Q3 & 4: Medical Requirements: Gender ‘Dysphoria’ — Maybe the medico-legal terminology is the problem not the requirement itself?

Pomgolian
Pomgolian
Sep 8, 2018 · 5 min read

Questions 1 and 2 tell me my opinion & feelings about those matters were not relevant, finally a question that does seem to anticipate I might answer it! Since they both involve the ‘medical’, I have put them together for logical sense.

Gender ‘dysphoria’ — Gender Recognition is the subject of legal change, laws are written with words, and thus words and definitions matter. Bio-logical sex is a fact of medical determination according to a fairly reliable diagnostic observation (not assignment) at birth, gender is applied according to gender stereotypes — clothing, mannerisms.

Easy-Read document ‘Transgender’: starts with an objectively untrue statement

An objectively untrue statement by a government department about existing legal mechanisms as the 1st statement of one of two Easy-Read ‘Transgender’ documents, lays the consultation open to the charge of bias. Gender is a social construct that has been applied by virtue of (bio-logical) sex but this lesbian (female homosexual) has been resisting Gender stereotypes since the age of 4 in 1969. Merging/conflating the concepts and ‘protected characteristics of i) bio-logical sex applicable to the whole human race and ii) gender identity/expression applicable to 1% (maximum 2% population) creates a conflict of interest given that the primary weapon of violence against females is involved with fewer than 10 surgeons in the UK capable of conversion of male genitalia.

Requirement for diagnosis of ‘Gender Dysphoria’

I think ‘Gender dysphoria’ is the wrong term, and as someone who has two conditions to which the medical profession feels the need to attach ‘disorder’ I do think the dysphoria element is insulting just as it is insulting to call Post Traumatic Stress a disorder when it is a known human reaction to trauma. wrt Rape-related &#MeToo related Post Traumatic Stress, the ‘disorder’ is the very disordered and irrational way society behaves wrt rape and sexual violence and abuse. My #MeToo was in 1998, wrt pointing out the statistical incidence of children in the school population who had already been subjected to rape and sexual abuse and how the teaching profession might want not to worsen their suffering. That is sensible not disordered. The disorder is in the ‘cognitive dissonance’ in these reactions not the person who points out the statistics consistent with my teacher training c1992. I can also be described as ‘autistic’ ie having alternate brain configuration of what has been known as ‘High Functioning Aspergers’ which again the medical profession seem to feel the need to describe as part of the range of ‘Autistic Spectrum Disorder’.

Yes ‘dysphoria is insulting’ I quite agree.

Are we not inheritors of the rich English language, which is capable of description without ‘disordering’. This is about medico-legal language and a medical profession based on concept of disorder in patient for the clinician to address. Yet, could we not use the term ‘Gender variant’ or ‘Gender incongruence’ as simply descriptive terms.

What I am clear is that ‘gatekeepers’ are necessary for such a process and since doctors are involved (or should be) in various measures used to achieve an alternate Gender Expression. Is it not logical for them to be the gatekeepers.

A government department is suggested, given the howling errors they seem to be capable of. i) I warned the UK Home Office of the exact mechanism which would enable sexual predators to evade detection and called them, 4 months before Soham became synonymous with the worst kind of evil perpetrated against female children. ii) Transgender inmate admits Wakefield jail sex offences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-45436953 plenty of reassurance that the Ministry of Justice had stringent systems were in place and that such fears were groundless and even transphobic. However, Self ID means Self ID by the unscrupulous and there does need to be a trusted gatekeeper, and fewer professions more trusted than the medical profession.

I can’t remember where I saw it but a very real question for doctors, I am not raising this as my own imaginings but have seen this but don’t have the link. Would a doctor who believed that a patient was trying to achieve a change in Gender Expression, really be obliged to prescribe according to the request of the patient, when the doctor sincerely believed that harm would result. A doctor is not only there for the patient in front of them but has the wider good to consider. It runs parallel to the argument about antibiotics. A GP ought to be balancing the ‘good’ of giving them to patients who don’t need them for the illusion that it makes them feel better against the development of antibiotic resistant strains of virus, which even Dr Alexander Fleming warned of when he discovered them. [My GP mother drilled into me that I had been born within a 100 yards of that discovery.]

Question 4: Treatment Report

Yes, I believe that any relevant medical treatment should be part of a legal process in determining those who are genuinely trans either transsexual or transgender and those who fall into the category of trans-fetishists or even trans-predator or those subject simply to a fashionable social contagion. As I advise young people, if an important thing like starting a sexual relationship, is right, a good test that it is right is if it is right in 6 weeks or 6 months. Matters involving surgery and permanent sterility, would I suggest be sensibly subjected to a period of earnest and fully supported consideration. A 25 year old who turned up asking for sterilisation on the NHS would be given very short shrift.

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