This article aims more on the real psychological and biological issues within the ‘T’ part of the ‘LGBTQ+’ and other related issues. Studies, statistics, and logical conclusions with a fair pair of science/critical thinking and emotions will also be provided in this article, as well as the sources & references.

The following points will be explained at the bottom of this page (click ℹ️ for the source):

General Information

• Gender and sex are directly related.
• Intersex is a birth defect, not a gender.
• 65-94% of teenagers with gender dysphoria (if dealt with correctly) eventually cease to identify as transgender and usually end up as gay or bisexual. ℹ️
• A good amount of people who identify as transgender, aren’t actually transgender and have never suffered from gender dysphoria. Instead, they are usually just fetishists (i.e., Transvestic fetishism & Autogynephilia/Blanchard’s transsexualism typology). ℹ️

Harm

• Promoting such false/risky ‘treatments’ causes social costs (e.g., transgender children, false diagnosis).
• Promoting gender identity ideologies causes medical confusion & editing of language (examples down below).

Suicide

• Transgenders have a higher suicide attempt rate than people with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, black people during slavery in the U.S., and Asians during internment camps in the US. ℹ️
• Transgenders who undergo sex reassignment surgery are more likely to commit suicide ℹ️
• 50%+ of transgenders have tried and failed to commit suicide. ℹ️
• 65% of transgender youth have seriously considered suicide within the last year. ℹ️
• 37%+ of transgender youth have attempted suicide within the last year. ℹ️
• 1 in 10 young transgenders have attempted suicide more than 3 times in the last year. ℹ️

Mental Health Issues

• Most young transgenders have committed self-harm within the last 12 months. ℹ️
• 1/3 transgenders are being treated for mental health. ℹ️
• 85%+ of transgenders show signs of psychological distress or have been recently treated for mental health. ℹ️
• Transgender college students are five times more likely than all students to have an eating disorder. ℹ️
• 44%+ of transgenders show signs of clinical depression. ℹ️

Risks

• Transgenders are four times more likely than the average person to be infected with HIV. ℹ️
• Transgender students are 50% less likely to graduate high school than straight students. ℹ️
• Only 21% of transgenders can successfully pass as the opposite gender. ℹ️
• Risks of hormone therapy include: low or high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke, heart disease, certain cancers, fluid loss, electrolyte imbalance, liver damage, increased hemoglobin, and more. ℹ️
• Risks to sex change include the risk of depressive illness and suicide. ℹ️

Why

Gender and Sex

Some people try to interpret gender as something in the brain, and sex as something in biology, but in reality, the brain is part of biology. It is biological; thus it’s logically flawed to say gender is different from sex. Since gender is the things that we associate with those sexes based on the traits, roles, and preferences that the majority of people of that sex show.

The man who invented gender reassignment tortured a boy by botched circumcision by trying to raise the boy as a girl, the boy eventually commit suicide along with his brother. I do not think this is the type of person we should be learning from. ℹ️

Intersex People

People who are intersex have a birth defect. Their reproductive organs don’t form properly during fetal development. It is almost impossible for hermaphrodites to reproduce. They have a mixture of both but most often, neither of them are properly developed. This is why it is a defect and not a gender. It is quite literally an error during fetal development.

Growing out of Gender Dysphoria

Historically, clinicians more commonly treated transgender kids by discouraging cross-gender identity. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority ━ anywhere from 65% to 94% ━ eventually ceased to identify as transgender.

Transvestic Fetishism

The theory that some people start with a “trans fetish” then develop gender dysphoria could have some logic behind it. Adolescent and adult males with late-onset gender dysphoria frequently engage in transvestic behavior with sexual excitement. Habitual fetishistic transvestism developing into autogynephilia is given as a risk factor for gender dysphoria to develop.

Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) describes a phenomenon in which physically healthy people feel the constant desire for an impairment of their body. The other main disorder in this respect is Gender Dysphoria.

Social Issues

There are many examples of social issues but major ones would be the biological advantages and disadvantages the other person has in Olympics where a transgender person competes. ℹ️

Transitioning

Sex change is physically impossible, it frequently does not provide the long-term wholeness and happiness that people seek. Statistically, significant improvements have not been consistently demonstrated by multiple studies for most outcomes. ℹ️

Bad Linguistic Progress

An example is the use of the word ‘Latinx’ to make it gender-neutral. The term is completely unpronounceable in Spanish, “Latino” is already gender-neutral in Spanish. The term is largely pushed by white Americans against the will of the Latino community in the US. Only 3% of Latinos in the US identify with the term.

Treatment

Unfortunately, many professionals now view health care—including mental health care—primarily as a means of fulfilling patients’ desires, whatever those are. Two effective solutions would be traditional therapeutic intervention, WPATH Standards of Care, and/or other therapeutic intervention.

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