Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and gender diversity

Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by bonnicq on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:09PM (#34048364)

You get partial transitions, like men taking estrogen to grow breasts, or getting implants, but then keeping their dicks intact. Or getting castrated but nothing else. Or having 'nullo' surgery where both the cock and balls are sliced off to leave a smooth patch of skin with a little urethral hole to piss out of. Or the 'Salmacian' approach, which is having a castration to free up the ballsack, so as to surgically construct something that looks like labia, to surround a cavity that's meant to mimic a vagina, while again not carving away the cock but keeping it intact.

There's all kinds of weird stuff people choose to do to their bodies, if they can find a willing surgeon to help.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by akomtu on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:36AM (#34049495)

I have finally understood what the many genders thing means. That's a kind of insanity that I didn't expect.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by sverona on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:56PM (#34060976)

Hi. I am a person who wants to have one of the things mentioned in GP done to their body. I have since I was a child. Calling me insane is hurtful. I doubt you know what body dysmorphia is like.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by akomtu on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:45AM (#34063279)

Well, I'd be interested to understand your perspective because in your local coordinate system you're apparently doing the right thing, while to me it looks like madness.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by sverona on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:52PM (#34069511)

It's very simple. My body doesn't match my brain. I've been interested in nulloplasty/glamorplasty for forever. It doesn't make me physically or sexually any less capable. There are surgeons willing to do it now, which there weren't in 2006 when I found out about it. The only thing that stops me from flying out to San Francisco yesterday is the cost.

It looks like madness to you because you have the correct body.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by akomtu on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:13PM (#34073449)

I'd be fine with either body, so long as it's functional, and that's because I don't identify with it. For example, the particilar shape of my hand - five fingers, etc. - doesn't make me feel it's "correct". That shape is common and functional, and that's all. If I had an extra dysfunctional finger sticking out from a wrong place, I'd fix it, but only because it's standing on my way. Having 6 functional fingers wouldnt bother me. I'd add that my attitude to my body is similar to my attitude to a rental car.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by sverona on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:13PM (#34074189)

I think the connection between your mind and body is stronger than you realize.

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Re:Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and... by akomtu on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:29PM (#34075538)

I dont identify with my mind either. It's just a thinking machine, an advanced calculator of a sort.

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