We don't have any disagreement on the bolded. The problem is that the new era of help is counter to science and standards of mental health. It's become a social experiment not tied to medical or biological reality. Gender dysphoria is similar to dissociative disorders, and was treated through similar methods until the bizarre social experiment turn that removed it as a mental illness. Now the pathology is to "affirm" the delusion in irreparable ways that include chemical and physical alteration of the human body. Sex change procedures used to be extremely rare for adult men and women.Porteroso said:
There is certainly a lot of unwarranted outrage over ads like this. Personally it's a little disgusting, it bewilders me, and I will probably avoid Calvin Klein products from now on, but some of you take it far beyond that. I also think this woman mutilated her body, but I can't be certain that he/she/they isn't happy. This is adults exercising freedoms. Not an opportunity to trash people.
It is easy for disgust to turn into hate, and that leads to problems. It sort of justifies the trans lifestyle in these people's minds. In some weird way. I think it's good to talk of the harm mutilating one's body can bring, but we can do that while still respecting these human beings. Someone trying to change genders doesn't need hate, they need help.
As a parallel, Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personality) isn't treated by "affirming" the alternate identities, but is treated through psychotherapy, medication, and coping mechanisms that help minimize the disruptive aspects of the mental illness. That's how it was done before with gender dysphoria until we worried more about stigma than science, and more frightening is going away from a mental disorder to a "self realized" lifestyle choice with long term mental and physical repercussions.
