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Originally Posted by augie_
dude. why are you trying so hard to attribute thoughts to me that i didn't express. what the hell are you even talking about. get a grip man.
i never said it's obvious that not transitioning is the best medical course of action. said i don't know what the best treatment is. i said i personally don't think transitioning is the best idea (my opinion). and i said that the evidence is not at all clear that transitioning is the best course of action. the jury is still very much out.
it makes complete sense why transitions are now widely offered in today's litigious society and when transgenderism is couched in sexism and discrimination accusations. doctors today are basically hostages of their patients and if they deny certain care they can be sued.
I'm not trying to misrepresent your views.
I asked if you thought clinicians were recommending and providing treatments that went against the prevailing consensus of research and you said yes. If there's a misunderstanding here and you didn't mean yes, then fine. That's my question again, though: do you think that clinicians are acting against the prevailing consensus on trans people?
Because it's the case that as you look across the developed world, the consensus amongst the relevant professionals is that transitioning is the best treatment program available for many trans people.
I assure you that doctors and psychologists/psychiatrists in the UK are not hostages of their own patients. Pretty sure it's not true of places like Germany either. If anything, fear of litigation makes them less inclined to recommend radical treatments. Still, the consensus is largely that when someone is identified as trans to assist them in affirming the gender they identify as.
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this is such a dishonest argument, calling killing and eating someone freedom. just shut the hell up you liar. quit lying and gain some principles.
It's not dishonest to say that individuals have competing goals and that absolute freedom is a bad idea. What I'm saying is not to reduce this to a level of naivety in which you say "I support all freedoms". No, you support some or even most "freedom". But you and I agree that there are limits.