What I really hate is people who express an opinion about children who undergo hormone blockers after being diagnosed with Gender Identity Dyphoria (GID), noting it's a physical or mental disease or illness and not a physical condition the body is incongruent with the mind. These people most often use religious or moral reasons against the parents who love, support and help their child make their own decisions.
That's because, which is the basis of their arguments against children undergoing transition, children do actually know if they are a boy, a girl or a combination of the two. Much against these people, with respect to identifying their gender, it's not something their confused about, it's the world which doesn't understand them that is their confusion.
As studies have shown, children are very good at knowing who they fundamentally are. They are not blank slates with their gender identity. Some will express themselves as a combination of the boy and girl which people often confuse as the child's uncertainity, but it's really the parents uncertainty. The children are fine, just let them be themselves.
As studies have also shown, and the opponents use as arguments or professionals use to suggest reparative therapy, is that children do know the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity. They don't fully understand it since sexual orientation is felt in puberty and recognized in the teen years. GID is recognized and expressed very early in life, most often between 3 and 6 years.
And this is what I hate, people assume the birth sex is both the body and mind sex and therefore fixed and unchangeable. How wrong they are. Nature isn't that absolute. What they see are themselves as with most people the body and mind are in agreement with the genetic and birth sex, so therefore, in their thinking, everyone must be the same. How wrong they are.
And this is also what I hate. The may show surficial compassion but when you listen to them or read their words, there is no compassion, only disdain and sometimes even hate. Hate for the child for knowing who they are, against the norms, and want to live as they know they are, and hate for the parent for their love, support and help for their child.
They talk understanding but express intolerance. They talk about sympathy but express hate. The talk God and the Bible, but they express what God would condemn and the Bible doesn't say. They talk faith but express discrimination. They talk christian values but express nonchristian values.
If they would step back and listen to anyone who has transitioned, they would see how wrong they are. All who transition know it was first recognized early in life, and it was only their family which either supported them or hated them, which taught them they're loved or hated for being themselves.
If they would step back and listen they would see their reasons are false, like a prophet who sells lies to people who want to believe lies to hate people different than themselves.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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