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https://x.com/jack_turban/status/1814446589924258276
This thread is quite good on how a lot of this research/ medicalisation is wrongfully interpreted for sake of a correct, politically convenient conclusion
The reports comments of, essentially “the improvement of mental health is due to co dependent mental health issues” is bonkers. as the poster comments, the way the independent report uses this data is incorrect, but to then incorrectly use it in this way shows the reading is made by someone with 0 interaction with trans patients. It in itself is conversion therapy, the idea that simple psychiatric intervention alleviates a persons need to transition. That gender dysphoria in itself is not a defined condition itself, but a symptom of other issues.
I say this as someone’s who depression all but disappeared post transition. My quality of life improved greatly as I did not have depression, but 10 years of intervention over that depression failed, it was simply taking a gnrh blocker that cured it. It was being allowed access to gender affirming hormones. Knowing I wasn’t locked into a path that I hated, was killing me, and showed me no hope for myself long term. A story echoed by literally hundreds of trans people I have met over the last few years.
Those who take gender affirming hormones and still persist with depression or other barriers to their life, which do not meat case’s insane “judging by employment statistics”, are not proof of hormone treatment effectiveness. But more reflective that post transition these people are facing constant harassment, abuse and dealing with either depression at how they could not do this sooner and are living with the impact of blockers being denied to them, abuse from the world around them, or watching theirselves being debated in the news with little to no representation.
A constant failing of these reports, as with all healthcare that deals with informed consent and wholistic care, is the minimising or misunderstanding of the opportunity cost. This is most clear in womens care. Often white, male, cis advisors and researchers do not acknowledge their lack of experience or bias in the barriers of these people. They simply cannot comprehend generational trauma, gendered trauma or racialised medicine. These barriers are dismissed or filtered through perspectives they do understand (such as depression, which itself is a minefield of medicalised bias) , or written off as irrelevant or “emotional not factual”.
Any woman who’s ever had to haggle with a doctor over the level of pain they’re feeling, or how “yes they want intervention regardless of the risk to future conception chances” will immediately understand this.