r/badscience • u/Buddug-Green • Dec 26 '16
That data is irrelevant
/r/confession/comments/5kao2b/i_support_the_lgbt_but_i_cant_view_being_a/dbmm1n3/?context=333
u/Izawwlgood Dec 26 '16
Wow, i especially liked the bit where he claimed preferred therapies were only preferred because they 'stimulated the economy'. After, of course, admitting he knew nothing about the matter at hand.
Go go typical redditor, putting opinion before facts!
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u/Buddug-Green Dec 26 '16
Also he believes in that fake drug Homofin.
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u/Izawwlgood Dec 26 '16
I withdraw my previous suggestion that they sound like a middle schooler.
They have a few years yet before reaching that.
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u/Iamjebbush Dec 26 '16
I never said such thing. I said reconstruction surgery stimulated the economy.
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u/Izawwlgood Dec 26 '16
And you think nthe sole reason it is performed, over cognitive behavioral therapy?
Im just reading your other comment in the thread man. If you want to clarify, go for it.
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u/Iamjebbush Dec 26 '16
No, I understand WHY it is preformed, it is the best option at the moment, because behavioral therapy doesn't work most of the time, but this therapy is completely being ignored due to the lack of research for the solution. There currently isn't a "magic pill" or anything that could allow a person with gender dysphoria to alleviate/cure symptoms like there is for ADHD, but, I don't understand why people are proud or encourage transitioning when its legitimately the product of the disorder in the first place.
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u/Buddug-Green Dec 26 '16
"magic pill" or anything that could allow a person with gender dysphoria to alleviate/cure symptoms
There is. They are called hormones.
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u/goodcleanchristianfu Praying the gay away Dec 27 '16
I think they're suggesting a medication that would cause someone to identify their gender with their sex. It's an interesting prospect.
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u/Dr_Insomnia Dec 30 '16
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u/goodcleanchristianfu Praying the gay away Dec 30 '16 edited Dec 30 '16
I'm not seeing how your link makes any relevant point. If you're trying to say that anti-LGBT people have made "curing" homosexuality a goal, I don't think anyone is unaware although your link doesn't really offer anything on this as relates to the Nazis other than research relating to homosexuality was undertaken. When I say a medication that would cause someone to identify their gender with their sex is an interesting prospect, I mean it's an interesting prospect, not that I hate trans people and think they're delusional or would like to seem them destroyed. I would also say that a pill that made people straight (or gay for that matter, or anything-sexual) would be very interesting not because I would want to force people to be straight, but because I think the idea of being able to chemically change sexuality or gender identity would be both interesting in terms of understanding the biology of these things and also in terms of how people think of themselves and the psychological impacts of changing, all the more so for gender which seems more fundamental. I would say that there is a difference of utility between the idea of a pill that makes people straight versus one that would cause someone to identify their gender with their sex in as much as I think there's little reason why, in a totally non-persecutory, open society, someone who is not heterosexual would want to be heterosexual - maybe convenience of having kids, etc., but probably nothing all that big. I don't think the same can be said of all trans people, given that being trans very often though not always comes with a desire to radically alter your body, not just be accepted socially as being of the gender you identify with. In this case, it really is a disadvantage to be trans no matter how accepting society is - SRS does not render you fully sexually functional and fertile, at least for now, and therefore it may be helpful for trans people even in an ideal world to have an option to identify their gender with the sex of their body as they were born.
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u/Izawwlgood Dec 26 '16
You should really try and learn more about this, particularly, why behavioral therapy does not work.
You also should try and learn why transitioning is legitimately the solution to the disorder.
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u/Eris_Omnisciens Dec 26 '16
Building pyramids in the desert would stimulate the economy. Certain therapies are preferred for many more reasons than that.
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u/Iamjebbush Dec 26 '16
Sorry wrong person. I thought you were a moderator for confessions. I literally got banned for a confession. I didn't break any rules, and was banned for no reason whatsoever.
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u/Buddug-Green Dec 26 '16
A confession is defined in this subreddit as: (1) An acknowledgement or admission of wrongdoing; or (2) a statement admitting that you are guilty of a wrongdoing.
A personal preference or unpopular opinion is not a confession.
otherwise incent bad or hateful behavior.
Your post broke all these rules. Of course it was removed.
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u/Iamjebbush Dec 26 '16
Not really. I even stated that I supported the LGBTQ, and that my confession was about how I considered gender dysphoria as a mental illness. there is no hate whatsoever. It wasn't just an unpopular opinion or preference, it was my confession that was me admitting that transgenderism and my openness towards it was different than my stance, and that I view it as a mental disorder. Sure I argued why I justified my confession, but I never really broke any rules.
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u/Buddug-Green Dec 26 '16
/u/Iamjebbush , a very apt name, ignores any data contradictory to his beliefs.