Decrease is a symptom of the thing decreased
Market creation. First they say that gender dysphoria isn’t a mental health condition and then they say that mental health conditions and neuro-diversity are signs of being transgender. Then they teach gender ideology in schools and target ads to children on Youtube.
So gender dysphoria “may present” as depression, anxiety, doing badly in school, family quarrels, frustration, anger, not dating, feeling guilty or lonely or like a loser, sadness, anhedonia, diagnosis of borderline personality disorder or autism among other items, and feelings of decreased gender dysphoria.
So, basically, everything.
I suspect that last one is a misprint for “increased” gender dysphoria. Someone screwed up the slide.
This could be a list of the Signs of Depression. It also reminds me a bit of those pseudoscientific “could you be repressing memories of child abuse?” tests several decades ago. It’s left off “weight gain,” though.
Why is there a left quote mark/grave accent in “depersonal`ization”?
“Are you experiencing little or no gender dysphoria? You might have gender dysphoria. Talk with your doctor today.”
Colin Day – Because that’s the woke way to write “depersonalization,” just as it’s a grave solecism to say “transwomen” instead of “trans women.” Decent people experience depersonali’zation; only TERFs think it’s “depersonalization.”
Fascinating how backwards this is. You could just about fix the slide by changing its title:
Possible Root Causes of Gender Dysphoria Symptoms
Looks like they forgot autism… way to not be inclusive.
BKiSA, right column, fifth from bottom. They missed Asperger’s, though.
Asperger’s isn’t in the DSM anymore, Acolyte. It’s either autism or semantic pragmatic disorder now.
Semantic pragmatic disorder is now called social communication disorder. It’s classed as part of the Asperger spectrum than replacing it as a term.
Oops… Guess I was subconsciously looking for Asperger’s…
They’ve invalidated my existence and violenced me!!!!
Sastra
Nope. I remember when this story came out. IIRC the slide was from a presentation by the Los Angeles Gender Center, whose head is Aydin Olson-Kennedy, partner of Johanna Olson-Kennedy of Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles–she who has referred 13 year-olds for double mastectomies and said “if they want breasts later, they can go buy them.”
The point was that if a kid’s gender dysphoria decreased, or they expressed uncertainty, well that could also be a symptom of gender dysphoria.
Did you see today’s article in the New Yorker by Masha Gessen about trans rigts and the Supreme Court?
I greatly admire her writing about Russian politics and gay rights, but I think she’s very wrong about bathrooms and trans rights.
And yet she’s doing exactly that — not covering this issue in a fair and balanced manner.
She identifies as non-binary (like so many butch lesbians do these days), so she sees the whole debate in terms of her ability to feel comfortable using a men’s washroom despite her having been “assigned” (ugh) female at birth.
For all her defense of trans people’s right to use the washroom of their choice, she didnt even try to define who exactly counts as a genuine trans person, how gender non-conforming a man has to be in order to be permitted to use a women’s washroom, or what mechanism we could use in practice and in law to distinguish men from transwomen, since trans is not the same as gender-non-conforming: trans is just a feeling and not something you can see, and many men who claim the label aren’t all that gender non-conforming at all.
Masha Gessen may look and dress in a way that’s perceived as more male than female, and Laverne Cox may look for all intents and purposes like a biological female, but following right behind her through the door to the women’s loo are six hulking middle-aged men with an erotic fetish for penetrating into women’s private spaces.
See, gender dysphoria isn’t a mental health condition—it’s all the mental health conditions.
Re #12
I had not seen that article; wow, what a mess.
I enjoyed this article by Jo Bartosch at Uncommon Ground; an unabashedly feminist perspective. Very well done.
http://uncommongroundmedia.com/how-a-skirt-in-a-funeral-home-in-detroit-threatens-civil-rights/
“Are you a normal person experiencing the usual ups and downs of being human? You might have gender dysphoria!”
Jesus christ, especially grief.
“Did your grandmother die recently? You might have gender dysphoria!”
Acolyte, social communication disorder (aka semantic pragmatic disorder, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, and also Pragmatic Language Disorder) and autism spectrum disorder are exclusive in the DSM-V.
Aspergers was eliminated as a stand-alone diagnosis, and is now incorporated into the same diagnosis as autism spectrum disorder. Pervasive developmental disorder – not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and autistic disorder were also eliminated as diagnoses, all three replaced by autism spectrum disorder. Autism spectrum disorder and Social (pragmatic) communication disorder are mutually exclusive diagnoses: if you have ASD, you cannot also be diagnosed with SCD. ASD must be ruled out before an SCD diagnosis can be given.
Which is to say, one can no longer be diagnosed with Asperger’s at all, and one cannot be diagnosed with both Asperger’s or ASD as well as SCD. Either ASD or SCD. The main difference is restricted interests and repetitive behavior being present in ASD and absent in SCD.
https://jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1866-1955-6-41
The over-representation of autistic individuals amongst those falling for the transgender cult has been noted. I wonder if those with SCD are also over-represented.
#14 Sackbut,
Thanks for the link; that’s a good article. (I’m not really familiar with that website, Uncommon Ground, but I was heartened to see Leo Igwe has a recent piece up over there.)
Yeah, the New Yorker piece is quite a mess, and I’m quite unhappy with Masha Gessen’s disingenuousness.
Like this:
Good grief, the New Yorker doesn’t believe that sex is binary? Get the hell outta here. Or this:
Bullshit. This case is about changing the definition of “woman” from biological fact to self-declaration. And Gessen knows it. She just doesn’t care. Because she doesn’t seem to believe men in general can be a danger to women, and that there are, in actual fact, many circumstances in which one’s sex is a “meaningful category.”
Our presence; actual trans people. Who is “us”? Which males are “actual” trans people again? She herself doesn’t even identify as trans; she’s just a very masculine-presenting woman who seems to identify only as “not a man.” Doesn’t she see that the “trans” label has no restrictions on who can use it? And unlike other minority labels — gay, Jewish, disabled — the “trans” label comes with a particularly appealing set of benefits to potential abusers: it can give predatory males access to women and children.
You wouldn’t even make your Wi-Fi password public; why the hell do you think it’s fine to hand over the keys to the women’s bathroom/locker room/communal shower/summer camp cabin/crisis shelter to anyone who wants them?
(Apologies for derailing the thread; I would have posted this in the Miscellany place but I can’t find it!)
Here’s the Miscellany Room:
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2019/miscellany-room-4/
But I don’t consider the thread derailed.
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I am struck by how inescapably misogynistic the transgender project is. Wanting to define “women” as not really existing, or as being a club anybody can join by wishing to, isn’t a post-equality project. It’s a furtherance of inequality.
People become trans only insofar as they can’t accept the co-existence of femininity with masculinity in themselves. Whether male or female, we all have aspects that are more feminine and aspects that are more masculine. Refusing to accept this complexity of our human nature is regressive, and predicated on sexism that demeans the feminine. Transgenderism then becomes a project that seeks to destroy the category of women, to deny women a place in this world.
Men: You women should stay in your place.
Women: We have a nice place now. Women only!
Men: You have to let me in that place. I’m a woman too.
Women: No you’re not. You’re a man.
Men: TERF! Women don’t really exist.
The list is amazingly similar to the self-diagnostic checklists for ‘repressed memories’ of Satanic abuse that were circulating back in the 80s.
In essence, being a carbon-based life form was considered a symptom of Ritual Abuse.
Yes, the “suppressed memories” / Satanic abuse thing has lots of echoes with the trans bullshit.