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Originally Posted by Rathji
A person who has typical 'female' thought processes is having valid thoughts, even if their body is male. Unless you are claiming that female thought processes themselves are invalid, then that's another story. The issues caused by that mind being in that body, are a totally different thing, and not what I was referring to at all.
So we shouldn't fix them to conform, we should just alleviate their thought processes to they are more like the rest of us? Isn't that the exact same thing?
I agree, the LGBT community is a lot like the deaf community in that way. Doesn't mean we get to decide that who they are as people is invalid though so we can 'alleviate their thought processes' to be like us. There are many cultures where transgendered people are an important part of the community, such as the Two-Spirit denotation in native communities.
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I would be interested to know what contstitutes a typical 'female thought process', are we talking liking pink, a desire to ride ponies? seriously there is no such thing as female or male thought.
And no one is telling them to do a thing least of all me, I just question the idea that in some way gender dysmorphia is different from the various other forms of dysmorphia we are slowly learning about, that essentially gender dysmorphia is somehow 'right' where as anorexics are effed up and sick.
If gender dysmorphia is in fact due solely to an aberhent section of the brain and in fact they arn't actually a woman trapped inside a mans body but are suffering from a specific neurological condition people should be told that so they can accuratly decide what they want to do.
If someone has a some genetic condition that causes them problems in the world and we can prescribe them a pill and those problems go away that isn't 'invalidating them', they have already sought help, they are not happy with who they are, why would we choose to persue a form of treatment that doesnt fix the condition at all but superficially treats some of the symptoms with risky, painfull surgery that doesn't help a quarter of the suffer's at all and even in the rest rarely provides them with what they want in order to keep a political lobby happy.