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- Feb 21, 2016
The latest blog post on this page is fascinating; the account of a mother whose daughter is a bit of a "seeker", who seems to mindmeld with whatever diagnosis she's currently after. Friend had an eating disorder? She developed bulimia. Still felt out of place? BPD diagnosis. She didn't like the BPD diagnosis, so convinced herself she had gender dysphoria and was "non-binary". Still didn't like the bpd diagnosis, she was autistic, complete with new stimming behaviors at 16. Godbear bless the autist doctors, who were the only professionals in this whole story that said "yeah, you're not autistic, you're just kind of needy."
Then she finally got her act together around age 18, enrolled in University, is a weird and bookish but otherwise normal young woman. This is what happens to the majority of youths seeking help, if the medical teams don't let them drive. And she was given almost every diagnosis she craved, except for autism. When that was withheld, and she got into a structured college prep course, she got better.
Here's an article intended to be a resource after the closure of the CAMH Gender Identity Clinic. Its a collection of the child gender study results by Dr. James Cantor. The studies took place between 1972 and 2013, and the results are telling: the vast majority of the children are either regular gay males or lesbian females, or straight and confirmed in their birth gender. This has been proven over 3 decades of research; the thing that changed by 2008 was that trans activists were narcissistically injured by these results and demanded they be scrapped for a system more pleasing to their anxiety.
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Lastly, something Dr. Zucker did at CAMH was to encourage the parents not to push their own agendas and assumptions on to their child. When a child says "I hate my penis", you have to ask them questions about what it is they hate about penises and their penis, not immediately assume they're trans and need treatment for that. Does their penis hurt? Are their clothes too tight? Has someone touched their penis? Do they feel sexual urges and they don't like it? Do they associate penises with some kind of male action that upsets them (anger, poor emotional behavior, etc)?
Can we grab this article? "Ethical Concerns About Emerging Treatment Paradigms for Gender Dysphoria."
Another doctor whose work may be worth looking into: Dr. Eric Vilain (that last name is gonna trigger the troons like whoa). He's the guy who actually checks down to the genetic level and has seen there are not 57 genders.
Quote from Dr. Vilain: