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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Encouraging their delusion denies them the help they need.

Except transitioning is typically not done without consulting medical professionals, who make that recommendation only if it's what's most likely to be beneficial for their specific case. In many cases, acceptance is the help they need. Like any medical decision, that's not guaranteed to be the right treatment, but if you actually care about someone, you take your concerns about their treatment to their doctor, rather than refusing to cooperate with the treatment so they get bombarded with mixed messages.

It doesn't matter how much "this is for their own good" transphobes spout, it's not going to change that that's nothing more than a self-righteous justification for being uncomfortable with the idea and deciding that they know better than doctors. I don't know if transitioning will end up being the gold standard for treating gender dysphoria. Nobody does. For now, though, it's what we've got, so shut up and let science do its job, cooperating with doctors as much as is necessary to help science along while it figures out how best to proceed.
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