There’s an angle to this that’s not getting discussed. Psychology and psychiatry are fields that have had poor records of treating mental illness. They bounce from one idea to the next - psychoanalysis, lobotomy, biomedical, pharmacological, social systems - with routinely disappointing results and research that can’t be replicated. Righ…
There’s an angle to this that’s not getting discussed. Psychology and psychiatry are fields that have had poor records of treating mental illness. They bounce from one idea to the next - psychoanalysis, lobotomy, biomedical, pharmacological, social systems - with routinely disappointing results and research that can’t be replicated. Right now they’re being forced to deal with increasing publicity due to studies showing the mediocre results of SSRIs and the debunking of the “chemical imbalance” myth. Practitioners are realizing how limited their treatment toolboxes are. They are patched my onto the idea of affirmation only, drugs and hormones, because they *need* it to work. They need *something* to work.
Endocrinology are also fighting hard to be relevant. Ever since the discovery and external administration of insulin made so much difference to so many people, they have been desperate for a repeat. They worked with psychiatry on insulin shock therapy introduced without any proper clinical trials. They decided that children's height could be made "more appropriate" for their sex, again in conjunction with psychiatry. Now, as we all know, they are working with psychiatry to sterilise children through the administration of hormones. Well-informed science-fiction writers of the 60s and 70s often referred to hormone therapy to change moods and personality - there was a definite push to normalise interfering with the hormonal system in order to change people intrinsically, at a fundamental level. We are seeing yet another episode in this unethical experiment to control people.
It’s utterly absurd that societal discrimination against women and their continued treatment as second class human beings has been completely ignored by gender theorists and trans activists as a possible reason why prepubescent and adolescent girls may latch onto the idea of becoming men. Being on the spectrum and behaving like a tomboy through high school and into college, I had a very difficult time learning from experience that everything I’d been told about female equality was, in practice, a gigantic lie.
There’s an angle to this that’s not getting discussed. Psychology and psychiatry are fields that have had poor records of treating mental illness. They bounce from one idea to the next - psychoanalysis, lobotomy, biomedical, pharmacological, social systems - with routinely disappointing results and research that can’t be replicated. Right now they’re being forced to deal with increasing publicity due to studies showing the mediocre results of SSRIs and the debunking of the “chemical imbalance” myth. Practitioners are realizing how limited their treatment toolboxes are. They are patched my onto the idea of affirmation only, drugs and hormones, because they *need* it to work. They need *something* to work.
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Endocrinology are also fighting hard to be relevant. Ever since the discovery and external administration of insulin made so much difference to so many people, they have been desperate for a repeat. They worked with psychiatry on insulin shock therapy introduced without any proper clinical trials. They decided that children's height could be made "more appropriate" for their sex, again in conjunction with psychiatry. Now, as we all know, they are working with psychiatry to sterilise children through the administration of hormones. Well-informed science-fiction writers of the 60s and 70s often referred to hormone therapy to change moods and personality - there was a definite push to normalise interfering with the hormonal system in order to change people intrinsically, at a fundamental level. We are seeing yet another episode in this unethical experiment to control people.
It’s utterly absurd that societal discrimination against women and their continued treatment as second class human beings has been completely ignored by gender theorists and trans activists as a possible reason why prepubescent and adolescent girls may latch onto the idea of becoming men. Being on the spectrum and behaving like a tomboy through high school and into college, I had a very difficult time learning from experience that everything I’d been told about female equality was, in practice, a gigantic lie.