"In the first decades of the 21st century along came the trans rights movement. It proclaimed the cause of gender dysphoria was a mismatched gendered soul - a gender identity."
I agree that Mia Ashton's essay is very good, indeed. As a Biological Psychologist, I would say that the driving force behind this ongoing movement is strictly ego, politics, and money. The biology is better known than the trans advocates are admitting. Once you start altering someone hormonally, there is no going back, i.e., these treatments are not "reversible." And, as every parent knows, young people have a difficult time understanding the long-term ramifications of their decisions. Adults can do whatever they want to their bodies. However, I fear that many adults have abandoned their good sense, and any sense of responsibility to children in the service of ideology.
Mia Ashton is so brilliant! That thread should be circulated far and wide. As her review of medical history shows, unethical medical experimentation is nothing new. I have to wonder, why is this part of the medical culture? How can it possibly co-exist with "do no harm?" Is there a disconnect with doctors who are maybe more curious/experimental than emotionally connected to the real potential human cost? Honestly, it seems like the Nazi doctors, just different in degree, though not by terribly much. John Money (I think it's him, one of those early guys) is reported to have been motivated by having kooky theories and just wanting to see what would happen if he did things like raise one of the twin boys as a girl. Is this tendency different in different countries with different governing medical bodies? Why hasn't Canada pulled back from drugging and sterilizing and removing healthy body parts of children when Europe has? Beyond the damages of gender ideology, that pattern in medicine of experimenting with unscientific theories should be eliminated.
I agree that Mia Ashton's essay is very good, indeed. As a Biological Psychologist, I would say that the driving force behind this ongoing movement is strictly ego, politics, and money. The biology is better known than the trans advocates are admitting. Once you start altering someone hormonally, there is no going back, i.e., these treatments are not "reversible." And, as every parent knows, young people have a difficult time understanding the long-term ramifications of their decisions. Adults can do whatever they want to their bodies. However, I fear that many adults have abandoned their good sense, and any sense of responsibility to children in the service of ideology.
Mia Ashton is so brilliant! That thread should be circulated far and wide. As her review of medical history shows, unethical medical experimentation is nothing new. I have to wonder, why is this part of the medical culture? How can it possibly co-exist with "do no harm?" Is there a disconnect with doctors who are maybe more curious/experimental than emotionally connected to the real potential human cost? Honestly, it seems like the Nazi doctors, just different in degree, though not by terribly much. John Money (I think it's him, one of those early guys) is reported to have been motivated by having kooky theories and just wanting to see what would happen if he did things like raise one of the twin boys as a girl. Is this tendency different in different countries with different governing medical bodies? Why hasn't Canada pulled back from drugging and sterilizing and removing healthy body parts of children when Europe has? Beyond the damages of gender ideology, that pattern in medicine of experimenting with unscientific theories should be eliminated.