Prime Time Gender Issues (READ OP BEFORE POSTING)

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121515956#Comment_121515956

This is your own little fantasy, with zero evidence.

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121516062#Comment_121516062

But it's a possibility yes , being it's happened in the UK yes

One eyed Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121515996#Comment_121515996

I thought the comorbidity thing was used as a possible explanation for the increase in numbers. 

It is, by groups who are hoping it resonates with the public to portray autistic and/or gay children as being exploited by other lobby groups (they’re NGOs too btw), or girls who don’t want to be girls, the narrative they’re pushing that those girls think it’s easier to be a man. Just fire off any old shìt and hope something sticks is all, in order to attempt to induce moral panic among the general public.

That’s why I asked the OP did the Prime Time programme cover anything about the previous decades of mandatory sterilisation of people who were seeking legal recognition of their preferred gender, or seeking treatment for what was then gender dysphoria, or did it cover anything about people being able to procure hormone treatments without prescriptions?

It’s really not plausible as an explanation for the rise in people identifying as transgender at all, not least because it ignores the other 70% of children who aren’t autistic, or the fact that either being gay or lesbian has nothing to do with being transgender - they’re completely separate, so the idea that children are just gay or lesbian doesn’t speak at all as to whether or not they may or may not also be transgender - it simply means that of those patients who have been seen, there are that percentage of them who also experience gender dysphoria, and an even smaller percentage again who require further support, whether that be in the form of counselling, medication or surgery.

It also says nothing about the thousands of people on waiting lists who have been referred by their GPs, and it says nothing about the thousands of parents who have to tolerate the fact that they could be forced to wait years on the public healthcare system, or go private if they have the means to afford to do so. Many parents simply can’t afford it, many more would prefer to pretend it’s a phase and their children will grow out of it.

The fact that it’s easier to be out these days isn’t contradicting the fact that homophobia and transphobia are also on the rise, as indicated by the fact that a person can’t even do something as simple as doing their grocery shopping these days without some scumbag following them round with a phone and posting about them on social media for likes -

https://www.thepinknews.com/2013/11/20/tesco-launches-inquiry-into-employees-posting-online-photos-and-videos-abusing-trans-customers/

Says more about that particular individual than anything it says about people who are transgender.

Beasty

We have had more than enough trans-bashing threads

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