Well said. There are so may layers to this issue and I always learn more. Thanks!
One of those layers is what I found out about medical school in the States. Where I come from a doctor is a healer. Of course this is not the case for doctors that were "trained" in American medicine schools. I didn't understand this my first years living here why the doctors were surprised when I asked them what was the root cause, being the reasoning that if you find the root of the problem you can fix the problem, simply put it, you are healed! Many decades after I found this book written by a couple who are doctors, amazingly they are what is called "root cause doctors", go figure, of course there is not a degree with that "specialty", they had to learned it by experience, by people go to them because actually they healed people almost without a life of medication and only when is need it. The most of the times the deceases are fixed with a change of life style, that simple. BUT doctors here are "trained" and that is why the word "trained" is used, opposite to studying illness and causes and the whole body as a whole. Why? because the medical schools are a creation of big millionaires that sponsored schools where the main purpose was prescribed drugs that they also manufactured. A perfect business! So we say in USA that here they keep you alive but they don't have interest in the root cause because there's not money in healing. It is the 80/20 approach, you are keep 80% healthy and they manage you with medication. Sometimes it takes a lot of tests and studies to find the problem so is not economical viable but with a certain drug you can live and rally is a patch. I have friends that considered themselves healthiest because they are ONLY in four drugs in their 60s. No, be healthy means not drugs of any kind except vitamins and likewise. What this has to do with the issue at hand? Simple, these doctors are not to be trusted in what they think and say because they don't have the interest to heal anybody, for them a transgender is a life of giving them hormones and surgeries that also cost a lot of money. It is logical for them to look for "fixers", it is like they had being trained. After the pandemic some doctors had realized about this and they are trying to be independent of corporate medicine, sadly the system doesn't allowed a lot of margin and many things should changed first starting with the health insurances.
The Shrodinger's cat of gender ideology: if we went back and lived through those times again (open the box), would everybody non-gender-conforming die?
If we all walked around as naked as primates, there would be no mismatch of biological sex and gender identity. You would simply be that male chimp over there or that female chimp breastfeeding her baby.
Great summary of the arguments for and against sex trait modification treatments. I can’t imagine a gender clinician or TRA being able or willing to do the same.
Thank you for reposting this. As someone who doesn’t affirm or believe, it seems so rational and obvious that it’s hard to imagine anyone reading this and not nodding along. But the disturbing reality is that not only would affirming believers think this is cruel blasphemy, I’m betting good money that the vast majority would refuse to read it. We are where we are because reason and evidence — the foundations of both this article and rational thought and behavior — have lost their value. And what we’re left with is a nightmare.
Well said. There are so may layers to this issue and I always learn more. Thanks!
One of those layers is what I found out about medical school in the States. Where I come from a doctor is a healer. Of course this is not the case for doctors that were "trained" in American medicine schools. I didn't understand this my first years living here why the doctors were surprised when I asked them what was the root cause, being the reasoning that if you find the root of the problem you can fix the problem, simply put it, you are healed! Many decades after I found this book written by a couple who are doctors, amazingly they are what is called "root cause doctors", go figure, of course there is not a degree with that "specialty", they had to learned it by experience, by people go to them because actually they healed people almost without a life of medication and only when is need it. The most of the times the deceases are fixed with a change of life style, that simple. BUT doctors here are "trained" and that is why the word "trained" is used, opposite to studying illness and causes and the whole body as a whole. Why? because the medical schools are a creation of big millionaires that sponsored schools where the main purpose was prescribed drugs that they also manufactured. A perfect business! So we say in USA that here they keep you alive but they don't have interest in the root cause because there's not money in healing. It is the 80/20 approach, you are keep 80% healthy and they manage you with medication. Sometimes it takes a lot of tests and studies to find the problem so is not economical viable but with a certain drug you can live and rally is a patch. I have friends that considered themselves healthiest because they are ONLY in four drugs in their 60s. No, be healthy means not drugs of any kind except vitamins and likewise. What this has to do with the issue at hand? Simple, these doctors are not to be trusted in what they think and say because they don't have the interest to heal anybody, for them a transgender is a life of giving them hormones and surgeries that also cost a lot of money. It is logical for them to look for "fixers", it is like they had being trained. After the pandemic some doctors had realized about this and they are trying to be independent of corporate medicine, sadly the system doesn't allowed a lot of margin and many things should changed first starting with the health insurances.
"a mass extinction of the historic dysphorics"
The Shrodinger's cat of gender ideology: if we went back and lived through those times again (open the box), would everybody non-gender-conforming die?
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I love your clear and concise writing on this topic. Well-done!
If we all walked around as naked as primates, there would be no mismatch of biological sex and gender identity. You would simply be that male chimp over there or that female chimp breastfeeding her baby.
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.
The very word “transition” is contemptible. As if such a thing is any way possible. Our society which allows sex rejection procedures is Satanic.
Great summary of the arguments for and against sex trait modification treatments. I can’t imagine a gender clinician or TRA being able or willing to do the same.
Thank you for reposting this. As someone who doesn’t affirm or believe, it seems so rational and obvious that it’s hard to imagine anyone reading this and not nodding along. But the disturbing reality is that not only would affirming believers think this is cruel blasphemy, I’m betting good money that the vast majority would refuse to read it. We are where we are because reason and evidence — the foundations of both this article and rational thought and behavior — have lost their value. And what we’re left with is a nightmare.
Very well written!