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Anti-LGBTQ Bigot Chaiya Raichik can’t explain the most basic element of Transgenderism other than to proclaim “It’s a Lie.” She doesn’t have a degree in biology. She isn’t a mental health or medical professional, but she just assumes that every licensed Psychologist, Psychiatrist and Physician in the entire country is just deliberately lying to parents and children about their gender.
The Anti-LGBTQ Anti-History Book Banning Founders of Moms For Liberty can’t explain what “Grooming” is. They wouldn’t even answer the question.
Why is it so hard for these conspiracy mongers to openly admit to their bullshit?
The term “transgender” refers to a person whose sex assigned at birth (i.e. the sex assigned at birth, usually based on external genitalia) does not align their gender identity (i.e., one’s psychological sense of their gender). Some people who are transgender will experience “gender dysphoria,” which refers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity. Though gender dysphoria often begins in childhood, some people may not experience it until after puberty or much later.
People who are transgender may pursue multiple domains of gender affirmation, including social affirmation (e.g., changing one’s name and pronouns), legal affirmation (e.g., changing gender markers on one’s government-issued documents), medical affirmation (e.g., pubertal suppression or gender-affirming hormones), and/or surgical affirmation (e.g., vaginoplasty, facial feminization surgery, breast augmentation, masculine chest reconstruction, etc.). Of note, not all people who are transgender will desire all domains of gender affirmation, as these are highly personal and individual decisions.
It is important to note that gender identity is different from gender expression. Whereas gender identity refers to one’s psychological sense of their gender, gender expression refers to the way in which one presents to the world in a gendered way. For example, in much of the U.S., wearing a dress is considered a “feminine” gender expression, and wearing a tuxedo is considered a “masculine” gender expression. Such expectations are culturally defined and vary across time and culture. One’s gender expression does not necessarily align with their gender identity. Diverse gender expressions, much like diverse gender identities, are not indications of a mental disorder.
This is what the people who are professionals who have studied the issue, and examined the patients have to say about it after decades of research. After thousands of examples.
This is what the American Medical Association says about Transgender patients.
Transgender patients often face discriminatory hurdles in accessing medically necessary health care services that affirm gender or treat gender dysphoria. As a population, transgender individuals are less likely to be insured than both the lesbian, gay, bisexual and general population. Among those that are insured, a national survey found that 25 percent of transgender individuals who sought coverage for hormones in the past year were denied and 55 percent of those who sought coverage for transition-related surgery in the past year were denied.
Improving access to gender-affirming care is an important means of improving health outcomes for the transgender population. Receipt of gender-affirming care has been linked to dramatically reduced rates of suicide attempts, decreased rates of depression and anxiety, decreased substance use, improved HIV medication adherence and reduced rates of harmful self-prescribed hormone use.
The AMA supports public and private health insurance coverage for treatment of gender dysphoria and opposes the denial of health insurance based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Gender Affirming Care improves conditions and saves lives. It can help prevent someone from becoming so frustrated that they harm themselves, they fall into depression and they may attempt suicide.
This is not something anyone else has “groomed” them into. No one is “lying” to them. If someone were “lying to them” and “grooming” them - everybody on the Left would be against that. That would be disgusting, that would be diabolical.
This is part of who they are, and this care is intended to help them accept themselves as they are. Nobody should be telling anyone else who they should be, they have a right to discover that on their own.
This random guy from a Trump rally (relevant portions starts at 2:43) does a better job of explaining the nature of the conspiracy theory than Raichik does.
A: Every one’s got an agenda that they want to push forward and it’s antithetical to freedom. Freedom is sort of the absence of that.
Q: Right, but if you feel you brought up Transgender Americans, they don’t feel free and they’re asking for freedom to live the way that they feel they were born and why should we reject that culture?
A: Well, it’s not that should - ok - so there’s kinda to questions there. It’s not that we need to reject the culture. It’s that we need to give them help, because they’re very confused individuals. I mean, men and women have always existed since the beginning of time, they’re separate. [So have Intersex persons] it’s a binary system. [It’s really not.] and I know that’s not popular to say right now [Because it’s not true, factually or biologically] but that’s what’s so unfortunate. We’re losing our grip on common sense.
I mean, everyone has known this in every corner of the globe throughout all of human history until about 2 minutes ago. [Centuries ago Native Americans had members of their tribe who were not exactly male or female, they accepted them as unique “Two spirits”] And y’know Bill Maher brought up a great point, he said “if this transgender movement is so Universal and it’s only coming out now because it’s more accepted then why is it Regional? Why is it not happening in places like Ohio? Why is it happening mostly in LA?” [Nex Benedict was from Oklahoma!] It’s happening in places where you have these leftist ideologues who are pushing this agenda. [It’s happening everywhere, but people aren’t being shamed, insulted and assaulted as often in places like LA.]
So if were something that is truly organic and grassroots it would have come out a long time ago. [It did. The DSM-5 was updated from “gender identity disorder” and replaced with “gender dysphoria.” in 2013.]
Q: Except the argument against that would be that historically, I mean gay rights movement, was centered in Greenwich Village and the Castro in San Francisco because they felt less persecuted in those places because of an acceptance, right? So if you’re in Ohio it might be more difficult in a small town, in a religious place, a place where you knew everybody in town. You go to a big city, you can get lost in a big city and be who you are, that’s what they say.
A: We want to give them help honestly. [That’s what Gender-Affirming care is - what you want to do is give them Conversion Therapy.] Okay, because their murdering themselves at a rate of 42%. [Which drops significantly when they receive care] and that’s before transitioning, after transitioning it sometimes gets worse. [That is incorrect.] So these are people who need help because they are confused. [Good diagnosis Doc!]
I mean, take any kid from middle school, ok, and ask them how they feel about themselves they’re going to be insecure, they can’t get a date, maybe they’re not very successful with girls or whatever the situation is and then tell them it’s ok, we understand, you’re actually a female trapped in a male body or vice versa. [Determining that is the job of a professional therapist, not you] It’s a very convenient excuse, it requires no proof what so ever, it’s not measurable, it’s not testable, there’s no standards..
There are very specific standards for a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria.
A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least six months’ duration, as manifested by at least two or more of the following:
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A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (or in young adolescents, the anticipated secondary sex characteristics)
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A strong desire to be rid of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics because of a marked incongruence with one’s experienced/expressed gender (or in young adolescents, a desire to prevent the development of the anticipated secondary sex characteristics)
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A strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender
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A strong desire to be of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
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A strong desire to be treated as the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
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A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
These are things that the patient expresses to their therapist, not something that the therapist tells them. That would be gross malpractice.
Continued:
A: And if you convince someone that that’s the root of the problem of course their going to go along with gender reassignment surgery and chemical castration and hormone replacement and all this other nonsense [Of course? You think that’s an easy and simple thing to accept and commit yourself to?] and they’re going to be permanently damaged and we’re seeing a lot of people who are now trying to detransition from the bad choices that were forced upon them by supposedly care givers and parents at an earlier age, it’s really tragic. [So you want the the government to do the parenting for them?]
Also, the rate of those who wish to detransition is exceptionally low.
In updated treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later regret is scant, but that patients should be told about the possibility during psychological counseling.
Dutch research from several years ago found no evidence of regret in transgender adults who had comprehensive psychological evaluations in childhood before undergoing puberty blockers and hormone treatment.
Some studies suggest that rates of regret have declined over the years as patient selection and treatment methods have improved. In a review of 27 studies involving almost 8,000 teens and adults who had transgender surgeries, mostly in Europe, the U.S and Canada, 1% on average expressed regret. For some, regret was temporary, but a small number went on to have detransitioning or reversal surgeries, the 2021 review said.
This is the conspiracy theory. “Groomers” aren’t tricking kids into believing a lie about themselves. This is the false narrative that Raichik, Justice and Descovich couldn’t bring themselves to express openly because they know how they would have come off as being completely ignorant of facts and science. Everything this man said is exactly the opposite of what medical professionals are doing and saying. It’s exactly the opposite of their method of diagnosis.
This is the guy who pushing an ideology. He’s pushing an agenda. He’s telling people they aren’t who they are and there is no correction or cure for them.
He’s exactly the person that is driving them to kill themselves, and justifying bullies to attack, assault and kill them. He wants them to be something and someone who they are not.
He’s endorsing and justifying terrorism. So are Raichik, Justice and Descovich - they’re putting children further at risk — and they don’t care how many will be harmed, or killed, by their conspiratorial rhetoric.
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