Have one in our family.
I predict that in ten years this is going to be like all those child-sex ring witchcraft accusaions that happened nationally in the eighties.
Most found not to be true and the imprisoned released.
Lots of lawsuits.
I would guess any physician who treats these people as actually needing to change their bodies, will eventually be sued into next week. Especially since there is a lot of evidence at John Hopkins that catering to this delusion is dangerous. And since the Academy of Pediatricians have called to not encourage this behavior in young children.
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 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.
It is not treated by amputation unless it is your reproductive organs that you hate.