Positive thinking, prayer, is always encouraged. No argument. But we still go to doctors and psychiatrists and the like.
Strawman. Take it up with whomever argues that! No one did.
Were the matter in discussion anything other than gender identity disorder or homosexuality, Would your response be the same?
Sometimes individuals don’t have much control over what ails them mentally. My father has Alzheimer’s and it’s had a significant mental effect on him. But there’s not much he can do to make the amyloid plaques in his brain that are the likely cause of Alzheimer’s go away.
You then would have to make the case that gender dysphoria is akin to Alzeimer’s, but that hasn’t been done has it? Which takes us back to the question of cause, assuming that gender dysphoria isn’t purely a psycho-social phenomena completely to be explained by environmental influences. I suppose the benefit of convincing others that there is “something more” to it is that it incites all manner of emotional and political support without the need to look deeper into the actual roots of the condition.HarryStotle:
Sometimes individuals don’t have much control over what ails them mentally. My father has Alzheimer’s and it’s had a significant mental effect on him. But there’s not much he can do to make the amyloid plaques in his brain that are the likely cause of Alzheimer’s go away.
I haven’t seen anyone say such a thing and I have read all of the posts up to this reply. This seems to imply that those who disagree with surgery are wishing death upon those who desire such surgery.
I don’t think that’s the meaning. More that those who reject surgery in severe cases might appear indifferent to the patient’s suffering and circumstances (suicide being a heightened risk) given surgery shows some prospect of helping the individual, but no other treatment does.
Exactly.
I don’t think that’s the case and I note the other poster has a family member who suffers from dysphoria.
No it’s just hyperbole to emphasize the point that doing nothing, or doing something ineffective, may result in more suffering including suicides. You do recognize hyperbole don’t you? Are you from the US? If so your president uses it all the time.
So when you said in reference to the unwillingness to commit to mutilation:
Apologies. No games intended.
Ive read the same posts as you - I’m not having any difficulty understanding OraLabora.
Sometimes does not automatically transpose to always.HarryStotle:
Sometimes individuals don’t have much control over what ails them mentally. My father has Alzheimer’s and it’s had a significant mental effect on him. But there’s not much he can do to make the amyloid plaques in his brain that are the likely cause of Alzheimer’s go away.
You can however look at the current state of scholarly research which while not proving, does strongly suggest structural brain differences and differences in brain androgen take up in utero.
Nah, Google isn’t “my friend.” It is skewed in its results. I have other mechanisms to can use.
Is guaranteed “truth” a necessary prerequisite or does medical science proceed by weighing the evidence?
Again, that all depends upon what is at stake.HarryStotle:
Is guaranteed “truth” a necessary prerequisite or does medical science proceed by weighing the evidence?