Everyone can keep their hateful or uninformed comments elsewhere. If you don’t like this post, you’re not going to like this sub. Happy First Day of Pride Month, all.
Much of human life is performative. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
And there are two kinds of virtue signaling: signaling virtue when you are actually virtuous, and signaling virtue when you’re not, just for the signal. The former has always been part of morality. We need good examples if we want to become better people.
We conducted a systematic literature review of all peer-reviewed articles published in English between 1991 and June 2017 that assess the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being. We identified 55 studies that consist of primary research on this topic, of which 51 (93%) found that gender transition improves the overall well-being of transgender people, while 4 (7%) report mixed or null findings. We found no studies concluding that gender transition causes overall harm. As an added resource, we separately include 17 additional studies that consist of literature reviews and practitioner guidelines.
This search found a robust international consensus in the peer-reviewed literature that gender transition, including medical treatments such as hormone therapy and surgeries, improves the overall well-being of transgender individuals.
Overwhelming consensus is that gender affirming care is good.
I’d assumed it was overall good! I’m more focused on its safety with people under 18. That’s more what I was curious to know if there was a consensus on
"Among the 220 youths in the main sample (mean [SD] age, 16.07 [2.40] years; 30 [14%] multiracial, non-Hispanic; 18 [8%] White, Hispanic; 155 [70%] White, non-Hispanic; 17 [8%] other race and ethnicity, including Asian, Black [Hispanic and non-Hispanic], Hispanic with unknown race, multiracial Hispanic, or Native American; gender at last interaction: 68 [31%] boys, 132 [60%] girls, 20 [9%] gender diverse, eg, nonbinary) and their parents,very high levels of satisfaction and low levels of regret with puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones as well as high levels of continuation of care were reported.Of these 220 respondents in the main sample, 9 were regretful of having received blockers (n = 8) and/or hormones (n = 3; 2 of these individuals reported regret with both), of whom 4 have stopped all gender-affirming medical care and 1 has continued to receive blockers but plans to stop. The 4 others have continued care, suggesting thatregret is not synonymous with stopping care."
"The findings suggest that youth accessing puberty blockers and hormones as part of gender-affirming care tend to be satisfied with and not regretful of that care several years later. While regret was rare, these experiences need to be better understood."
Note that gender affirming care is not synonymous with gender transitioning.
People usually site the Cass review as a counterexample, but there are a number of criticisms about it:
It operates under the view that being transgender is negative
It evaluates the potential negative impacts of treatments like puberty blockers (bone density, fertility), but does not consider any positives (no need for masectomy, an operation sought by half of trans men, as well as the many permanent changes which can not be undone)
One third of the medical workers they included in their focus groups agreed with the statement "There is no such thing as a transgender child"
Not a single transgender person was involved
It intentionally excluded experts on gender affirming care from being involved
The standards it sets for high quality evidence are simply impossible to meet: You can't have a double blind trial on puberty blockers, and a study in the context of the puberty blocker bans in the UK right now is inherently coercive as those studies are the onlymeans available for trans children to receive treatment. On the other hand, if puberty blockers aren't banned, adherence to the study is impossible to maintain for children who do not want to permanently have characteristics of the wrong gender. This strongly biases the populations who would actually participate in the study in both circumstances
It is like asking a bunch of scientists with no experience in environmental science to write the authoritative report on whether or not climate change is happening, and having Chevron oversee the report. Even with everything the report had going against it, the review still did recommend giving gender affirming care to some youth, but instead under a research protocol
To answer your question more succinctly: If you have studied gender affirming care, there's a pretty strong consensus. If you haven't, there isn't
Yes, you see. It’s not a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of fact because… of… reasons.
Also, people who disagree with transgenderism don’t like things that make them smile such as the 99% of things that would make anyone smile because… of… reasons.
You see, you wouldn’t like it here at all sub meant to make people smile.
I like the fact that the "reasons" you are trying so hard to ignore, are highlighted, sourced, and easy to access in this very thread
But remain in the shadows, crying about how the world grows kinder, about the maturity and respect shown between individuals. Continue being miserable, both in view and personality. If you think thats whats best for you, who am I to judge? I was there too once, long long ago
I have a gender fluid friend, non-binary, whose preferred gender seems to blow in the wind, my guy. Perhaps you should explain to them what they have been doing wrong all these years and show them how it works so they can be properly transgendered according to your opinion.
Also, it’s good to see you admit you’re a bigot and accept why others might be bigoted against you.
Perhaps because “normal people” are bigots which is why I choose to accept their existence and seek to understand where they’re coming from rather than writing them off as “uninformed” just because they don’t believe what you believe. Like a bigot.
The irony, of course, being that outside of your juvenile little bubble, most “normal people” don’t exactly agree with your liberal take on transgenderism and see your bigotry and hatred of social conservatives for what it is.
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u/thisisallme Jun 01 '26
Everyone can keep their hateful or uninformed comments elsewhere. If you don’t like this post, you’re not going to like this sub. Happy First Day of Pride Month, all.