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CW: barely disguised transphobia
"friendly neighborhood transhumanist liberal" asks why bans on "conversion therapy" for trans folks are being enacted without looking at the science, which they're surprised is non-existent
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J4Lnxi3uJhR8GiGsm/how-are-there-0-studies-maybe-1-on-sex-concordant-hormone
Why do these people always want to give trans people the wrong hormones? It keeps coming up.
The "evidence" he has provided up to this point:
Quite the nerve holding actual science to an impossible standard while his position is just vibes. None of his(?) evidence even mentions taking cross-gender hormones. If anything the tweet is weak evidence against his position.
Imagine writing so many words about transgender healthcare while being this oblivious to how politicized the UK policy documents are.
Anyway after making it to the end that was a lot of words to say he couldn't find any evidence for the position he wanted to be true holy smokes. His weird hang up on "crystallized" gender identity is bizarre. He seems to be hoping that there are people toying with changing gender and it's not too late to "save" them via conversion therapy before it's too late. We
“Hey listen, I’ve been listening to these gender critical feminists and I think they might have a point. Check this out, what if we used psychiatry and hormone therapy to enforce traditional gender roles and normatively gendered bodies, but without creating trans people?”
The poster deftly doesn't address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?
This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Gender-affirming care? Why of course! I am all for forcefully affirming your assigned gender!