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[–] Gake_The_Cake ago
So what he's getting at is a brain thats "structured like a female brain." While I don't completely agree with it it's a decent enough point. I would argue that they simply need treatment to have the correct formation of their brain, but hey, what do I know- that's literally how we treat disorders in literally all other cases.
[–] LazarusLong ago (edited ago)
You could probably prevent it if you caught it early enough, but it would be pretty hard to change after birth and probably even harder after puberty.
If you can accurately identify the condition, its probably a lot easier and safer to change the body as opposed to the brain.
Of course that runs the risk of fucking someone up who didn't actually have a mismatched brain.
A bunch of overzealous doctors in the 1900's made this mistake kind of in reverse, see David Reimer.
Changing the parts of the brain responsible for gender identity, brain gender, etc obviously runs little risk outside of making someone more/less of what they already were. If we could do it safely to begin with.
Its not something I really have an opinion on one way or the other, but some people have even proposed that homosexuals and perhaps transgender people are evolutionarily advantageous in certain situations.
So, there could be a chance its something we don't want to "cure."
[–] Gake_The_Cake ago (edited ago)
Is there a point to not curing something that causes instability in society?
The reason I raise this point is that the SJW's have been pushing for trans acceptance for a long time, but even in "liberal" areas they're still absolutely hated. We need to come to terms of our reality: acceptance isn't an easy road. The problem is- even after we accept them, they won't accept themselves. Besides the fact that even liberals have a damn hard time accepting them. We need to stop playing that zero sum game and stop living a fairy tail. We're hurting them by giving into their mental disorder. We need a cure. The alternative is heartless.
EDIT: And as for the David Reimer case. We really should rely on genetic sex to determine which gender they should be assigned. Other than that; people that don't match XX or XY profile are special cases- these are the true transgender people.
[–] voat-ist ago
Except homosexuality.
[–] Gake_The_Cake ago
Pray the gay away failed because it wasn't based on science. What I'm asking for is an actual scientific response. Pray the gay away was an act of disgust, I'm asking for an act of love. That said, homosexuality isn't very damaging for the people that "suffer" from it- if you can even call it suffering.
Unlike transgender it's not hostile to one's own being. I don't really see any reason it should be a priority except in hostile cultures such as Russia.