Stonewall change definition of transphobia - questioning gender identity ok now

There is no study that shows reliably that people's brains have 'developed in a way that does not match the body'.

If you have a link that proves this (and not the one that never controlled for same sex attraction and made a stronger conclusion than the evidence showed) please link it up. Otherwise, please stop spreading harmful misinformation.

Yes, scientific understanding of genetics, but next to that is also the biology and the process of development. The scientific definition on transgender people is that in their development, the brain developed in a way that it does not match the body. This by itself is not strange, because the development of the body is hugely dependent on and sensitive to hormones. In particular the brain. For instance menopausal women have a risk on depression because of loss of hormone balance. The medication used for treatment (hormone supplement) is interestingly the same as used for trans women. Which for this reason are biologically different from men. A man subjected to female hormones would risk an acute depression with a high probability of suicide. This is what happened to the WW2 hero Alan Turing. He was homosexual at the time it was a criminal offence, he has subjected to a forced hormone therapy .... and killed himself. For transgender people with significant dysphoria it is the other way around, the have a depression and the change fixes it. That's all

Well, science is about verification of theory. The medical community seems to think that way, and thus what the consider the best approach to transgender care.

"Every single major medical organization, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association, supports the provision of age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people. These organizations represent millions of doctors, researchers, and mental health professionals in the United States. Gender-affirming care has always existed and isn’t a new phenomenon"

I am always nonplussed when someone tries to tell me that instead of loving and accepting children for who they are in the bodies they were born in so they can grow up confident and free, we should instead tell them they’re broken and need new pronouns, medical interventions and to spend the rest of their lives demanding validation that they’re actually someone else.

Well, science is about verification of theory. The medical community seems to think that way, and thus what the consider the best approach to transgender care.

"Every single major medical organization, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association, supports the provision of age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people. These organizations represent millions of doctors, researchers, and mental health professionals in the United States. Gender-affirming care has always existed and isn’t a new phenomenon"

I am always nonplussed when someone tries to tell me that instead of loving and accepting children for who they are in the bodies they were born in so they can grow up confident and free, we should instead tell them they’re broken and need new pronouns, medical interventions and to spend the rest of their lives demanding validation that they’re actually someone else.

@FlirtsWithRhinos Surely it’s more accurate to say you come from Liverpool and your colleague comes from Essex, but insists on speaking to you on an exaggerated Scouse accent and telling you to respect their Liverpudlian identity or be reported for hate crimes.

Well, as we are here (on this site) as parents, and concerned about our children and how they are treated (I have two adolescents)

Imaging having a trans daughter, or son. If they are and as parent you insist it is not true, is that in their best interest ?

Or if we recognize who they are, and they go to school, and they're being bullied and misgendered, would we stand up for them ?

It is not about rights as in "Why does someone have the right to demand others use those pronouns?"

It is about: How would you like others to treat your own child ! Or in case you are
that child yourself, how would you want to be treated.

Even simpler: Why would you not use the pronouns befitting that person, it is not as if it costs us something not ?

I think it's more like if you come from Liverpool and you have a colleague who comes from Essex but insists on doing a bad Scouser impersonation and joking about stealing cars together, but instead of your boss telling him he's well out of order, your boss tells you you have to agree with him that he is indeed from Liverpool and that you do share a lot in common.

Well, as we are here (on this site) as parents, and concerned about our children and how they are treated (I have two adolescents)

Imaging having a trans daughter, or son. If they are and as parent you insist it is not true, is that in their best interest ?

Or if we recognize who they are, and they go to school, and they're being bullied and misgendered, would we stand up for them ?

It is not about rights as in "Why does someone have the right to demand others use those pronouns?"

It is about: How would you like others to treat your own child ! Or in case you are
that child yourself, how would you want to be treated.

Even simpler: Why would you not use the pronouns befitting that person, it is not as if it costs us something not ?

However, imagine a transgender colleague at work, and on purpose, misgendering that person, that would be rude, and persistently doing so would be bigoted, because it is 'reasonable' to do not see a transgender in a certain way, but it is 'unreasonable' to behave like that, because of ones belief.

Is it?

Using wrong sex pronouns is not a neutral act. Social transition in schools is now actively discouraged for a reason.

Why does someone have the right to demand others use those pronouns?

It's like demanding another employee says grace before eating in the staff canteen because otherwise it's disrespectful to someone else's belief.

It's bollocks.

Well, science is about verification of theory. The medical community seems to think that way, and thus what the consider the best approach to transgender care.

"Every single major medical organization, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association, supports the provision of age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people. These organizations represent millions of doctors, researchers, and mental health professionals in the United States. Gender-affirming care has always existed and isn’t a new phenomenon"

This is at best an unverified theory

Except turin wasn't given cross sex hormones he was chemically castrated with puberty blockers.
Add to that your claims about scientific definition of transgenderism has repeatedly been shown to be bs and not backed by any reliable evidence. Also trans people are at no higher risk of suicide than any other group, however once they transition their risk of suicide is increased from before in large part due to the effect of the cross sex hormones and/or surgeries that they've taken/had.
So basically everything you've said in your post is the complete opposite of what is known provable fact.

Yes, scientific understanding of genetics, but next to that is also the biology and the process of development. The scientific definition on transgender people is that in their development, the brain developed in a way that it does not match the body. This by itself is not strange, because the development of the body is hugely dependent on and sensitive to hormones. In particular the brain. For instance menopausal women have a risk on depression because of loss of hormone balance. The medication used for treatment (hormone supplement) is interestingly the same as used for trans women. Which for this reason are biologically different from men. A man subjected to female hormones would risk an acute depression with a high probability of suicide. This is what happened to the WW2 hero Alan Turing. He was homosexual at the time it was a criminal offence, he has subjected to a forced hormone therapy .... and killed himself. For transgender people with significant dysphoria it is the other way around, the have a depression and the change fixes it. That's all

However, imagine a transgender colleague at work, and on purpose, misgendering that person, that would be rude, and persistently doing so would be bigoted, because it is 'reasonable' to do not see a transgender in a certain way, but it is 'unreasonable' to behave like that, because of ones belief.

Is it?

Using wrong sex pronouns is not a neutral act. Social transition in schools is now actively discouraged for a reason.

Why does someone have the right to demand others use those pronouns?

It's like demanding another employee says grace before eating in the staff canteen because otherwise it's disrespectful to someone else's belief.

It's bollocks.