Post 4255557 - (XFilesGeek's Guide to Transphobia!)

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[quote="Apple_in_my_Eye"][quote="RikersBeard"]I do sympathize with transsexuals, but, like 95% of the human race I cannot accept you, rationally or emotionally, as anything other than transsexuals, not the gender you "feel" you are. I think it's rather brutal the way the medical community treat gender dysphoria. It is, in my mind, a mental illness and should be treated as such with psychological techniques, but we don't even try anymore for fear of upsetting post-ops. So they sell you a nice wedge of false hope and mutilate you. Good job guys.

As my signature suggests, it is often better to face reality head on.[/quote]
Historically,  all attempts at treating GID with therapy have failed.  There have been 70 years of attempts to do so.  The decision to treat with transition was made due to psych professionals not being able to figure out what else to do to keep their patients from killing themselves.  It has nothing to do with "upsetting post-ops."  The suicide rate is reputed to be about 50% (though I have not seen really solid studies on that number).

[quote]Wedge of false hope?[/quote]
I'm going to guess that you are envisioning a stereotypical man-in-a-dress with 5 o'clock shadow trying act feminine.  Like Mr. Garrison on South Park.  There are plenty,  especially those who transition young (or even have an intersex condition so that they already looked like their target gender) who are indistinguishable from "normal people."  You're already accepting them,  you just don't know it.

Some others who can't pass find that they still prefer to be transitioned despite all the ill treatment,  ignorance,  and crap they receive.  IIRC,  the rate of de-transitioning is less than 10%.

Also,  the fact is that most transsexuals do not transition.  They find other ways to cope.  Those for whom that isn't enough are the minority who end up on the transition track.  And in order to end up on that track a person has to undergo at least a year of therapy.  They also have to spend a year (or two) of being able to "pass" as their target gender.  That means being able to work,  having a social life,  and not having serious psychological or adjustment problems.  If they can't function in their target gender,  they do not get medical approval to go forward.  The medical protocol (called "WPATH") is designed to make transition the last resort.

[quote]I think it's rather brutal the way the medical community treat gender dysphoria.[/quote]
It doesn't sound like you actually know what the medical community does.

As far as "facing reality,"  that's the same kind of thinking that lead to homosexuality being in the DSM.  It's obviously "reality" that people can only really be heterosexual. Doesn't someone's being gay just *seem* psychological?   It does,  but only if you assume that other people are exactly like yourself on the inside.  It's a kind of cognitive arrogance that leads to flawed reasoning and illogical conclusions.[/quote]

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