LogFAQs > #886025586

LurkerFAQs, Active DB, Database 1 ( 03.09.2017-09.16.2017 ), DB2, DB3, DB4, DB5, DB6, DB7, DB8, DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear

Topic List	Page List: 1
Topic	Are you accepting and supportive of transgender people?
Soviet_Poland 09/04/17 7:24:58 PM #145:	Shadow Flare posted... I'm pretty neutral, but at the very least I'm civil. I do sometimes feel that transgenerism etc is just a mental illness, much like body dysmorphia and a bodybuilder etc thinking there's something wrong with them so they train to improve their image etc. Gender dysmorphia IS a thing, I'm not entirely sure exacerbating the condition with hormones etc is really necessary or even healthy in the long term, but to each their own, I guess. According to the DSM-V, transgenderism is not a mental illness and gender dysphoria is not an interchangable term with transgenderism. Meaning, not all TG individuals experience dysphoria. There is some evidence, albeit low quality evidence, that hormone replacement therapy or SRS does improve quality of life. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19473181 Realistically though, there still isn't enough literature to conclude one way or another. Now that subtlety will likely be lost on CE, because it seems most of you argue in the sense of your intuitions, sentiments, and world views rather than evidence, but I digress. Frankly, I don't understand CE's obsession with this topic. TG is a very personal issue and decisions on treatment should be a risk/benefit analysis with them and their doctor(s). It's classification of mental illness or not is largely irrelevant--the nature of mental illness changes with increasing understanding of the disease processes, as well as cultural considerations of the human experience. Homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness, after all. The current understanding of these things is an interplay between psychological, social, and biological factors and there aren't easy, clear-cut lines demarcating these boundaries. It's multifactorial. So pedantic arguments about mind vs body and such just expose how little one knows about this topic and highlights the fucked up nature of when expert topics get politicized such that people with no real background knowledge on the matter seemingly think their opinion or voice matters. Still, since it does have a social component, I guess that's why it's such a shitfest, but I'm boggled as to why humans are so shitty to others sometimes simply due to misunderstanding. Or a weakness on their part to refuse to challenge their world views. More people ought to read Plato's allegory of the cave (but now I'm just rambling). --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete." <cite>Soviet_Poland posted [p:886025586] in Are you ac... [t:75740046]...</cite> <quote><cite>Shadow Flare posted...</cite> <quote>I'm pretty neutral, but at the very least I'm civil. I do sometimes feel that transgenerism etc is just a mental illness, much like body dysmorphia and a bodybuilder etc thinking there's something wrong with them so they train to improve their image etc. Gender dysmorphia IS a thing, I'm not entirely sure exacerbating the condition with hormones etc is really necessary or even healthy in the long term, but to each their own, I guess.</quote> According to the DSM-V, transgenderism is not a mental illness and gender dysphoria is not an interchangable term with transgenderism. Meaning, not all TG individuals experience dysphoria. There is some evidence, albeit low quality evidence, that hormone replacement therapy or SRS does improve quality of life. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19473181 Realistically though, there still isn't enough literature to conclude one way or another. Now that subtlety will likely be lost on CE, because it seems most of you argue in the sense of your intuitions, sentiments, and world views rather than evidence, but I digress. Frankly, I don't understand CE's obsession with this topic. TG is a very personal issue and decisions on treatment should be a risk/benefit analysis with them and their doctor(s). It's classification of mental illness or not is largely irrelevant--the nature of mental illness changes with increasing understanding of the disease processes, as well as cultural considerations of the human experience. Homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness, after all. The current understanding of these things is an interplay between psychological, social, and biological factors and there aren't easy, clear-cut lines demarcating these boundaries. It's multifactorial. So pedantic arguments about mind vs body and such just expose how little one knows about this topic and highlights the fucked up nature of when expert topics get politicized such that people with no real background knowledge on the matter seemingly think their opinion or voice matters. Still, since it does have a social component, I guess that's why it's such a shitfest, but I'm boggled as to why humans are so shitty to others sometimes simply due to misunderstanding. Or a weakness on their part to refuse to challenge their world views. More people ought to read Plato's allegory of the cave (but now I'm just rambling). --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1