go back to LinkedIn, clanker

I listen to the BBC, there are no adverts. Particularly BBC Radio 4. It’s got very little music, it’s mainly documentaries or current affairs or dramas. I ended up finding that it calms me down because I start to recognise the voices of the newsreaders and continuity announcers. If you’re outside of the United Kingdom, you may have the BBC World Service available. British BBC radio stations can be found online, though.

The mental blacklist is so relatable, by the way.

Horrifying. Thank you.

Like medical practicioners won’t worry about someone who wants to be the opposite sex but isn’t going under any form of mental trauma, etc

I don’t know and I don’t really care. A wild guess I’d tell you that there’s a mix of africans, europeans and asians. It’s irrelevant to the issue at hand anyway. Or this thread.

You’re a hexbear user, why don’t we post beanis or something

Isn’t that more of the philosophical debate over the topic over the medical debate?

I don’t care what race they are. It’s disregarding and taking advantage of our trust based society. I even know middle eastern immigrants here on work visas who have had far harsher words about them than I do.

What’s transmedicalism? And what are the opposing viewpoints and why?

I enjoy the human aspect of discussions quite a bit. I like getting to understand my fellow human and their struggles

My (and most people’s) issue with people crossing the English Channel illegally has got nothing to do with race. I’ve never mentioned race. I haven’t actually met a single person IRL who doesn’t have an issue with it happening.

I recommend you ask for a refund on whatever psychic or psychology courses you think you’re taking, because you’re terrible at trying to read my mind or intentions.

I used to have issues with my own gender, I know people who did. My issues were ironed out. Some of my friends had their issues ironed out, and I know a few people who admitted in the past they briefly identified as transgender. Again, I also know people who still identify as transgender and I actually fully believe them when they talk about their dysphoria and bow it affects them. I can see why in this case, a sex change operation would be necessary. The latter person did say they’d also be happy if there was a cure for dysphoria to make them be happy with their sex, but there isn’t and they’re not. So I’m not too sure about all of this, as someone who was placed on a bit of an “escalator” by friends and people online when I was younger.

For what it’s worth, I do think it’s worth asking children why they want to be the opposite sex. For me it was a matter of shame. I know that some others felt similarly, that we didn’t fit society’s stereotypes. I believe this can be addressed by showing people how men/women don’t have to be conforming to xyz. At the same time, I believe genuine gender dysphoria exists and such a thing won’t work with people who have it. Which we have no known cure for. I’m basically mainly shaped by my own experience growing up in this society.

If puberty blockers truly don’t cause irreversible changes, then I don’t have an issue with teenagers being administered them if they are determined to have gender dysphoria. Some people say they do, some people say they don’t. I’m not qualified to speak on the scientific aspects, just my own ethical and moral aspects of it.

Well hopefully it gets fixed then. We should be trusting the scientists who are qualified and have done impartial studies instead of wrapping this issue up in philosophical positions

Confusing topic… What are other things trans people have?

Yeah the latter shouldn’t have happened. We should trust the scientists more.

I have no problem with legal immigrants. In fact, I think we need to be more accommodating to them.

is it based on a political presupposition or nah

I have heard people claim it’s possible to be trans without gender dysphoria. Really muddies the waters over what the aim is. I just want people with gender dysphoria to have it eased/cured (only if actually possible) and have a more comfortable life where they aren’t suffering. If someone learns to accept their biological sex, or if they medically transition to achieve this, either way, it’s a win. Different people likely have different needs. But hey, I’ll leave that to the medical professionals. The more we understand gender dysphoria and how to treat it, the better.

I hope you’re doing better now. I hear other people claim that about the pro-trans side. But I do believe politics should be kept out of medicine.

Ooof this seems a bit problematic. The NHS is a neutral, non-biased healthcare service. Their interest is on treating humans well and considering all of the evidence available. LGBT articles would of course be one sided, and are more based on presuppositions in order to find the results or defend their claims and thus organisations, as opposed to trying to figure out from scratch which position is true (the scientific method)

why early medical (not necessarily any kind of surgery) is very important to keep young trans people safe or just stay out of this topic. I lost too many LGBT friends thanks to terrible medical care availability, constant harassment and discrimination, and so on.

I’m more interested in evidence over guilt tripping. I’d trust the NHS’s conclusions, which I know they have carefully considered and adjusted over the years as new information surfaces.

If it’s 16, then fair enough

But more importantly, going through the wrong puberty isn’t life changing?

I believe whether or not the term “wrong” to describe puberty in this instance is the subject of debate, both medical and philosophical. I have even heard some claims that puberty can fix gender dysphoria (although I don’t know how scientific this is, so don’t quote me)

If the NHS have decided not to give puberty blockers, well they have people making these decisions who are far more educated than me in this area and probably moreso than you, so I trust their judgement.

I was speaking to someone yesterday here in the UK’s who’s secondary school children were forced to download 9 apps… He didn’t even want to give them a smartphone at that age

During that period, I get stubborn. This makes me weirdly stubborn for a few minutes.