Target is getting boytcott for allowing transgenders in normal bathrooms.

[otto-san]

yeah, you're right, it is a result of something called gender dysphoria. and we don't really know how to treat it like depression or schizophrenia (also someone p close to me has schizo-affective disorder and it's definitely not something that makes them act out, it's just really stressful and awful to live with mostly). maybe some day we'll actually have a treatment to normalize their feelings, but for the moment all we can do to treat the underlying problem is to support their preferred gender and go through psychotherapy. this can help to solve the anxiety associated with their dysphoria, but obv it's not a perfect solution, and it requires some pretty major lifestyle changes.

it's not really so much a delusion or a misconception of themselves as it is a fundamental malfunction, something that can't be dug up and changed through cognitive therapy. their brains have something actually chemically different about them, and it makes sense that it would be hard to relate to.

further reading?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transloveualism

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[Donnies Catch]

yeah, you're right, it is a result of something called gender dysphoria. and we don't really know how to treat it like depression or schizophrenia (also someone p close to me has schizo-affective disorder and it's definitely not something that makes them act out, it's just really stressful and awful to live with mostly). maybe some day we'll actually have a treatment to normalize their feelings, but for the moment all we can do to treat the underlying problem is to support their preferred gender and go through psychotherapy. this can help to solve the anxiety associated with their dysphoria, but obv it's not a perfect solution, and it requires some pretty major lifestyle changes.

it's not really so much a delusion or a misconception of themselves as it is a fundamental malfunction, something that can't be dug up and changed through cognitive therapy. their brains have something actually chemically different about them, and it makes sense that it would be hard to relate to.

i can back this up, this is probably one of the best explanations ive read from someone that doesn't actually feel the way as an actual transgender does.

[c]

Except that there is a number of stark differences between Schizophrenia and Gender Dysphoria, and one is their best available treatments. The best available treatment for gender dysphoria is to change the person's body to reflect the gender that their mind feels is correct, and at that point most of the discomfort of the disorder goes away. There isn't some drug that makes you feel comfortable with your gender.

a study in 1996 concluded that pimozide (commonly used to treat tourettes) can treat gender dysphoria.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8839957

I can't seem to find the full text of the study because you need to have a subscription to this website or something.

[Red Spy]

a study in 1996 concluded that pimozide (commonly used to treat tourettes) can treat gender dysphoria.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8839957

I can't seem to find the full text of the study because you need to have a subscription to this website or something.

But that's out of date!11!!1

[Donnies Catch]

a study in 1996 concluded that pimozide (commonly used to treat tourettes) can treat gender dysphoria.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8839957

I can't seem to find the full text of the study because you need to have a subscription to this website or something.

i dont want to take pills for the rest of my life, i actually already have to and i dont want to double that

[Red Spy]

i dont want to take pills for the rest of my life, i actually already have to and i dont want to double that

It's not that big of a burden to take 2 more pills a day

[Donnies Catch]

It's not that big of a burden to take 2 more pills a day

you dont know how that stuff makes you feel, man. yea it might solve the gender dysphoria, or mood swings or w/e, but that's seriously not all it does. iit doesnt just perfectly remove your sad and that's it, it isnt at all a perfect world like that.
i would never

[The Resonte!]

Biology isn't in their favor

biology means diddily richard in our trendy day and ages

a study in 1996 concluded that pimozide (commonly used to treat tourettes) can treat gender dysphoria.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8839957

I can't seem to find the full text of the study because you need to have a subscription to this website or something.

i wonder if that would be an effective treatment
it would need an obnoxious amount of research

it's also used to treat schizophrenia
what's with all the gender dysphoria / schizophrenia connections lately

It's not that big of a burden to take 2 more pills a day

it actually is
obtaining them and side effects and whatever

[Red Spy]

biology means diddily richard in our trendy day and ages

Is that because it's 2016?

[Tezuni 2.0]

transgender should be treated as a mental illness and not encouraged.
today's politically correct culture would call that discrimination and hate speech though.  

we, as a society, should not be bending over backwards to meet the needs of the few at the expense of the needs of the many.
for example i always see rows of vacant handi-cap parking spots.  so what if they have to wheel an extra fifty feet to the door?  that's just life.

but no, we must inconvenience everyone to help them on the rare occasion it's needed.
the end result is a net negative on society.

[c]

i dont want to take pills for the rest of my life, i actually already have to and i dont want to double that

neither does anyone with schizophrenia, depression or anyone who has had an organ transplant. but waah waah i dont wanna take my pills, right?

imagine this - the kid who at 12 began a "transition". imagine if he had depression instead of gender dysphoria, telling his mother and father that he wanted to kill himself. the equivalent of whats being done now is congratulating the kid on his suicidal thoughts and then giving him a gun.

what's with all the gender dysphoria / schizophrenia connections lately

mental illnesses are similar.

[Red Spy]

transgender should be treated as a mental illness and not encouraged.
today's politically correct culture would call that discrimination and hate speech though.  

we, as a society, should not be bending over backwards to meet the needs of the few at the expense of the needs of the many.
for example i always see rows of vacant handi-cap parking spots.  so what if they have to wheel an extra fifty feet to the door?  that's just life.

but no, we must inconvenience everyone to help them on the rare occasion it's needed.
the end result is a net negative on society.

Where have you been for the last 10 pages lmao

[otto-san]

a study in 1996 concluded that pimozide (commonly used to treat tourettes) can treat gender dysphoria.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8839957

I can't seem to find the full text of the study because you need to have a subscription to this website or something.

p interesting. with only one patient it's really hard to tell if that's a solid treatment for dysphoria (the thing you linked actually seems to conclude that it's a thing to try for "doubtful" dysphoria), tho there probably is a chemical solution out there and it'd probably be cool to find it

i dont want to take pills for the rest of my life, i actually already have to and i dont want to double that

yeah, that's what sucks about chemical solutions, but i guess it's better than nothing. i imagine coming off the medication would be hell though

imagine this - the kid who at 12 began a "transition". imagine if he had depression instead of gender dysphoria, telling his mother and father that he wanted to kill himself. the equivalent of whats being done now is congratulating the kid on his suicidal thoughts and then giving him a gun.

the difference i think there is that Self Delete definitively makes your life worse, and treatment for gender dysphoria definitively makes your life better. from a purely medical point of view, you just do what treats the symptoms.

[Donnies Catch]

neither does anyone with schizophrenia, depression or anyone who has had an organ transplant. but waah waah i dont wanna take my pills, right?

how about i keep my emotions in line and dont suffer dangerous side effects and just continue my transition instead, huh? you cant stop me lmao, its so much better for me over-all

that's just life.

lol

[Akio-]

you cant stop me lmao

surprisingly 40% of transgender individuals stop themselves.