@Shizuku
Apologies for jumping in. I am one of those lurkers, but not the kind you specified. I had another question for you, if you would be so kind.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1869126 says, "One particular subcase within core detransitions concerns people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Anecdotal reports (e.g., Barnes & Cohen, 2019; Post-Trans, n.d.; Prestidge, n.d.) indicate that the rate of detransitioned individuals who fall within the autistic spectrum is higher than one would expect in the general population. In this regard, emerging evidence suggests a co-occurrence of GD and ASD (de Vries, Noens, Cohen-Kettenis, van Berckelaer-Onnes, & Doreleijers, 2010; Glidden, Bouman, Jones, & Arcelus, 2016; van der Miesen, Hurley, & de Vries, 2016), which may be related to an elevation in intense/obsessional interests around gender-related themes (VanderLaan et al., 2014; Zucker et al., 2017). The high number of individuals with GD who appear to fall in the autistic spectrum may explain why a significant number of core detransitioners also present autistic traits."
I know they say evidence is ancedotal, but could you speculate as to why so many folks with ASD are a large part of the cohort of detransitioners? Also, how do you treat gender dysphoria in a population that is particularly suspetible to transactivists like yourself who promise people who are on the social outs a solution to their problems?
The article also discusses how detransitioners had a desire for but did not know how to ask for non-affirmative treatment. From what I understand of your post, you would wish to make anything but affirmative treatment illegal. How does the specific desire for non affirmative treatment fit into this model? Patients are not allowed to seek care to alleviate their distress? Wouldn't that lead to more detransitioners later with no ability to get treatment and serve to protect interested parties from being culpable by making it impossible for people to seek treatment?
If gender identity is universal, why does a study of detransitioners in Spain find the largest cohort of detransitioners is transgirls/born male transition to girl and detransitioning back to boy? This appears to contradict experiences in the UK? Does the differences in gender suggest that gender identity is based on culturally specific gender roles based on historic sex based cultural demands around reproduction?
The study also found a detransition rate of 1.8% in Valencia compared to 2% in Sweden and 8% in the US. Are there cultural aspects to gender identity and treatment that are causing variance in these numbers? Or is the reason purely clinical in that the US appears to have less mental health care and supports affirmative only care , which causes higher rates of detransitioners? What should UK participants take away from those differences by country?
Also, can't find the study but i recall reading one that said that children of gay and lesbian couples were less likely to have children coming out as trans than children of heterosexual couples. My recall was the conclusion of the study was that this was because children in families of same-sex parents were less likely to be constantly exposed to damaging sex based gender norms and were allowed to be more gender non-conforming. Can you explain why there is a difference in prevalence based on sex based partners of their parents? Doesn't this seem to support an idea that gender identity is based on socialization and not on inate identity?
Apologies to the regulars on thread for jumping in and possibly derailing. Most places I hang out are very, "Kill the four letter T word!" and questioning is not allowed.