My brother works in the medical industry and he just worked with a doctor whose whole approach revolutionized forearm surgeries. This man’s whole point was that basically a million people have been crippled by forearm surgeries that have 1. No evidence to support their technique 2. Ample evidence and basically intuitive knowledge that they COULDN’T work. His talk was all about doctors creating problems bc they don’t think and question what they’re doing constantly. That is like half of medicine: 50% is wrong, and we don’t know which. I would argue 95-99% of gender medicine is totally wrong and ineffective treatments and methods for gender dysphoria just by thinking it through, without any need for a medical degree. A lot of people who don’t work with doctors or don’t know someone who does don’t seem to understand that doctors are fallible average people, many of whom, whether intelligent or not, don’t know how to think properly, and who are constantly figuring out, experimenting, making shit up and backtracking just like everyone else.
I think anxiety disorders (which I would classify gender dysphoria as) can only get better it you face the cause of the anxiety. Unfortunately, it’s extremely counter-intuitive and horrifically terrifying/upsetting for someone experiencing anxiety and therefore a hard sell for clinicians. Like, “hey want to essentially be tortured for a year? You’ll get over your anxiety quick!” This is deeply unpopular and most people go with 1. Compounding unhealthy coping mechanisms and lifelong and only moderately successful talk therapy. Talk therapy can work but eventually you will need to do some exposure work if you want to not be controlled by your anxiety.
My brother works in the medical industry and he just worked with a doctor whose whole approach revolutionized forearm surgeries. This man’s whole point was that basically a million people have been crippled by forearm surgeries that have 1. No evidence to support their technique 2. Ample evidence and basically intuitive knowledge that they COULDN’T work. His talk was all about doctors creating problems bc they don’t think and question what they’re doing constantly. That is like half of medicine: 50% is wrong, and we don’t know which. I would argue 95-99% of gender medicine is totally wrong and ineffective treatments and methods for gender dysphoria just by thinking it through, without any need for a medical degree. A lot of people who don’t work with doctors or don’t know someone who does don’t seem to understand that doctors are fallible average people, many of whom, whether intelligent or not, don’t know how to think properly, and who are constantly figuring out, experimenting, making shit up and backtracking just like everyone else.
I think anxiety disorders (which I would classify gender dysphoria as) can only get better it you face the cause of the anxiety. Unfortunately, it’s extremely counter-intuitive and horrifically terrifying/upsetting for someone experiencing anxiety and therefore a hard sell for clinicians. Like, “hey want to essentially be tortured for a year? You’ll get over your anxiety quick!” This is deeply unpopular and most people go with 1. Compounding unhealthy coping mechanisms and lifelong and only moderately successful talk therapy. Talk therapy can work but eventually you will need to do some exposure work if you want to not be controlled by your anxiety.
A couple of very good Helen Joyce interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xUrtNW6Fzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZsfk6Ms6s