I wonder how many were bi-sexual, bi-curious,maybe had thought about kissing a girl but mostly liked boys. Anyway even if all these ‘non hetrosexuals’ were all lesbians thats still just 41%, so how do you come to the conclusion they are just self hating lesbians? Plus believe me a LOT of trans men are gay men, and a LOT of transwomen are lesbians .. so if they were just internally homophobic i doubt they would then become gay after transitioning.
That being said, I think we need to raise the voices of those who have regretted the decision to transition, we should promote other strategies to deal with gender dysphoria.
Instead of focussing on a tiny minority who chose to transition and regret it as a reason to uphaul hard won transgender rights , we should instead fund mental health system better, not conversion therapy.. just real non judgmental therapy , we can promote pride in diversity of body type, gender expression, sexuality , ethnicity and disability. There is so much body shame in our culture.
I think maybe sometimes transitioning isn’t the right choice for everyone, sometimes its like neutral choice like when there isn’t any others that are obvious, we can’t ignore the fact that people who live gender non conforming lives do get harrassed and do get violence acted upon them.. this is traumatic ..Women getting objectified is traumatic, homophobic violence is traumatic. Then some people just very much belong as the opposite sex.. it radiates from every part of them.. or sometimes its just one possible pathway to learning about themselves and what they are capable of.
the more you tell people they might change their mind when their older, think of how you felt when you were lectured as a teenager .. it doesn’t work! The nature of adolescence is to rebel.. I don’t think saying you’ll grow out of this is helpful. If you just gatekeep treatment people will find their own ways by ordering hormones off the internet or whatever, so I don’t think gatekeeping is the answer to that issue.
maybe we shouldn’t be letting children spend so much time on social media.. thats also an idea.. promote real life experiences..Actually just be there for your kids, really love them.. get more positive gender non conforming role models on TV and in the community.
Don’t call them trenders.. its like saying its because of that dang rock n roll they call music these days! Or self harm is just for attention… it just makes people feel unlistened to and disempowered.
Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology
2 years ago
[…] Perhaps the most important figure in this movement (even if she doesn’t self-identify as an adherent) is Lisa Littman, the former Brown University School of Public Health professor who authored the first peer-reviewed study of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or ROGD. This marked the first time that any academic had produced an authoritative description of the phenomenon by which natal female girls and teenagers suddenly announce a desire to transition to a masculine identity—typically after becoming immersed in online forums or social milieus in which popular or admired trans-identified peer-group members encourage others to pursue transition as a means to address their anxieties. Following publication of her study in 2018, Littman predictably endured months of abuse, and her own university retracted a press release promoting her work. The journal in which she’d published, PLOS ONE, also came under heavy fire, and subsequently published “additional clarifications and context” in an (unsuccessful) bid to appease activists who’d insisted that Littman was a bigot blowing “transphobic dogwhistles.” […]
I wonder how many were bi-sexual, bi-curious,maybe had thought about kissing a girl but mostly liked boys. Anyway even if all these ‘non hetrosexuals’ were all lesbians thats still just 41%, so how do you come to the conclusion they are just self hating lesbians? Plus believe me a LOT of trans men are gay men, and a LOT of transwomen are lesbians .. so if they were just internally homophobic i doubt they would then become gay after transitioning.
That being said, I think we need to raise the voices of those who have regretted the decision to transition, we should promote other strategies to deal with gender dysphoria.
Instead of focussing on a tiny minority who chose to transition and regret it as a reason to uphaul hard
won transgender rights , we should instead fund mental health system better, not conversion therapy.. just real non judgmental therapy , we can promote pride in diversity of body type, gender expression, sexuality , ethnicity and disability. There is so much body shame in our culture.
I think maybe sometimes transitioning isn’t the right choice for everyone, sometimes its like neutral choice like when there isn’t any others that are obvious, we can’t ignore the fact that people who live gender non conforming lives do get harrassed and do get violence acted upon them.. this is traumatic ..Women getting objectified is traumatic, homophobic violence is traumatic. Then some people just very much belong as the opposite sex.. it radiates from every part of them.. or sometimes its just one possible pathway to learning about themselves and what they are capable of.
the more you tell people they might change their mind when their older, think of how you felt when you were lectured as a teenager .. it doesn’t work! The nature of adolescence is to rebel.. I don’t think saying you’ll grow out of this is helpful. If you just gatekeep treatment people will find their own ways by ordering hormones off the internet or whatever, so I don’t think gatekeeping is the answer to that issue.
maybe we shouldn’t be letting children spend so much time on social media.. thats also an idea.. promote real life experiences..Actually just be there for your kids, really love them.. get more positive gender non conforming role models on TV and in the community.
Don’t call them trenders.. its like saying its because of that dang rock n roll they call music these days! Or self harm is just for attention… it just makes people feel unlistened to and disempowered.
[…] Perhaps the most important figure in this movement (even if she doesn’t self-identify as an adherent) is Lisa Littman, the former Brown University School of Public Health professor who authored the first peer-reviewed study of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or ROGD. This marked the first time that any academic had produced an authoritative description of the phenomenon by which natal female girls and teenagers suddenly announce a desire to transition to a masculine identity—typically after becoming immersed in online forums or social milieus in which popular or admired trans-identified peer-group members encourage others to pursue transition as a means to address their anxieties. Following publication of her study in 2018, Littman predictably endured months of abuse, and her own university retracted a press release promoting her work. The journal in which she’d published, PLOS ONE, also came under heavy fire, and subsequently published “additional clarifications and context” in an (unsuccessful) bid to appease activists who’d insisted that Littman was a bigot blowing “transphobic dogwhistles.” […]