a choice and something within their control. I mean, people can literally "identify" as gender fluid or flux or something like that.
The preposed misalignment between sexual differentiation of the brain and body as a cause of GID remains a tenuous theory that has still not proven to be infallibly true. There is room for a genetic component but it has not been confirmed and remains a murky area of study. There are also studies that claim that "gendered" brains do not exist. The main twin study used a sample size of 23 monozygotic female and male twins, nine (39.1%) of which were concordant for GID. Hardly a solid case. There are indications that it is statistically more likely than average for twins to be transgender but it is far from guaranteed.This is one of many reasons that doctors have not nailed down the specific reasons for being transgender. It is not consistently found in twins so it can’t just be genetic.
Gender roles originated from a basis in biological norms. What is it that influences someone's gender identity? Their being able to relate to or desire to reject certain gender roles? Attachment to stereotypical interests belonging to the opposite sex? If gender roles are social, then how does that work? How does a man who relates to the social, fluctuating standards of being a woman determine that he should have a vagina and that his anatomy is incorrect?
But many trans people still commit suicide post transition. I'm not suggesting anyone be forced into living their lives a certain way. I'm saying that we've progressed in terms of technology and medicine. Researchers have access to far greater resources than they had in the past. It's not entirely insane to believe another alternative treatment that could significantly lower the suicide rate could be possible.
I dunno, you seemed pretty insistent earlier that being trans is completely out their control and that the root of transgenderism was gender dysphoria.
Nah, not really. You must have misread what I wrote because I never once claimed there were only two genders as though it were objective truth. I only ever asserted that that was my subjective truth. That was the whole point of this comment. Maybe quote the full thing next time. I literally said "But just like I can't prove that there isn't an infinite number of genders, they can't prove there is. Their identities are relative to their own realities, not mine and I personally don't believe in more than two genders." I didn't equate being non-binary to identifying as a jar of mayonnaise lol, I meant to point out that people can literally claim to be able to identify as anything unironically, and by your own logic no one can tell them they are incorrect. There are people in other countries identifying as different species or races, even ages. They're fringe cases, sure, but the point still remains.