Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

This popped up on my twitter feed today - it's a really interesting read (even though from 2015)

www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

For forty years as the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School—twenty-six of which were also spent as Psychiatrist in Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital—I’ve been studying people who claim to be transgender.

A rare issue of a few men—both homosexual and heterosexual men, including some who sought sex-change surgery because they were erotically aroused by the thought or image of themselves as women—has spread to include women as well as men. Even young boys and girls have begun to present themselves as of the opposite sex. Over the last ten or fifteen years, this phenomenon has increased in prevalence, seemingly exponentially. Now, almost everyone has heard of or met such a person.

But gird your loins if you would confront this matter. Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

Thank you. That looks really interesting. I plan to come back later on this evening and have a proper read. On first skim, this stood out:

Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to twenty times that of comparable peers.

That is horrific

Good to hear someone who may have real knowledge speaking .( especially when the article suppports your viewpoint)

Thanks for sharing that. A very interesting read.

He's been trying to reason with people for years, shame hardly anyone is listening (and lots of people want to pretend that he didn't see what he saw in terms of outcomes because he's a "conservative").

Excellent article. The post-surgery suicide rate is horrendous - surely any other procedure (e.g. plastic surgery) would have been stopped? How dreadful to be sold (literally, in the US) a solution with such a high risk factor. And that's not even considering the mental health of those who don't attempt or complete, or those who decide to desist. Surely, surely, every avenue of mental and emotional support should be considered first. I am honestly horrifed at the lack of care.

But then I'm horrified at the lack of mental health care for every condition, full stop.

the voice of reason

Didn't the Djehne (sp?) study find something similar, that if you ask people 6 months after surgery if they're happy they say everything is great but 10 years later not so much?