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[โ€“] Hacksaw 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh yes, the people who had surgery and regretted it and are now forced to live with the side effects, please tell me more about how no other surgery but gender affirming care has risks and side effects. Ridiculous.

I was BARELY paraphrasing your story about how antisocial people should just be made to socialise and be more normal instead of letting them be antisocial. That's HARDLY the strawman you make it out to be. I also love how you get all up in a tizzy about barely being misquoted then do the same thing to me in your post.

Your incorrect use of the word "reinforcement" in this context has been corrected by others so at this point I can see you're simply incapable of learning and improving yourself.

As for your claim to being "sick of people... fail[ing] to see [trans] people need fucking help", if you really cared to help trans people you'd know that every reputable long term study of mental health from gender dysphoria shows the best long term outcome is from gender affirming care. Not from the neo-conversion therapy type approaches you're clamering for. THAT's why gender affirming care is now MEDICINE, and not forcing them to forget about being trans and just be normal or in your words move away from their dysmorphic view. Gender affirming care doesn't mean surgery, it means letting them live how they want, and present themselves how they feel. This would have been the natural state of society of we didn't have such rigid Christian gender norms. Certainly everyone else presents themselves how they feel. We know of several societies past and present where gender divergence was widely accepted with no issues so this isn't even a new concept, it's just letting the Christian cultural hegemony die.