The popular Reddit sub r/science is focusing on the science of transgender issues this week

[Terfing]

They have quite a lot of AMAs (ask me anything chats) lined up with professionals in transgenderism, which I think will be interesting to many here. I'm on my phone so can't link, but if you go to the Reddit website and search 'science', it should be the first board to appear.

The first chat was with the medical director at a transgender clinic. Sadly, it is scary to read!

I read the comments before the event started. I don't think my blood pressure could take any more.

If you report back can you grade it on a scale of mildly stressful to head explosion?

I noticed that although it was an AMA, there were conditions on things that you couldn't say.

One woman even said it would be useful if you give us a list of questions that we are actually allowed to ask.

Snort.

They had a huge thread about "what questions should not be asked in this Ask Me Anything".

There's apparently also a lot of deleting and banning going on.

There's apparently also a lot of deleting and banning going on.

Course there is. Women, you are allowed an opinion as long as it's my opinion. And even when you express it, you have to be friendly, kind, courteous and subservient.

Lurker peering above the parapet here. Currently the AMA on reddit are focusing on the diagnosis and social transition of prepubescent children. I am weeping with frustration

Trying for a link...Transgender Health AMA Series: I'm Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, Medical Director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. I'm here to answer your questions on patient care for transyouth! AMA!
www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6pfmrr/transgender_health_ama_series_im_dr_johanna/

OMG! In the FAQ at the top of that page, they openly say that 'sex' and 'gender' are different, but should match!

The recomended treatment is basically indoctrination!

If gender did not have strong cultural influences, then surely the gender characteristics, associated with women and men, would be the same across cultures? However there are differences across different cultures.

If there is now some 'standard', it is understandable there might be whole cultures of people, whose sex is female, that cannot identify as 'female gender'. But who decides the standard? And why make a decision that it is the gender which should be changed instead of culture?

I can't read that bollocks, will get me so wound up I'll whistle when I go for a piss

AMA eh? Ok, "how does a trans woman know they are really a woman?"

I still don't think we've had an answer to that have we?

Olson-Kennedy is the star of this piece
4thwavenow.com/2017/07/23/i-just-gave-him-the-language-top-gender-doc-uses-pop-tart-analogy-to-persuade-8-year-old-girl-shes-really-a-boy/

Conversion therapy

Well quite clarity if a gender non conforming child was raised in a society where gendered expectations were opposite of our stereotypes and as diagnosed trans and then the child moved here...would that child still be trans?