Good grief (but sadly unsurprising) So this is the kind of stuff we also take along to our MPs, right? Has had any treatment?
It is all backwards. This is not happening because of him being transgender. These worrying thoughts and identity issues come first through some triggering circumstances, then are 'made sense of' and rationalised away by an ill mind as 'feeling transgender'. Owning and mastering the symptoms as part of oneself rather than experiencing disorder and 'madness'.
Similar to the poor woman Debbie, who transitioned to being a transman because she thought it explained and solved how she felt about her body, then later realised that she had been to try to get away from/ resolve the effects of being sexually abused by her father.
It is not rocket science. The human mind does stuff like this. Tries to make sense of stuff, even if it gets it (horribly and dangerously) wrong, but good grief, we have to be treating people for it. Helping them and protecting other people. Not enabling them and their self diagnosis and letting them into women's and girls spaces. We know that women tend to act inwards and that men tend to act outwards on others. The threat of that is real.
What has happened to all our psychiatrists? It cannot be wrong or literal violence) to judge that some symptoms are worrying and potentially dangerous and in need of treatment - actual treatment, not enabling.
Is the part of the problem that we as a society we lack the will to pay for the long term treatment of mentally ill and disturbed people? (as with prisoners) That we judge it to be too expensive? And we resent the money it costs.
We have decided though that it is cruel and barbaric to just lock people up and throw away the key, or execute people (dammit, how inconvenient some say), but if we cannot/ will not pay for proper treatment, then we cannot pathologise symptoms because that would be expensive and so it must become something that society has to live with and tolerate, and thus we have to be brainwashed into thinking it can be acceptable?
Hence the enabling and colluding culture. Just another part of Care in the Community, but of course it is not because we all want to and can care for ill people and feel it our human duty, but it is just to save money, because we also do not want to pay for it someone else to do it.
Doctors collude because they are part of the system and/or misogynist, and/or because they have no budget for alternative treatment, and become disillusioned and rescuers because some MH problems are intractable and resist being cured, but can only be managed. They feel the toll and drudge of long term care (as carers do, as women do), made more miserable due to lack of funds, and so are susceptible to quick fixes or finding ways to rid themselves of their burden.
So the real goal is not tolerance, or removing stigma for the benefit of mentally ill people or oppressed people, the real goal is to save money?
Even the best of us feel the dead weight of long term problems, and we have got used to thinking that the state can help us and take some weight from us - but the state is cutting back and we are feeling more and more fall back onto our (women's) shoulders. We barely even have religious organisations to do help us nowadays.
So now we are having to (re)learn how to manage these problems as if there was no state.. prisoners, the mentally ill, caring for our elderly. How do we do it? Who pays the price? The price of an increasingly narcissistic society. This is our reality now. The post-war boom is long gone.
Then we have all the dangerous agendas that are continually looking for a horse to ride in on.
It has all been said before I know, but just musing. What a fucking nightmare we live in.