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jpmc26
Jul 30, 2018 12:11
So what makes you think that the best thing you can do for people who perceive themselves as being "in the wrong body" is to support that belief? Why are you so sure that this isn't just something going wrong in their thinking?
jpmc26
Jul 30, 2018 11:07
@Phoshi The question says, "In a study where human subjects are given questionnaires, it may be interesting to analyze whether effects are gender-specific and/or more pronounced in one gender than in (the) other(s)." In a study directly targeting gender differences, whether transgender participants respond differently is obviously relevant.
Phoshi
Jul 30, 2018 11:04
This is all completely irrelevant to the actual topic at hand, which is not medical. The medical needs of transgender people are _too complicated_ for a single multiple choice option to adequately describe.

Either the question is about gender and is not in a medical context, in which case a transgender man is a man and should be in the category of men, or it is a medical question and gender is not medically relevant. There are no contexts for this question in which the stuff you're bringing up is relevant to the answer.
peterh
Jul 30, 2018 10:43
@GeoffreyBrent Once I had the option to talk with a practicing psychiatrist. Of course this was the first what I asked from him, why do they accept these things which were considered at least serious psychiatric conditions before. His answer was essentially this: "What is normal, and what is a psychiatric sickness, is not decided by us, but by the society. We are only the experts of handling these conditions". I think it is mainly an opinionated thing, despite that this gender-theory tries to give it an objective, scientific mantle. It is not objective.