Being “transgender” is a psychological/psychiatric syndrome like anorexia - an obsession in an idea that rejects the persons own real identity.
Why it starts at such a young age, before most persons have any “sexual” notions at all, must involve a series of very subtle things not usually recognized as “trigger” events at all, but in the “transgender” child lead to the adoption of the obsession against their physical identity. But an irrational obsession it is.
The acceptance of the obsession by adults ignores the fact that just like anorexia the mind, our own mind, IS capable of lying to us, of convincing us of things, even about our self, that are just not true. We can be blind and live those untruths. Saying it is right and that we should be happy about doing so is a bigger lie.
There have been a number of “transgender” adults who finally got the extensive professional help they never got as a child, and came to understand the mistake the obsession had been all along. They have admitted that they and most “transgender” persons they know never did come to a constant truly happy end to the inner conflict, even after “transgender” surgery.
Yes, empathy IS & understanding IS called for. Acceptance is not.
It is nice to see some movement on a subject that has been mired in 1950’s psychology. It is interesting that a such a “disease” that requires such drastic mutilation, has not been researched using post-millennial tools and techniques. When someone is “diagnosed” as transgender where are the CAT scans, MRIs, blood work, DNA work and other diagnostic techniques that would search for biological causation? None.
Where are the psychological diagnostic instruments that would confirm or deny? None.
Where are the trials of antipsychotics, antianxiety agents and psychotherapy to test the contents of the patient’s beliefs? None.
Where is the research about diagnostic decisions trees that include biological paradigms? None.
Instead we are told that the patient makes the diagnosis. Because they have felt like the opposite sex from their DNA since they can remember. Not accounting for the fact that in delusional processes, the past is incorporated in the delusions i.e.: when I treat the secretary who thinks she is the Queen of England, although her delusional onset may be recent (within a matter of months or days, at times) her delusions will include memories of being a child-queen, for acute delusional processes are often seamless.
Parents who arrive at schools and clinics with children dressed and raised as their DNA opposites are hailed as brave instead of studied as classic cases of Munchhausen by Proxy where parents seek attention by making up and believing the child is different, ill or diseased and providing symptoms and evidence to back the parent’s need.