XPost: alt.transgendered, alt.checkmate, alt.atheism

That's how horrible World Wide Web can be.

Some idiot has created "Time to refute some pseudoscience" post and
provided link to cherry picked studies (which themselves prove the
poster wrong).

https://old.reddit.com/r/detrans/comments/fz2ycj/time_to_refute_some_pseudoscience/
(Warning! Anti-trans propaganda inside!)

Neurology

Results are mixed but indicate that you do not have the brain of the

sex you transition into prior HRT, only subtle differences

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25720349

Look at that:

To examine whether there are signs of a sex-atypical brain

development in GD, we quantified regional neural gray matter (GM)
volumes in 55 female-to-male and 38 male-to-female adolescents, 44 boys
and 52 girls without GD and applied both univariate and multivariate
analyses. In girls, more GM volume was observed in the left superior
medial frontal cortex, while boys had more volume in the bilateral
superior posterior hemispheres of the cerebellum and the hypothalamus. Regarding the GD groups, at whole-brain level they differed only from individuals sharing their gender identity but not from their natal sex.

Scientific scores!

Another point:

Twin studies

Being transgender is less genetic than owning a dog

http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2013-transsexuality.html

From the link:

Combining data from the present survey with those from past-published

reports, 20% of all male and female monozygotic twin pairs were found concordant for transsexual identity.

Being transgender might be less genetic than owning a dog, but other
biological factors are important as well.

Forced transition studies

About 40% will be able to adapt to live as a female and will identify

as such

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421518/

That's a study of intersex individuals and with which gender they had identitfied. There is nothing about forced transition in this study.
This is a completely different study.

Of 73 patients with disordered sexual differentiation and a

Y-chromosome, 60 were reared female 26 of the 60 (43%) declared female
identity while 32 (53%) declared male identity including 18 (55%) with
cloacal exstrophy, six (55%) with MGD, four (40%) with pAIS, one (50%)
with aphallia, one (100%) with hermaphroditism, and two (67%) with
craniofacial anomalies; two (3%) declined to discuss identity.

Let people be themselves. You are very stupid.

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There is no verifiable evidence that gender dysphoria can be treated in
other ways than transitioning. None whatsoever.
Gender-affirmative trans care *requires* therapy. That is, unless you go
the informed consent route, which you can always refuse to.
Scaring trans people away from transitioning and repressing their
identities *IS* conversion therapy.

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