I wouldn't overthink it if it doesn't affect you directly. All you need to know is that the most effective way to alleviate gender dysphoria has been proven to be gender confirmation treatment, be that hormones, surgery, whatever. (...) It used to be, some decades ago, that people in the care industry were supposed to correct any false beliefs or confusion that a person suffering from dementia expressed. The idea was to try and ground them in reality. Doesn't sound bad in theory, right? In practice, this means that when a man with cognitive decline asked where his wife was, you had to tell him that she was dead, inflicting a completely unnecessary grieving process upon him... and then have it happen again an hour later, and again, and again. It should go without saying that this wasn't actually helpful. (...) I think it should go without saying that such treatment of people could be considered nothing short of torture. It did nothing but cause completely unnecessary anguish and stress in people, and while that form of "treatment" was framed as being a way of trying to prevent mental decline... in truth, it was done because people cared more about how they wanted the patients to be than they did about figuring out what the healthiest treatment was.
Even in the case of mental illness, it is NOT always in the interest of the person in question to be treated in a way that tries to force them to conform. (...) It has been proven that gay conversion therapy does more harm than good. It has been proven that gender confirmation treatment is the most effective way to treat gender dysphoria. It has been proven that meeting people with cognitive decline where they are rather than where you want them to be is healthier and kinder to them. Someday we may find some alternate option of treating gender dysphoria, but until then, this is the best treatment we have.
Thanks for the insightful response. I really appreciate that. And I'm not actually requiring you to cite the sources, just being pedantic and telling you so you keep it in mind to do so in future times, but, yeah. Wikipedia kinda trained me to see it this way - it's quality practice. If people did it all the time, more people would learn. ---
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