"The gender dysphoria monster is often holding hands with an accumulation of other monsters — self harm, depression, anorexia..the loudest and most pervasive narrative at the moment is that if you have gender dysphoria you really are whatever that demon is telling you you are. "
"The reason we treat gender dysphoria the way we do comes from promoting the concept that the gender dysphoria gremlin is correct — that its angry little voice is a reflection that there is something wrong with a dysphoric person’s body — that there is a ‘mismatch’."
"that gender dysphoria is caused by the essence of female or male (or neither, or both) having got muddled up..into the wrong sexed body.They call this essence ‘innate gender identity’, but the closer this concept is scrutinized, the more it falls apart as..gender stereotypes."
"Surely, the solution to feeling unhappy about conforming to societal expectations of gender isn’t to start a life time of hormone treatment and surgeries? Surely, the solution is to reject the societal expectations, not affirm that the gender dysphoria gremlin is correct."
"the left have taken a giant step backwards into regressive gender norms. By moving away from using sex to determine our class as a man or a woman, and instead using the presence of the magical gender essence, we continue to prop up the gender binary."
"Does Sam Smith feel like a woman sometimes because he’s experienced oppression as a woman sometimes, or when he says he ‘feels like a woman’, does he mean because he likes stuff traditionally associated with women? I doubt it is the former."
"there are no real studies comparing surgical vs non-surgical long term treatment problems. We also have no way to report detransition (which also means that trans suicide statistics are unable to identify detransitioners...
...could people be losing their lives because their dysphoria was not eased by medical transition?) This is a problem. It means we do not know how successful the current ways of treating dysphoria are at all."
"none of this is to say that transition shouldn’t be an option for people suffering with gender dysphoria. Neither is it saying that transition is always the wrong treatment option...
...However, in light of gender identity politics and the way this movement is growing, we seem to have lost sight that this is a condition. Gender dysphoria is a gremlin. We must fund research into various treatments for the long term — not just the medical pathway...
... But to do this we must abandon the idea that gender dysphoria is evidence that someone have been born in the wrong body."
