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[–]dreamgermsbisexual nightmare 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Although there has been minimal investigation of psychological interventions for gender dysphoria, there has equally been minimal long-term follow-up of the effectiveness of surgical interventions and to claim it is a cure or the only possible treatment for gender dysphoria should not be stated with this level of certainty.

I think this is one of the most serious problems with all this trans medical intervention. Not only is there minimal critical information about non medical intervention, but little unbiased investigation to whether medical intervention works in the first place, especially with children and teenagers. Especially if you want to demand this right to do this to them. It seems like any kind of meaningful, critical attempts to look into this are actively suppressed and ignored by the scientific and academic communities, which is even more unsettling. You have to have fact-based evidence to justify such radical, elective surgeries and medications for adults, let alone children.

I also think the stories of detransitions are incredibly important and they absolutely deserve just as much coverage as trans people do. The fact that there is an aggressive attempt to silence and discredit detransitions is all the more reason their stories should be shared.

[–]Happy_Blueberry3910[S] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

FYI

Childhood-onset gender dysphoria has been shown to have a high rate of natural resolution, with 61-98% of children reidentifying with their biological sex during puberty.

https://www.segm.org/