Dysphoria & Mental Health
If you could 100% reliably brain scan a person and it says this person is “transexual”—then I would be fine.
Gender Dysphoria, previously known as the gender identity disorder, is an issue that should be treated within society, which is a real disorder that should be treated but it doesn’t mean these are people of the opposite sex. The DSM-5 gives a gender dysphoria prevalence of 0.005% to 0.014% of people assigned male at birth (5-14 per 100k) and 0.002% to 0.003% of people assigned female at birth (2-3 per 100k). Nobody should discriminated or be hateful towards those with gender dysphoria—at the same time it shouldn’t be promoted to people especially children. Many of these people already have pre-existing mental illnesses and may be caused due to those condition.
It typically begins in early childhood—ages two to four—though it may grow more severe in adolescence. But in most cases—nearly 70 percent—childhood gender dysphoria resolves. Historically, it afflicted a tiny sliver of the population (roughly .01 percent) and almost exclusively boys. Before 2012, in fact, there was no scientific literature on girls ages eleven to twenty-one ever having developed gender dysphoria at all.
Evidence
- 41% suicide thoughts
- Overlap between Gender Dysphoria and Autism link
- Cass’ research instead reveals that children who think they are transgender disproportionately have mental health issues stemming from a difficult family situation or domestic abuse. They are also more likely to be neurodiverse and have a co-morbid autism spectrum disorder. CASS Study
- Autogynephilia
- Autogynephilia is defined as a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as female.
Social Contagion
I am concerned by the spread of trans ideology as before 1946 only 0.8% of people identified as LGBT, now in 2023 9% globally identify as LGBT+. This massive increase isn’t just because people feel freer to identify as LGBT, it’s a new social capital and attention generator that has been valorized. The increase has been shown is not just due to increases awareness or acceptance, due to how their developing in clusters of girls, inside friend groups, in addition these girls didn’t have gender dysphoria when they were young.
Evidence
- Nearly 30% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ, national survey finds
- Jonathan Haidt on the unnatural rise of gender dysphoria
- Compares it to smoking and how it spreads, friends, friends of friends and so on.
- For girls, especially with social media, the more anxious and depressed you are the more you’ll get support. Good to destigmatize, but not valorize it.
- Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? - by Katie Herzog
Kids
The idea that children are evaluating the world and due to their innocence, ignorance and mailability of the world, but a great value in the opinions or “facts” that their parents, the people around them, the media they consume. The idea of putting into the minds of a growing child an alternative lifestyle is unnecessary and counter-productive for society. The tiny percentage of people that will have gender dysphoria, it should happen not aided by the influences of outside of themselves. It is very important to establishes rules and roles for kids, the idea you can just leave a child out there in the wild, you don’t treat them like that with nutrition, education etceteras. Teaching children to embrace their sex is a good thing and there’s obviously exceptions to every rule. A boy might be more effeminate and they shouldn’t be bullied or mistreated, but to suggest that makes them trans or a member of the opposite sex ends in a irreversible path of confusion and psychic pain.
The notion you teach 5 year old kids you can be the member of the opposite sex is deeply disturbing, chaotic, and wrong.
Evidence
- Most children with gender dysphoria will not remain gender dysphoric after puberty. Children with persistent GID are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than children with desisting gender dysphoria. With regard to sexual orientation, the most likely outcome of childhood GID is homosexuality or bisexuality. J. Am. Acad. Child and Adolesc. Psychiatry, 2008;47(12):1413–1423.
Biology as Truth
A person with gender dysphoria, a true diagnosis of it is a terrible thing, but it doesn’t make that person a member of the opposite sex. The only way to discover your trans is you don’t feel compatible with the biology that is on your birth certificate.
Pronouns
I’m not against using it personally if people want; but I shouldn’t be forced to use it by law of bullied by society for it.
How it affects all of us
Society setting a rule it affects me personally. Asking me to go along with a lie. Trans has people terrified to speak the truth of biology for some time now. Instead of conversation, they attempt to stop all conversation and only want their ideas to dominate. Truth matters and the attempt to get society at large to say that there are more than two sexes or you can become an opposite sex is wrong—even if the intention is to be compassionate, which I agree with, to people with proper gender dysphoria.