Off-Topic "Scientific" Studies regarding Transpeople

[The Morning Visitor]

Anecdotally demented people often become aggressively bi. Tiny little matriarchs grabbing through your scrubs at your vulva Metal Gear-style and propositioning you while you're trying to put a humidifier on their oxygen, but who knows, maybe they were lesbians all their repressed life and the dementia freed them. No matter what, it's gonna be a weird few decades.

Maybe the dementia lowered inhibitions and allowed an already existent but repressed gayer side to their personality to surface? I'm spitballin' here, it just seems most plausible to me.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Medical records indicated Susan had difficulty recalling her autobiographical information for five years prior to the current evaluation. For example, she possibly confabulated many stories to fit with her current gender (i.e., stories about her “husband,” her delivery of her children)

This one is interesting too; thank you.

I wonder how much was actual confabulation--"I seem to be a woman; I must have borne those children"--vs. knowing attempts that he had to "pass," and therefore should tell these strangers the female version of his life. Confabulation would lead to the opposite conclusion of the Canadian transbian case; this guy "felt female," whatever that means, and didn't start making his #1 goal the mystery of solving who took his dick.

85 and demented in 2019; I wonder if his estranged kids wrote an obit when he died.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Couldn't find a full copy of that study but ran across this one.

Forgotten Wishes: End-of-Life Documents for Trans People with Dementia at the Margins of Legal Change

Literature on the topic of trans older adults has documented a few anecdotal cases in which some trans people living with dementia forgot they transitioned and reidentified with their sex assigned at birth (“detransition”). Trans communities and their allies have encouraged trans people to engage in end-of-life planning, including the preparation of legal documents that state their wishes regarding gender identity and expression in the event of “incapacity” caused by dementia. While useful, we contend that end-of-life planning is often implicitly based on cisnormative and cognonormative (normative system based on cognitive abilities) assumptions. Such planning is founded on a stable notion of gender identity throughout the life course (“post-transition”) and assumes that the pre-dementia self is better equipped to make decisions than the “demented” self. We conclude by encouraging, based on an intersectional, trans-affirmative, crip-positive, and age-positive approach, respect for the agency of trans people with dementia.

 

[FailurePersonifiedV2]

They don't reproduce anyways, they recruit.

Consistent between Transvestites, Trannies and Gays. (Furries too while we are at it)

I'm willing to accept that gay people exist even in the absence of child sexual abuse, but gender dysphoria is always groomed into someone by others.

This smells to me like you’re just used to gays more.
Gender dysphoria is pretty rare from what we’ve seen, even from the self-admissions of the trans community (see all the AGP denial, it’s clear they cope). Acceptance of some lifestyle shouldn’t cause rapid increases of this scale unless it is a choice. It’s most likely fetishistic for most, or at least GID as a symptom of increased exposure to porn vs. earlier generations who wouldn’t have dealt with it.

Example being that once racial equality had been achieved through the Civil Rights movement; you didn’t suddenly see a bunch of blacks showing up out of thin air. They can’t “choose” their color, but you can choose your gender identity as has been clearly shown, even if you struggle with what you are, trust me, you can overcome, detrans among others show that it’s possible to great effect. Some of the detrans community were diagnosed with GID at a young age, which lends some credibility to their experience.

Every single person that has been convinced that "you can be born in the wrong body" was groomed into accepting that belief as truth.

I would ask that you at least consider that while you’re right in that you can’t be born into the wrong body.
Why not also consider the rise in the number of homosexuals from the early 2000’s to now and ask yourself is “sexuality a choice?”, and if so.. you can be groomed to make that choice, no?

If it is a choice that would make sense, the cope of sexual abuse being the cause for homosexuality makes little sense in the context of those who believe they are “born that way”. Trauma can change you sure, but not that much unless you lean into it.
I have seen quite a few gays come about through realizing their sexuality after living with a gay roommate for a year, or having gay friends while going to college, but they were fuckin and chasing members of the opposite sex for years…
Weird isn’t it? Almost like it’s a learned behavior.

Actually have been thinking about sitting down for a few weeks and gather all my notes on this shit. I’ve wanted to write about this very thing for a long time, but I’m not a good writer. The lies people tell about both is shocking and very damaging, its wicked.

 

[Surfin Terf]

I think what made me realize the whole "born in the wrong body" thing was a lie is the fact that most TIMs dont get the chop off. They justify it by claiming gender having nothing to do with sex. (Even though that whole thing is a bait and switch.) It really started to make me question the whole trans brains studies, cause if you noticed none of the articles ever explains how a TIMs brain is similar to a "cis" woman's. If it isn't biological sex then what is it then? This goes back into the question of "What does it mean to be a "man" and a "woman" if its not biology"? Sex stereotypes?

The only study that I've seen actually try to quantitatively examine this was a brain scan study; I don't remember it perfectly but I'll try to sum it up to the best of my abilities. They created a test which was normalized so that males would (on average) score 1.00 and females would (on average) score 0.00. Then they gave the test to two groups of men, one trans-identified and the other not. The non-trans group scored about 1, as was expected, and the trans group scored... ~0.75. Definitely more "female" than the non-trans group, but not out-of-bounds for a male brain.

Except, there was a major problem with the methodology. The non-trans group was all heterosexual men, while the trans group was 50-50 and we already know that there are substantive differences in the gay vs straight brain. In my opinion, these results justify further exploration, but they don't justify any special treatment for transsexuals. In fact, even if we accept the naïve interpretation that transsexual males are actually 75% male/25% female they are still mostly male and this does not justify reclassifying them as female.

A 76-year-old female transgender person was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia in 2014 with MOCA (MOntreal Cognitive Assessment) score of 17/30. She was treated with donepezil 10mg OD and prescribed mirtazapine 15mg ON to treat insomnia and low mood.

She underwent male to female gender reassignment surgery, including bilateral breast surgery completed in 1960s, and hormonal treatment with estradiol. She considered her sexual orientation to be towards the same sex, and she was in a long-term relationship with a female partner. Her medical history included migraine and she was on propranolol 80mg OD. There was no other significant psychiatric history. She resided in her own flat and her partner lived in a separate flat in the same block. The couple had two of three surviving adopted daughters, both in their forties. The patient's primary carer was her partner and there was no formal care input.

Susan (information changed), was an 85-year-old Caucasian, right-handed transgender female with 12 years of education and a medical history significant for cardiovascular risk factors and completing gender affirmation surgery in her 70’s.

"Transgender female". Don't they always say that sex ≠ gender? I hate that term even more than "trans woman."

Maybe the dementia lowered inhibitions and allowed an already existent but repressed gayer side to their personality to surface? I'm spitballin' here, it just seems most plausible to me.

I've always found the idea that sexual orientation is a purely engrained part of our personalities to be pretty suspect. Allowing myself to question gender ideology also gave me the freedom to admit this to myself.

We know perfectly well that fetishes can be developed through life experiences. No one thinks that in a pre-industrial society there are teenagers fantasizing about women in latex catsuits or vac-beds. We know perfectly well that animals sexually imprint, this has been a serious issue for some animal breeders. We even know that chimpanzees do this, there was a famous case of a chimpanzee named Lucy being raised in a human family. She was scared of male chimps and would masturbate to Playgirl.

We know perfectly well that a human's sexual wires can get crossed by life experiences to the point that they're attracted to horses, but we're supposed to draw the line on them getting crossed to the point that they're attracted to the same sex? Actually, realistically most people are probably more influenced by life experiences to be attracted to the opposite sex. I do believe that there are probably some biological differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals, but I also think that a lot of people really could have gone either way.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

We even know that chimpanzees do this, there was a famous case of a chimpanzee named Lucy being raised in a human family. She was scared of male chimps and would masturbate to Playgirl.

I had never heard this story before. Thanks. From the article:

In 1964, a psychotherapist and his wife adopted a two-day-old chimpanzee. They named her Lucy. For twelve years, Dr. Maurice and Jane Temerlin would raise Lucy as if she were their human daughter. The chimp ate at the family dinner table, using silverware. She dressed herself. She served her parents tea. She even learned 140 signs in American Sign Language.
When Lucy reached adolescence, she developed a taste for straight gin and Playgirl—which she flipped through while masturbating with a vacuum cleaner. She began to act out, sometimes violently. Growing concerned, the Temerlins decided to introduce Lucy to another chimp for the first time, with the apparent intention of mating them. Lucy was uninterested. By all measurable counts, Lucy believed she was human.

 

[The Morning Visitor]

This smells to me like you’re just used to gays more.

I am. I'm Californian. I still adhere to "if they're not bothering anybody, let them be", only the TQIAs started policing a lot of terms and body language (microaggressions). Once they said "dude" was gendered, back in like 2015 or 2016, that was my absolute peak.

And the gays aren't blameless in all of this, I very much think the bakery shouldn't be forced to bake the cake. But they aren't the ones nitpicking third person pronouns, words that are used when they shouldn't even be in the room.

I would ask that you at least consider that while you’re right in that you can’t be born into the wrong body.
Why not also consider the rise in the number of homosexuals from the early 2000’s to now and ask yourself is “sexuality a choice?”, and if so.. you can be groomed to make that choice, no?

There are plenty of people that are groomed into homosexuality. There's plenty of sexual assault victims that grow up afraid of men and only trust women, and it's a damn shame that someone hurt them that way. There's also plenty of bulldykes that look and act like Hank fuckin' Hill and you know that something's off with her hormones, like there's a natural biological factor that drives her to chase skirt and tune up Harleys. My point is that there are cases of homosexuality in the animal kingdom and there are obvious involuntary biological factors at play for some of the gay community. My point is, for the trans community, there are no biological factors, only psychological and social factors. Every single trans person has been groomed into it and most of them would have been in a psych ward pre-1980. We need to isolate them, we need to study them, and we need to (eventually) pity them.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

We know perfectly well that a human's sexual wires can get crossed by life experiences to the point that they're attracted to horses, but we're supposed to draw the line on them getting crossed to the point that they're attracted to the same sex? Actually, realistically most people are probably more influenced by life experiences to be attracted to the opposite sex. I do believe that there are probably some biological differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals, but I also think that a lot of people really could have gone either way.

Once that lie, that homosexuality is inborn, is debunked, it's easy for them to retort, "So what if homosexuality is environmental rather than inborn? Just let people make their own decisions!"

It's important to note the reason why the gay rights movement pushed the "born that way" meme so hard.

Homosexuality being the product of environment or upbringing rather than it being genetic or prenatal, that by itself is a pretty compelling argument on why society is perfectly justified in discouraging homosexual lifestyles, and why "civil rights" shouldn't factor into any sort of discussion or debate about the subject at all.


If homosexuality were practiced by a very tiny minority of mentally ill adults, that would be one thing, but the rapidly increasing percentage of people identifying as LGBTQ (especially because it's near-exclusively in the younger generations) should worry you.

It simply doesn't matter how society treats homosexuality: It is, and always will be, a self-defeating lifestyle that isn't conducive to good physical or mental health on an individual level, and isn't conducive to propagating the species, much less society.

Therefore if homosexuality is environmental, we have a vested interest in figuring out how to prevent children or teenagers from developing homosexual inclinations. And we also have a vested interest in ensuring that teenagers develop a strong sense of self so they are less susceptible to grooming. The LGBTQP community simply cannot abide by that, it's a Slaanish/Nurgle cult that wants to drag as many people down as possible.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Forgotten Wishes: End-of-Life Documents for Trans People with Dementia at the Margins of Legal Change

This is an interesting paper, but it waits on recommendations to the end. Good recommendations: reality orientation is awful. You don't tell Doris that her parents are dead every 30 minutes, just try to break the cycle and get her to work on something while she waits for them.

If Aiden wants to put on a dress over her rotdog, you either have to let her or get really good at giving an "acktually that's internalized transphobia" speech, over and over and over. (Who knows, if these pooners get old, maybe they'll find social justice lectures comforting.) Troons with dementia aren't going to be waking up each day as a different sex; that's genderfluid teenagers on Tumblr. They're going to be mostly one gender, with bursts through the day as lucidity waxes and wanes; nobody's going to hear the clock strike one, say "I'm a girl now" and reach for their pearls.

Damn, imagine an elderly transwoman with dementia, and one of the ways staff knows that he needs to be tested for a UTI is he starts insisting on being male.


I don't care how "crip-positive" you are, dementia isn't the same as being paraplegic or even mentally ill. "Provide demented people markers and crayons so they can give input" is the social work version of "let them eat cake." Someone who's lost so much of themself is not going to be able to understand that there's a larger issue. They have a unique perspective, but it's going to need a specialized interviewer.

Demented people legally can't make most of their own decisions, and that's not like being black in a society that thinks you're a slave. Memory care has locked doors because nobody's advance directive explicitly states that they want to be allowed to wander into the night and die of exposure.

but the rapidly increasing percentage of people identifying as LGBTQ (especially because it's near-exclusively in the younger generations) should worry you.

Whenever I see this, I wonder how many of these young people are in the "TQ+" side of the abbreviation. Numbers are going to be hard to get, especially since it's self reporting, but it really doesn't seem like there are more homosexuals.

We always had emos and scene kids and social media bisexuals and LUGs and middle-aged transvestites; are there really more homos, or is the "trans and queer" drag net catching trendies and coomers and adding them to a total that means nothing? How many people are self-reporting as "queer" because it's a synonym for "cool" in their age group?

You can't have a survey where you demand timestamped webcam evidence of a dude sucking a dick before you tally him BG or Q. I believe these numbers are hugely inflated--good news for people worried about doomsday, bad for TQ+ who expect support from the masses, not top-down from institutions.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

You can't have a survey where you demand timestamped webcam evidence of a dude sucking a dick before you tally him BG or Q. I believe these numbers are hugely inflated--good news for people worried about doomsday, bad for TQ+ who expect support from the masses, not top-down from institutions.

Even if what you are saying is correct, and homosexual orientation or lifestyle doesn't involve social contagion, it's bad news both for people worried about doomsday and for the TQ who expect support from the masses rather than the establishment.

Sexual experimentation done by people who would never, ever identify as bisexual or gay had the thought never entered their mind cannot be good for their mental health. Neither can gender LARPing. Even if we don't get a fertility or population crisis (worse than what we've already got) as a result of the LGBTQ movement, we'll get a mental health crisis, and thus huge masses of people unfit to be parents for one thing.

As cringe as emo and scene were, not even that subculture generated nearly as much mental sickness as LGBTQP has.

Even before all of this queer madness during the 2010s, I suspect that there were many, MANY individuals who would never have identified as gay or bi had the idea never been planted in their minds.

 

[Jacques1194]

Even if what you are saying is correct, and homosexual orientation or lifestyle doesn't involve social contagion, it's bad news both for people worried about doomsday and for the TQ who expect support from the masses rather than the establishment.

Sexual experimentation done by people who would never, ever identify as bisexual or gay had the thought never entered their mind cannot be good for their mental health. Neither can gender LARPing. Even if we don't get a fertility or population crisis (worse than what we've already got) as a result of the LGBTQ movement, we'll get a mental health crisis, and thus huge masses of people unfit to be parents for one thing.

As cringe as emo and scene were, not even that subculture generated nearly as much mental sickness as LGBTQP has.

Even before all of this queer madness during the 2010s, I suspect that there were many, MANY individuals who would never have identified as gay or bi had the idea never been planted in their minds.

I dont know what causes homosexuality but tbh the fact that there's a lot of teenagers nowadays who are desperate to be some flavor of queer does make me question what they teach at schools these days. If it was just the "Some people have two dads, or two moms." narrative then none of these teens nowadays would be this obsessed with wanting to be queer. If homosexuality was something people are born with why do people promote the lifestyle as if it makes you the coolest person in the world? You can disagree but I feel the problem is the whole putting minorities on a pedestal when it comes to the left. How many of these teens would still identify as LGBTQ if there was no "pride" month? I feel that this fuels narcissism in people's heads which causes them huge mental health problems because they've been convinced nothing is ever their fault, and its just easy to blame society if you have mental health problems.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

If homosexuality was something people are born with why do people promote the lifestyle as if it makes you the coolest person in the world? You can disagree but I feel the problem is the whole putting minorities on a pedestal when it comes to the left. How many of these teens would still identify as LGBTQ if there was no "pride" month? I feel that this fuels narcissism in people's heads which causes them huge mental health problems because they've been convinced nothing is ever their fault, and its just easy to blame society if you have mental health problems.

The problem is (and as at least a few studies attest to), homosexuality is disproportionately comorbid with dark triad personality traits.

No actual marginalized minority has that problem. Judging by how their collective mental health still hasn't gotten better even after being given EVERYTHING they could have ever asked for, the only reasonable assumption is that the homosexuality is part of the problem.

Even as early as the 2000s there was some undercurrent of liberals trying to make faggotry look cool. Even as early as the 90s there was a fucking guidebook written on how to make faggotry look "cool" and how to cram it down everyone else's throats to the point they cannot escape it.

Hell, just look before the 90s, they were even worse, as they were openly for any and all sexual perversions imaginable, it was only during the 90s they started pretending otherwise. You're giving these people way too much credit.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

How does this tell us anything about the efficacy of 'gender-affirmation surgery' if we're comparing trannies to normal people and not pre-op trannies? All I'm able to get from this is that trannies rope more than normal people, unless the claim is that having an operation reduces suicide rates to baseline level.

If we're comparing Cohort A with Cohort C, why is tubal litigation or vasectonomy considered a decent enough proxy for transness to use? There are way more surgically sterilized people than there are trans.

I can tell you know absolutely nothing about medical experimental design.

 

[Positron]

Elon Musk caught wind of the suicide study; Caleb Lawrence reacts with the same dumb excuses.

 

[Bloo]

Elon Musk caught wind of the suicide study; Caleb Lawrence reacts with the same dumb excuses.
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How would discrimination make them kill themselves more AFTER surgery? I don’t understand the reasoning. If what they’re saying is true and it’s “life saving” surely the suicide rates would go down after surgery. It makes no fucking sense.

 

[Chandelier]

Found this paper on lactation care for troons. Not very long, but amusing nonetheless. Paper here.

In recent years, we have seen growing awareness by the media, professional health organizations, and academics when it comes to the reproductive and lactation health needs of transgender and non-binary (TGNB) people. Thomas Beatie made headlines in 2007 as the world’s “first” pregnant man (Roberts, 2016). The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2011) published a position statement encouraging its members to educate themselves about transgender health.

One of these members is famously Mama Doctor Jones AKA Birthing Person Jones AKA Don't Call me Danielle, who refuses to use any female-centric language in her videos.

In 2016, researchers published the first qualitative study about the experiences of transmasculine people with lactation (MacDonald et. al., 2016). The first peer reviewed case study of a transgender woman who successfully breastfed her infant was published in 2018 (Reisman & Goldstein, 201.

This case study has been discussed before, and all it was was watery pus that had to be supplemented with formula. T levels were also high despite all that estrogen. 'Transmasculine' people are just pooners who didn't get the titty chop yet.

Given these recent firsts, one could be forgiven for assuming that TGNB lactation is an exotic frontier. Yet, approaching our health needs from this perspective is inherently “othering” and is also inaccurate. Cultures from around the world and across time have been documented to include people with diverse gender identities, and who participate in varied activities to do with work, spirituality, and family life (Blackwood, 1984; Graham, 2012). For instance, in precolonial times, at least 33 Native American tribes recognized cross-gender roles that confounded western binary notions of gender and sex (Blackwood, 1984).

They also had words for those people. Most of these were effeminate gay men who were not allowed to be openly gay, so they put them in a role that was considered 'appropriate' for them. Natives knew full well what sex was.

Bugis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, conceptualize a range of gender identities as they relate to sex, spirituality, behavior, sense of self, and more (Graham, 2012). It is likely that the history of TGNB lactation is as ancient as the human species itself, yet academic research in this field is only beginning to emerge.

It's ancient, but it's never before been recorded by anyone; only recently has there been any research or attempts to get troons to lactate. Curious.

On misgendering and discrimination:

Recent research highlights the intensity of discrimination experienced by TGNB people. In the United States, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (N = 6450) found 19% of respondents had been refused medical care due to being TGNB, 50% needed to educate their providers about transgender health care, and 28% had postponed medical care due to fear of discrimination (Grant, Mottet & Tanis, 2011). Similarly, Bauer, Scheim, Deutsch, and Massarella (2014) found that 21% of TGNB people (N = 433) avoided using emergency department services due to fear of discrimination. Misgendering is particularly stressful for many TGNB people (McLemore, 2013; 201. Misgendering means using a different gendered pronoun, name, or descriptor from that which the patient uses. Examples include calling a patient “Mother” when they go by “Dad” or using the term “breast” when the patient refers to their “chest”. Misgendering negatively affects mental health, self-esteem, and social identity (McLemore, 2013; 201.

AKA they're scared of being accurately sexed. Like that transman they treated as a man until 'he' gave birth to a stillborn baby.

One aspect unique to transgender women may be the use of an androgen-blocking medication (e.g., spironolactone). Spironolactone is found to be excreted in milk at 0.02% of the maternal daily dose and is believed to be clinically insignificant for the infant (Reisman & Goldstein, 201. Reported results regarding milk volume are reasonably successful, with some moderate supplementation required (Reisman & Goldstein, 2018, p. 25).

'Moderate' aka most of the milk had to be given through formula because the troon didn't produce enough. Shocker.

Transgender men sometimes choose to become pregnant and give birth, and they may produce milk and feed their babies from their bodies (Ellis, Wojnar & Pettinato, 2014; MacDonald et al., 2016; Hoffkling, Obedin-Maliver & Sevelius, 2017). A variety of terms are used in the transmasculine community, including breastfeeding, chestfeeding, nursing, and feeding. Some transgender men become parents with prior male chest-contouring surgery and/or having taken testosterone, and others give birth having had no transition-related medical interventions at the time of pregnancy (Ellis et al., 2014; MacDonald et al., 2016; Hoffkling et al., 2017). They may or may not disclose their gender identity to HCPs (MacDonald et al., 2016).

They want to be men so badly until threat of suicide, and yet do the most female thing imaginable. Under no circumstances can you call them mothers, bigots.

For transmasculine individuals that have had prior chest surgery and choose to chestfeed their infants, establishing an adequate latch and milk supply are the primary challenges. Different surgical techniques and individual patient characteristics result in varying degrees of chest tissue regrowth during pregnancy. When the chest is flatter and the skin more taut, latching may be difficult, in which case the patient could be encouraged to try molding the tissue with their hand, or using a nipple shield if helpful.

I can't imagine how you can breastfeed without breasts, but whatever.

Use of a supplemental nursing aid and galactagogues can be discussed in the case of inadequate milk supply (MacDonald et al., 2016). While breastfeeding might be a gender-affirming activity for transgender women, for transgender men nursing an infant may bring up feelings of gender dysphoria.

Ah, there it is. It's validating for males, horrifying for females, because it reminds them of what they are. Makes you wonder why the pooner even bothered to get pregnant if the dysphoria was so bad.

Gender dysphoria is generally defined as a sense of distress caused by incongruity between a person’s felt gender and their physicality, or the way others view their gender (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, 302.85 F64.0 F64.1). However, experiences of gender dysphoria as well as its causes can be extremely varied. Some transmasculine patients reported that chestfeeding was a source of intense gender dysphoria, while others noted that nursing their infant was the only time they did not experience chest-related gender dysphoria (MacDonald et al., 2016).

Breastfeeding for transwomen, chestfeeding for women. Only males can keep the word.

And despite breastfeeding, pooners still wanna use their binders:

For some transgender men, nursing or pumping in private and having appropriate masculine, nursing-friendly clothes may be helpful in managing symptoms of gender dysphoria. Some may wish to bind their chest to reduce gender dysphoria and should be counseled to take precautions to prevent mastitis or reduced milk supply.

On testosterone during breastfeeding:

Limited research about testosterone taken by the nursing parent has reported that it is unlikely to adversely affect the infant given its low oral bioavailability (MacDonald et al., 2016; Hoffkling et al., 2017; Drugs and Lactation Database, 201. Testosterone lowers serum prolactin levels and may partially suppress lactation, especially if taken before the milk supply is well-established (Drugs and Lactation Database, 201.

Doesn't matter, the fetus was already exposed to it in utero.

Not much else of note in the paper, albeit there's a bit on misgendering and how that made a pooner named 'Joe' upset. Discussion of CBT inbound. Notes on how healthcare providers should 'do better'.


One final note:

Aversives (e.g., misgendering by a HCP) may affect a transgender patient’s success in breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and lactation. Doulougeri, Panagopoulou, and Montgomery (2013) found that self-reported stress in mothers [sic] had a negative influence on milk volume, frequency of feeding, and timing and duration of the first feeding after birth. Since misgendering and discrimination have been widely reported by TGNB patients to be highly stressful events, they may negatively affect milk production and feeding, in addition to making the patient less likely to seek medical care in the future. Doulougeri et al. (2013) provided an example of how TGNB people are typically excluded from consideration in lactation research. Their study is written about “mothers,” yet does not mention having asked participants to report their gender identity during data collection.

If you get triggered at being called a mother, DO NOT GET FUCKING PREGNANT. That's literally all you have to do, you stupid fucking pooner.

 

[Jacques1194]

Makes you wonder why the pooner even bothered to get pregnant if the dysphoria was so bad.

Has any TIF come up with a dumb reason as to how pregnancy and child birth have nothing to do with "gender" and yet some how their breasts makes them suicidal? Hell I remember hearing this one story about a TIF who wanted a C section because giving birth would be a "traumatic" experience for her. Like why the fuck are you pregnant then if your vagina makes you dysphoric?

 

[Wallace]

Has any TIF come up with a dumb reason as to how pregnancy and child birth have nothing to do with "gender" and yet some how their breasts makes them suicidal? Hell I remember hearing this one story about a TIF who wanted a C section because giving birth would be a "traumatic" experience for her. Like why the fuck are you pregnant then if your vagina makes you dysphoric?

You're looking for logical consistency in a group that is opposed to logical consistency.

"Dysphoria", "trauma", and "transphobia" just mean "I'm a victim, therefore I'm morally in the right".

 

[Procrastinhater]

This is a sickness. It is sick, and it is therefore deviant and we do not want it. - Pasta Dr. Martin Ssempa

 

[Stan]

I don't care how "crip-positive" you are, dementia isn't the same as being paraplegic or even mentally ill. "Provide demented people markers and crayons so they can give input" is the social work version of "let them eat cake." Someone who's lost so much of themself is not going to be able to understand that there's a larger issue. They have a unique perspective, but it's going to need a specialized interviewer.

Demented people legally can't make most of their own decisions, and that's not like being black in a society that thinks you're a slave. Memory care has locked doors because nobody's advance directive explicitly states that they want to be allowed to wander into the night and die of exposure.

There's a really murky area between "totally demented" and "impaired but still able to make decisions" where ALZ patients are going to spend a lot of their time, and it complicates everything from estate planning to advance directives to whether or not a demented person can still consent to sexual contact. (Can they? Maybe. It depends.)

I dislike the idea of putting the person an ALZ patient used to be on a pedestal, like, let's say that someone said the day before diagnosis, "wow I wish they would just shoot me if it turns out to be Alzheimer's", but then two years and a good bit of cognitive decline later, they seem to still be able to enjoy their lives, imo that life has value in and of itself and they shouldn't be shot just because that's what their past selves would have wanted.

And yet. I could see aging troons with dementia being a giant pain in the ass to care for, as they oscillate between believing they are gender they transitioned to and their natal gender, with subsequent freakouts every time they realize they don't have a dick, or that the closet has man clothing in it, or that they can recall memories of being a little boy, but they believe they're a woman, and cannot recall what happened in the interim. The good news is that the distress is transient, the bad news is, unlike most biographical facts that would distress dementia patients, caretakers can't easily redirect from that distress with a comment like "your penis just stepped out for coffee and smokes, I'm sure it'll be back soon", and it's going to come up over and over again throughout the day.

Has any TIF come up with a dumb reason as to how pregnancy and child birth have nothing to do with "gender" and yet some how their breasts makes them suicidal? Hell I remember hearing this one story about a TIF who wanted a C section because giving birth would be a "traumatic" experience for her. Like why the fuck are you pregnant then if your vagina makes you dysphoric?

I've never really understood how trans "men" can undertake pregnancy and childbirth - which if you ask me, is basically the sine qua non of being female - and still maintain a masculine identity in any way. You're a man dood? Like, in what way? I'm sure I've lost touch with some friends over this.