rypry said:
Correct. Because of states where evidenced-based, gender-affirming care is being obstructed, the APA adopted a policy for their commitment to the well-being of all people. So, to review, conversion therapy is bad and dismissed by professionals and gender of affirming care is good and supported by professionals.
There is literally no such thing as gender affirming care. You can't affirm someone's mental illness.
You would never in a million years affirm someone with DID by saying "your delusions are real and the other people you think you are definitely exist".
You would never affirm an anorexic by saying "you're right, you should lose weight".
The current state whereby we pretend men can be women and vice versa is absurd. It's unconscionable that the first course of action for gender dysphoria isn't intense counseling for an obvious mental health crisis.
You can be transgender, that's ok, you're still valid as person…the same way someone struggling with severe depression or dementia is still a person. You may be more comfortable in women's clothes than men's and that's ok. You may get sexual pleasure from taking on a different gender role and that's ok. But you will never, ever be a woman if you were born a man…no matter how many body parts you remove.