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So, the goal of treatment is not to simply reduce dysphoria. It's mainly to address their many times higher rate of suicide. The treatment that has been found to be most effective is medical transition.
It's not some cosmetic thing you can just go out and get. It requires doctors, and is very much considered a strong intervention only pursued when it is necessary, similar to having your stomach stapled for dealing with obesity. If you went to your doc and wanted a stomach stapling, there would be a lot you would have to go through first, to make sure such a drastic treatment was really necessary. Same with a transition.
The issue becomes then, how to treat these rare cases in our society after the medical intervention is done. Which bathroom, can they play sports, stuff like that.
I think that instead of both sides yelling at each other. There needs to be a discussion around this from both. When people stop talking to each other is when problems start to happen.
By "both sides" you mean the patient and their doctor, right? They're the only two sides who should be involved in medical decisions.
You're allowed to disagree, but you don't get a say in someone else's health, especially when you clearly don't have any background or knowledge of the field. You're just someone who doesn't understand thinking they know more than the experts. You don't.
Yes I agree