REPATH: Genspect and Beyond Gender

[2021x]

Apologies if these have already been discussed I couldn't see them on any other thread.

Below are the links to the videos from Genspect discussing the history of how Transgenderism became de-pathologised but remained medicalised.

They are each between 80-90mins long but give crucial context of how we are in a situation today where someone's intense mental distortions about themselves are being classed as a "normal" way of being. First, in the medical community, and eventually in the political sphere.

They also discuss personality traits and alternative explanations for why these emotions and thoughts can be so pervasive in individuals, and compare them to similar conditions. Part of the discussion is how surgery and medicine do not sustainably address the issues a person has, and what evidence-based alternatives exist.

It is a fascinating discussion and history lesson- even if taken with the obvious bias and opinion, there are plenty of verifiable facts that have demonstrated that medicalisation of people with disturbing feelings about their body has a high risk of harm compared to low achievable results.

The recommendation is that gender incongruence is re-pathologised into the DSM and only evidence-based methods of intervention, i.e. not affirmation "therapy", are applied, especially to minors.

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Thanks 2021 I’ve seen this discussion and agree. The focus on depathologising/legitimising gender ‘treatments’ and dysphoria has been deeply harmful and needs to be reversed.

Have been following Róisín Michaux for a while now who's been covering this.
Transvestic disorder has absolutely been depathologised, from paraphilia, to dysphoria, to sexual health category.
In parallel with the HIV industry trying to bring developing world trans & "third gender" sex workers in from the cold, legitimizing trans IDs to get these individuals onto the meds protocols.
The purely Western transgender social movement has intersected with this.
Reading Róisín as she lays bare the NGOs mission via EU etc makes for very depressing reading.

Fetishistic disorders are also now reduced to “don’t yuk my yum”. “It’s ruining your life, mate. You’re wanking at work, in the supermarket and spending all your time money and energy on your sexual fantasy. It’s not good for you”

Ugh don’t yuk my yum is a new one for me

Watching the videos has highlighted some genuine concerns I have had about the ethics of transgender medical intervention, which focuses on the distorted feelings of a person and removes/mutilates healthy functional tissue to temporarily alleviate that discomfort.

I took note of the theme that people with mental illness are not really aware of having the illness, and they react VERY strongly when reality is presented to them. It makes it easier, therefore, to understand why some of the more "kind(?)" people in positions of influence would prioritise calming them down rather than thinking of the implications of what they are sanctioning.