Have there been any studies about elderly trans people with dementia?

[GreatFox]

I am currently dealing with dementia in my personal life.

So many people with dementia revert back to childhood emotionally and withing their own version of reality. We are told the best thing to do is go along with this as correcting them can be upsetting (ie telling them their mums have passed away 30 years ago)

I was wondering if its known if Trans people go back to thinking they are their biological sex if they have dementia? As they most probably would have lived their childhoods as thei biosex.

And if they become confused/distressed if they have had gender reassignment surgery?

Isn't that more or less what I said? The chances of there being no living creatures in a forest is pretty much zero.
I suppose this particular quote or philosophical question or whatever it is winds me up because one of my strange relatives once sent me some kind of religious brainwashing type video, where the young man who was trying to do the brainwashing (at great length) stated categorically that there would be no sound if there was no one there to hear it. A stupid diagram of a tree falling down again and again with no sound was employed to hammer home their point. Surely the whole point of asking the question about a tree falling in the forest is to engender philosophical thoughts and discussions, not to find a concrete answer, because there isn't one.

I guess this is something I need to let go of ... meanwhile the question about elderly trans people wondering what the hell has happened to them remains. I think it's simplistic to say that people are born one thing and remain that thing forever. People change throughout their lives. It's a trueism though that people who are old revert to a second childhood. But I do not think that a human being or any other mammal can change sex. That's not a philosophical question, it is fact.

That poor woman. Imagine putting up with everything she'd put up with, thinking she was doing the right thing and being a dutiful, loving wife, and then having their life together end like that.

It's going to be rather like support and health care for detransitioners - research and development will be badly needed, but resisted, discouraged and heavily hindered because of the risk of unhelpful information becoming public knowledge that undermines the political ideology. Gender activism currently controls politics and policy makers. Person-centred care is potentially politically very unhelpful. Political centred care is highly unethical. (But hey, ethics is so last century.)

Yes in practice it is going to be incredibly distressing and disorienting for a person with dementia who is discovering on a daily basis bodily adaptations, or whose memory is now focused within a time before they changed their identity, and they will absolutely need very sensitive care. I note however in the article the comment implying that the memory loss took them back to a time when they had not decided to externalise their true identity. It controls the idea to ensure that gender was definitely absolutely always known and there and there was never a time before. Which already sets the narrative and paves the way for insensitive, distressing practice that would be more about controlling that person's role in the narrative to avoid them being able to damage it, rather than truly hearing them and their feelings and needs.

Hearing people, actual person centred care, coping with anything outside the rigid narrative is not something this movement tolerates.

My uncle got dementia in his early sixties due to alcoholism. The last photo I ever saw of him was him dressed fully as a woman and he died a couple of years later. Not sure what that means!

Wouldn't it also work the other way round then. If gender identity is innate and immutable as tras would have it, would we not see people who've suppressed their inner-true-opposite-sex-self (probably because of us mean terfs) suddenly transitioning if Alzheimer's took away their inhibitions. Aside from the pp's uncle, has this ever happened?

It is common for men to become sexually disinhibited with dementia. We certainly hear about this a lot. Less common, I think, in women. If transgenderism was innate, but had been stifled, wouldn’t it be expressed as part of male sexual disinhibition? Or would the transgenderists say that the lack of expression proves that men who identify as women would not become as disinhibited as other men, because they would be behaving as a woman, therefore not displaying sexual disinhibition?