This article is so balanced and well-written. And extremely well-researched. Thank you, Bernard! I am the Danish psychotherapist quoted in the article. If anyone wants to read my blog "Transgender - The Fine Print" ("Transkøn - Det med småt"), it can be found here: https://www.transkoen.dk/
Contra some Democrats resistant to the "right wing issue" they perceive in pediatric transition, the decline and fall of the 'trans kids' project will be seen by historians as a vindication of single payer healthcare systems.
Great news re Denmark. Something irks me a little. There seems to be a tendency to build in loopholes or backdoors. For example, maybe somewhere the surgery is banned for under 18 year-olds, but *except* for mature minors. What a mature minor is, is wide open to interpretation. Maybe puberty blockers are banned *except* for clinical trials. I don't quite get this. Given minors cannot legally consent, how can they be put on blockers for a trial?
It’s strangely pleasant to read in others writing of several points I’ve maintained for years on the subject, particularly the idea “opting out of the feminine rather than into the masculine”. Since the early 80’s in discussions on the subject I maintained that it’s impossible for someone to “feel like” they are the opposite sex, because their own baseline experience of feeling a sex is feeling their own body. That is all anyone can ever know, the experience they are born with.
You can, however be uncomfortable with that experience. For a male, transsexualism can only be the negation of being masculine, never the confirmation of “being” a woman, and vice-versa. Under that view transsexualism falls into a broad category of dysphorias where the mind creates discomfort in a mismatch between expectation and perception. My mind says I don’t have a leg (body integrity disorder) or I shouldn’t be able to see, or
I should not have a penis... it becomes reasonable.
This article is so balanced and well-written. And extremely well-researched. Thank you, Bernard! I am the Danish psychotherapist quoted in the article. If anyone wants to read my blog "Transgender - The Fine Print" ("Transkøn - Det med småt"), it can be found here: https://www.transkoen.dk/
Wonderful article.....it's why I am a paid subscriber.
Contra some Democrats resistant to the "right wing issue" they perceive in pediatric transition, the decline and fall of the 'trans kids' project will be seen by historians as a vindication of single payer healthcare systems.
Great news re Denmark. Something irks me a little. There seems to be a tendency to build in loopholes or backdoors. For example, maybe somewhere the surgery is banned for under 18 year-olds, but *except* for mature minors. What a mature minor is, is wide open to interpretation. Maybe puberty blockers are banned *except* for clinical trials. I don't quite get this. Given minors cannot legally consent, how can they be put on blockers for a trial?
It’s strangely pleasant to read in others writing of several points I’ve maintained for years on the subject, particularly the idea “opting out of the feminine rather than into the masculine”. Since the early 80’s in discussions on the subject I maintained that it’s impossible for someone to “feel like” they are the opposite sex, because their own baseline experience of feeling a sex is feeling their own body. That is all anyone can ever know, the experience they are born with.
You can, however be uncomfortable with that experience. For a male, transsexualism can only be the negation of being masculine, never the confirmation of “being” a woman, and vice-versa. Under that view transsexualism falls into a broad category of dysphorias where the mind creates discomfort in a mismatch between expectation and perception. My mind says I don’t have a leg (body integrity disorder) or I shouldn’t be able to see, or
I should not have a penis... it becomes reasonable.