We the People of Johnson County Missouri, Saturday, July 8, 2023 🎓 Some Wise Words on Gender Dysphoria

Hi Folks,

I heard this twitter post from Dr. Stephen Levine a psychiatrist of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio, talking about “gender dysphoria” in minors. It’s a remarkably sane interview from an experienced psychiatric practitioner. Thank You, God.

Stephen Barrett Levine (born 1942) is an American psychiatrist known for his work in human sexuality, particularly sexual dysfunction and transsexualism.

It’s about 16 1/2 minutes long, so would be a good coffee break listen. I’ll bullet some of his main points, but it is worth a listen.

• He diagnosed his first case of “gender dysphoria” (GD) in July 1973.

• In 1974 Dr. Levine founded Case Western Reserve University Gender Identity Clinic.

• To our current knowledge, there is no physical or brain dysfunction in these people.

• In children, GD becomes a problem noted by parents or teachers, who pass the problem to the child, not the other way around.

• When the child does have a problem with GD, it generally stems from a limited concept of what it means to be a male or female. As the child ages, he or she realizes being male or female can have a huge range of thought processes, activities, ideas, skills, likes or dislikes, and GD goes away.

• Eleven studies that followed children from age up to 10 years onward through puberty found that 60% - 90% of those having gender dysphoria grew out of it after puberty.

• To claim a child who has not yet passed through puberty has GD, is not consistent with established childhood developmental levels. (Duh.)

• “Confirming” a child of one gender, who thinks he or she is the opposite gender, is not “affirming” the child, but rather confusing the child. Levine brings up the point that having to actually state this out loud is preposterous due to the totally obvious nature of the statement. (Double-Duh.)

• The only psychiatric disorder treated by surgery, other than gender dysphoria, included lobotomies which are no longer done due to the irreversible damage done to the patient. This truth holds true for gender dysphoria surgeries and hormone administration.

• Surgically changing a child’s gender is permanently locking that child into an adulthood in which he or she may desperately wish it had never happened.

• Such surgeries and hormone therapy usually causes sterility in adulthood. There is no going back.

• It’s true that people with GD have higher rates of suicide, but this is both BEFORE and AFTER gender transition. These people have a high suicide risk due to their mental state.

• One study showed that people who had surgery for GD had a suicide rate 19 times that of the general population.

• Most children who experience GD have one or more parents who also have suffered from this emotional disorder, and who encourage the child to question his or her sexual identity. As such, the child feels pressure from parents to experience GD.

Very sane information.

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