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Goddamn it, I got ninja'ed. I was going to post this because if lesbians are not women who are exclusively attracted to women instead of whatever alphabet soup this person thinks they are, then what the hell are they? Having explicit and verifiable definitions for words and telling people they are incorrect when they use a word incorrectly isn't an erasure or genocide. If you do not conform to the definition of something, then you are not that thing, no matter how much you delude yourself into thinking otherwise.
Troons saying they're lesbians because they're attracted to the idea of lesbians and making lesbians fuck them from a straight male perspective is like me barging into the US treasury demanding gold and money because I'm attracted to the idea of being a multimillionaire.
 
The thing about all paraphilia is that psychs don't even really have the best understanding of them. They understand it once it happens, and there are some loose connections they can make based on happenings in someone life but it isn't something that will happen to 100% of people. Moreover, because Freud made the error of trying to attribute the studies he made on people seeking out psych care to people not doing so psychs are really reluctant to make clear and concise links if they don't have baseline people to look at as well.

Two of the things that you have to look at for psych diagnosis is whether or not the patient is bothered by whatever they're going through and whether it affects their quality of life.

My understanding is that one of the reasons homosexuality got stripped from the DSM is that gays without other problems don't necessarily feel distress about having same-sex attraction and in the absence of overt homophobic policies they're not going to trash their own lives just because they like dick instead of pussy. To put it another way, you can be gay and be very happy.

People with occasional manic episodes may not need treatment as long as they're not spending all their money like drunken sailors, people who are schizoid (which is totally different than schizophrenic) might have a fine time not interacting with other people, and so forth.

There might be troons out there who are otherwise well-adjusted, we just don't see them on Kiwis because they're going about their daily lives and not making spectacles of themselves.

Paraphilia is in the same sphere: If two people get their jollies dressing up like clownfish, it's not a problem unless they think it's a problem.

Kevin is clearly 100 pounds of cope in a 75-pound bag. There are a few people out there with all the paraphilias, and the question is why.
 
Two of the things that you have to look at for psych diagnosis is whether or not the patient is bothered by whatever they're going through and whether it affects their quality of life.

My understanding is that one of the reasons homosexuality got stripped from the DSM is that gays without other problems don't necessarily feel distress about having same-sex attraction and in the absence of overt homophobic policies they're not going to trash their own lives just because they like dick instead of pussy. To put it another way, you can be gay and be very happy.

People with occasional manic episodes may not need treatment as long as they're not spending all their money like drunken sailors, people who are schizoid (which is totally different than schizophrenic) might have a fine time not interacting with other people, and so forth.

There might be troons out there who are otherwise well-adjusted, we just don't see them on Kiwis because they're going about their daily lives and not making spectacles of themselves.

Paraphilia is in the same sphere: If two people get their jollies dressing up like clownfish, it's not a problem unless they think it's a problem.

Kevin is clearly 100 pounds of cope in a 75-pound bag. There are a few people out there with all the paraphilias, and the question is why.
You're being too generous. I'm clocking Kevin at at least 200 pounds.
 
You're being too generous. I'm clocking Kevin at at least 200 pounds.
As of May 9, he was 231 pounds, and seemingly psyched about it...
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Eh, hospitals like UCSF are definitely not bring-your-own-drugs as a rule. You can sometimes--if you cleared it beforehand--bring your stock of something that's a specialty item, the kind of thing you have to go to a compounding or specialty pharmacy for, but UCSF is one of those places which likely has it on hand or has somebody who can whip it up at need.

Fun fact! One of the most common EMRs out there lets you flag patients, and it is very commonly policy to flag somebody who is caught with mystery drugs. This flag means a pop-up will happen every time somebody opens the patient's chart, meaning that even the office staff may end up knowing.

Nobody gives a fuck why you chimped out. You're probably going to find the staff avoiding you, though, because the pay does not actually go up if you're dealing with a combative patient.


I'll agree with the first part--nurse told him firmly no outside pills--but I suspect he sincerely believes that it was because the nurse is a TERF & he's a poor innocent troon who dindu nuffing.

This is a huge part of why you'll get TERFs and TERFy types at places like UCSF. Troons are probably the worst thing around for trans rights, and could do a lot for their fellow transfolx by just...41%ing themselves. Or not being troons, but they're more likely to manage the first option...


Yeah, and honestly I would be okay with them having a thing for imagining themselves as a chick (hottie or nottie) if they weren't insisting I play along. I mean, my tolerance is pretty much fully set by how much you respect my right to not be involved in your kink without my consent.

You leave me alone? As long as you're not harming kids or animals, nor raping and/or murdering people, I don't give a fuck. If you insist on involving me? You skipped asking me if I was down for it. It won't even matter if I might like the kink, you didn't ask.

There's a reason I think it's very interesting that the Tumblrinas were so regularly reminding each other what consent is, given that they and their diaspora on Twitter have a tendency to suck at it.
There's loads of people getting up to weird shit in the privacy of their own home, and then act completely normal when they leave the house, and it's a free country so I don't really care.

The issue with troons is they are making their fetish everyone else's problem. you wanna wear a dress and call yourself an anime girl on your own property? go ahead, it's a free country. now if you are gonna start demanding to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that my female friends and family are using, then I have a problem with you
 
Two of the things that you have to look at for psych diagnosis is whether or not the patient is bothered by whatever they're going through and whether it affects their quality of life.
Never really saw the wisdom in having a potential disorder be determined based on how the patient feels about it. Such subjectivity doesn't really allow for any definitive classification of mental illnesses, does it? After all, if someone doesn't seem bothered by it, then who are we to say they're unwell?
 
This is why we call you exclusionists. You are intentionally separating lesbians and transwoman
Little bit confused by why you consider this an issue wedge?
It's very straight forward and not an intentional separation
It's simply sorting by category:

If you have a penis or used to have one and you exclusively fancy women:​
Straight man​
If you do not have a penis, have never had one and you exclusively fancy women​
Lesbian woman​

Hope that helps with your confusion
 
I had to go look up that Ripley dude’s Twitter. First off, I doubt the nurse is transphobic since he works for a doctor that is doing cosmetic surgery for trannies. Second, Ripley has drugs on him and for obvious reasons, hospitals don’t like not knowing what meds their patients are taking and searched him for additional ones (it’s called drug interactions and it can be bad, stupid tranny). Third, his feeding story doesn’t make sense, but I’ve heard nose tube feeding isn’t pleasant, so I guess it’s the on call doctor’s revenge for waking him up.
 
Never really saw the wisdom in having a potential disorder be determined based on how the patient feels about it. Such subjectivity doesn't really allow for any definitive classification of mental illnesses, does it? After all, if someone doesn't seem bothered by it, then who are we to say they're unwell?
I regret to inform you that we don't have any definitive classifications for mental illnesses. Half of them are poorly supported by the research, diagnostic criteria get changed constantly, if you send one person to ten doctors you'll get at least three diagnoses... It's all a mess, and kind of arbitrary, and frankly pretty fake.

The "causing distress and/or impairment in function" is there for the same reason that we don't by default surgically remove all lumps and bumps that might develop on a person's body. If someone hears voices, but they're fully aware the voices are fake, it doesn't distress them, and it doesn't impact their ability have friends/hold down a job/manage their family etc., then what's the fucking point in throwing expensive therapy and (generally poorly-understood or borderline-placebo, with horrible side effects) medication at them? The whole point of psychiatric treatment is to improve someone's quality of life, and it's unlikely that intensive therapy and nasty drugs are doing to do so for someone that's already happy and well-adjusted. We can still diagnose them as a "voice hearer" or "individual with [specific classification of the hallucinations they experience go here]" but by definition they don't have a pathology as such because it's not harming them.

It's also often tossed in for stuff that has kind of vague or open/ended diagnostic criteria to prevent everyone and their aunt getting a diagnosis (and potentially being able to leech off disability etc.). Autism, for example, has the classic combo of social/communication issues and restrictive, repetitive behaviour, with both of those being interpreted very liberally (i.e. "sensory sensitivities" and "desire for routine" both fall under RRB). There's probably a lot of mildly socially awkward kids who like routine and dislike itchy jumpers - are we going to diagnose all of them as autistic, despite this affecting their life not at all? No, that's dumb, and it would entitle them to access a bunch of funding that they don't need, but that the kid next door who headbangs and can't make friends and has a meltdown if the bus is a minute late really, really does.
 
Little bit confused by why you consider this an issue wedge?
It's very straight forward and not an intentional separation
It's simply sorting by category:

If you have a penis or used to have one and you exclusively fancy women:​
Straight man​
If you do not have a penis, have never had one and you exclusively fancy women​
Lesbian woman​

Hope that helps with your confusion
lol you think words have meaning in current year
 
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