NB person in NYT article - help me understand this

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This person is clearly distressed and in need of help.

Why though, are they on hormones when they say that developing breast buds would be difficult for them?

There is no critical thinking demonstrated in this article - just "here, dude, have some drugs".

Am I wrong in thinking that this is poor care and likely to cause harm?

www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/magazine/gender-nonbinary.html?fbclid=IwAR1xSwq4pqlr2UvooDohv9UYlAPtZhfGCeo6NNiUraKrpdYJ17cndEvwCZM

I think this paragraph sums up what is wrong with the whole ideology.

“Think of getting out of the shower and standing in front of a mirror,” Jacobs said. “For most people, cis people, it’s easy to see those body parts as belonging to us, even if we might rather they be smaller or bigger or more muscular or whatnot. Now imagine that the mirror is a little blurry, streaky with steam. And let’s say you’re a binary trans person who hasn’t yet transitioned. Around the edges of the blurriness, between the streaks, you can at least imagine the reflection you want; you know what it is. But the nonbinary person may not have an image; even with the help of the foggy mirror, they may not be able to find themself.”

It's all about gazing in the mirror and what you see there. Even the therapists are centering appearance above everything. This young person needs help, but doesn't need the sort of 'help' which encourages them to obsess about their appearance.

Yes!

I don't see anything about "not liking your body is essentially normal because Marketing"

It's no different to the spike in anorexia when I was a teen because stupid magazines said stupid things and we were all stupidly susceptible.

NB really confuses me. I've tried to understand it, I really have.

Looking in the mirror and feeling like your body doesn't belong to you sounds like dissociation. If someone genuinely feels that way and isn't just putting it on to seem special, they need to be rescued from the gender cult and given psychiatric help.

'Feeling that you're in the wrong body' is at least something that can be grasped. But NB and genderfluid take the ideology past that concept , so it's no longer about bodies.