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ComeAlongPond  ·  3237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Transphobic violence in the punk community

Maybe this is where you should trust the opinions of doctors, and psychologists, and trans people themselves?

As research of transgender people has ramped up in the last decade, more and more studies are coming back to show that this is a natural phenomenon. That the brains of MTF transgender folks skew more toward cisgender females, and FTM folks skew more toward cisgender male.

Your comfort level is obviously not something we can change. But self-education can remove the "doubt" that it's healthy for someone to transition. It's not only healthy, it's life-saving and necessary.





user-inactivated  ·  3237 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Maybe this is where you should trust the opinions of doctors, and psychologists, and trans people themselves?

I do not know their opinions or the studies involved that led to them. However coffeesp00ns has been more than gracious to walk me through this, so we'll see where things go.

    Your comfort level is obviously not something we can change. But self-education can remove the "doubt" that it's healthy for someone to transition. It's not only healthy, it's life-saving and necessary.

I'm not uncomfortable with the issue. I'm admittedly ignorant about it. This is something that I'll probably rectify in the next few days, weeks, maybe even months. What I am uncomfortable about, and always will be uncomfortable about, is progress without temperance. I'm not talking about just the issue of transgenderism, but all realms of scientific progress and how discoveries are utilized in the real world.