Comments on: There’s a new study telling us what we already knew: that most adolescents unhappy with their sex grow out of that feeling if you just let them grow up without medical intervention

By: Someone+Else

Someone+Else — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 08:30:34 +0000

When I was about nine years old, I wanted to get my hair cut like the boys’ hair on my class. I didn’t want to be a boy. I didn’t want to even dress like a boy. I had a pair of jeans that I hated because I thought they were too “boy-ee.”

My parents told me a couldn’t get my hair cut like that.

That was forty-odd years ago.

I worry about how many little nine year guild in the last couple of years were pushed into some sort of gender nonsense because they just wanted a certain kind of haircut.

By: Richard+Aubrey

Richard+Aubrey — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:43:38 +0000

Principal of an upscale high school said kids sort themselves by mental illnesses. Not jocks, nerds, and suchlike as cannot get through auto-correct.
And use social media to, in effect, compete.
Hate to wish anybody difficulty, but may be a couple of real-world problems might be useful in these situations.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:06:36 +0000

I remember the hidden memory hysteria where young women were encouraged to falsely remember being molested by their father. And then there were the daycare scandals where little children encouraged to falsely testify of molestation by the school teachers.
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In fairness to psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, some of the worst scandals (the McMartin and Ramona cases in California) were the work not of that crew but of junior grade mental health tradesmen.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:59:42 +0000

Art Deco. You paint with too broad a brush, but it’s certainly true that significant fractions of psychiatry and psychology are very twisted.
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I was referring more than anything else to the hospital administrators who saw to that objectors were dismissed from their positions or taken off the attending list. These bureaucrats aren’t all psychiatrists and clinical psychologists and in any case the trans-craze requires the work of endocrinologists and surgeons as well. There are aslo internists, paedeatricians, &c implicated.
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And I do not just have the trans issue in mind.
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Just to take one example in a related field was the ENT specialist some years back who was stripped of his admitting privileges at four hospitals in greater Boston. (IIRC, he had a salaried position at one of them from which he was dismissed as well). His offense was that he had composed and circulated an intra-office memorandum saying that homosexuality was associated with a menu of medical problems and that physicians should discourage it.
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A different phenomonon is manifest in the person of Dr. Peter Szilagyi. He used to practice in Rochester and was on the attending list at the University medical center, so I’d heard his name before. He’s now in southern California. Szilagyi was the chair of the advisory committee which unanimously recommended that the queue for the distribution of COVID vaccines give priority to Democratic Party clients over medical-sector employees, elder care clients, and old people. The excuse, as always, was ‘diversity’.
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One other thing one can do is to look at sketchy resolutions and ‘professional standards’ adopted by the boards of various guilds, the American Association of Medical Colleges, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics in particular.
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Rank-and-file doctors may be above board. They’re not the ones typically calling the shots.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:55:32 +0000

Bring back stigma! If all the positive trans visibility were replaced by, or even just tempered with, a little stigma I believe the numbers would drop dramatically. And no, not because trans children would be forced into the closet; but because they would see how preposterous it all is. But I could be wrong.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:09:37 +0000

As I have pointed out before, gender is just a social construction and it is imaginary, like unicorns and dragons. Just substitute imaginary for gender and you’ll be OK. For example, change “gender identity” to “imaginary identity”.

By: Dax

Dax — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:47:38 +0000

“It’s sad that it takes an academic study to confirm what common sense could have told us.”

Common sense will soldier on, regardless of academic studies.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:36:24 +0000

The parents (or probably more accurately the Mothers) that forced their children into this, should pay a heavy price for their actions. The children may well inflict the parents will consequences. Hopefully they will not hurt others though as some already have done

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 02:32:55 +0000

I’m a dinosaur and my childhood was one of innocence.

I don’t recall ever wondering about my gender, never occurred to me that there was anything to wonder about. I experienced the usual teenage turmoil concerning sex and girls, but gender had nothing to do with it. For better or worse, I was just me.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 02:20:41 +0000

Re: Recovered memories

neo:

Quite so. Another reason not to treat our avant-garde therapist types with any authority.