(Aug 6, 2025 04:14 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ](Feb 7, 2025 07:58 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]In the DSM, gender dysphoria is a psychiatric condition. While we probably should feel compassion for them, there's no need for everyone to believe that their delusions are reality.
https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/...report.pdf
But even without the May 2025 publication date, it would be obvious that this is not a Biden-era product...
"While sex-role nonconformity itself is not pathological and does not require treatment, the use of pharmacological and surgical interventions as treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria has been called 'medically necessary' and even 'lifesaving'.'"
... because the usual veneration toward the above “gender-affirming" model approach to GD is missing. Previously, the following doubts or cautions would not have been cast on such. It was full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes (long-term consequences).For instance, unlike this document, there would have been little significance attached to many GD children having other "psychiatric or neurodevelopmental conditions" (like autism).
And no heavy mention of the diagnosis being "based entirely on subjective self-reports and behavioral observations, without any objective physical, imaging, or laboratory markers". Especially no concern over that diagnosis "centering on attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that are known to fluctuate during adolescence."
And the following acknowledgements would have been especially treasonous during that former era:
The 'gender-affirming' model of care, as practiced in U.S. clinics, is characterized by a child-led process in which comprehensive mental health assessments are often minimized or omitted, and the patient’s 'embodiment goals' serve as the primary guide for treatment decisions. In some of the nation’s leading pediatric gender clinics, assessments are conducted in a single session lasting two hours.
And good gosh, there certainly wouldn't be reference to GD dissipating in some children over time, or that carrying any importance. Because back then, the experts went by the great wisdom of the child that their preference was a life-long desire that would never abate or be regretted years later."Additionally, the natural history of pediatric gender dysphoria is poorly understood, though existing research suggests it will remit without intervention in most cases. Medical professionals have no way to know which patients may continue to experience gender dysphoria and which will come to terms with their bodies."
Due to the remission of GD not being 100% with every patient, they can't abandon the gender-affirming approach. But again, what's glaring here is the lack of devout reverence (ilike n the past) for gender-affirming treatment being the #1 route or sole option.