Re:Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-divers...
by zaksoup on Saturday August 15, 2020 @09:17PM
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> "If we'd treat schizophrenia the way we treat gender dysphoria, we'd all have to acknowledge the voices they hear and pretend we hear them too."
This is easy to dismiss by pointing to evidence based treatment practices. The treatment which is most effective at reducing suicide rates among people experiencing gender dysphoria is gender affirming care [0]. I doubt it is the case that the treatment that is most effective at helping folks experiencing schizophrenia is "acknowledging the voices" (not to mention as sibling commenters have that this is a gross caricature of schizophrenia in the first place).
It's extremely strange to me that we pretend like gender affirming care is "everybody pretending" and not a well studied and evidence based set of treatments that has been shown to be effective.
This is easy to dismiss by pointing to evidence based treatment practices. The treatment which is most effective at reducing suicide rates among people experiencing gender dysphoria is gender affirming care [0]. I doubt it is the case that the treatment that is most effective at helping folks experiencing schizophrenia is "acknowledging the voices" (not to mention as sibling commenters have that this is a gross caricature of schizophrenia in the first place).
It's extremely strange to me that we pretend like gender affirming care is "everybody pretending" and not a well studied and evidence based set of treatments that has been shown to be effective.
[0] https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/01/29/research-brief-g...