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Linoak's avatar

The question is, does any of this matter to the people promoting the ideology or the people providing the interventions? We know that you cannot talk an adolescent out of this with facts and you cannot change the viewpoint of adults who see this as a social justice issue with facts. I don’t see those driving this as any different. They’re not pushing for adolescent/young adult “transition”because they’re looking at the data and seeing a coherent rationale for irreversibly changing the life course of young people and introducing harm in otherwise healthy bodies. I don’t understand what the religious fervor for intervention is based on, but we cannot logic ourselves out of something that isn’t based in reality to begin with.

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Frederick R Prete's avatar

It stands to reason that these self-perceptions could and often would change over time. Such self-perceptions are the product of complex, dynamic neural systems that shape our subjective realities and change both spontaneously and in response to our ongoing experiences. It's not clear to me why anyone would've ever thought they would, in all cases, be permanent, immutable, or stable over one's lifetime... https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/hallucinating-your-inner-trans-reptile

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