Has anyone here who is fully limbed experienced a phantom limb?
That's an example of the body not matching the make-up of the brain.
Are you able to experience it?
Inversely, people suffering from Body integrity identity disorder feel as if they have an extra limb and would be happier if it was amputated. Can we actually understand how that feels if we are not afflicted that way ourselves? Not without a great amount of difficulty. That's because our brains match our bodies. With trangendered people it does nt. So when people say that they don't feel either male or female, what they are actually saying is that they are not transgendered.
So rather than just dismiss what the child is going through based on a lack of personal understanding, let's have some acknowledgement that gender dysphoria is a genuine medical problem that has been studied for many decades by an often hostile medical establishment which has eventually come to the conclusion that the only way to treat the condition is the way that they are currently treating this child.
Unless you want to claim that your own personal feelings should carry more weight than a body of evidence obtained using the scientific method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integr...y_disorder
That's an example of the body not matching the make-up of the brain.
Are you able to experience it?
Inversely, people suffering from Body integrity identity disorder feel as if they have an extra limb and would be happier if it was amputated. Can we actually understand how that feels if we are not afflicted that way ourselves? Not without a great amount of difficulty. That's because our brains match our bodies. With trangendered people it does nt. So when people say that they don't feel either male or female, what they are actually saying is that they are not transgendered.
So rather than just dismiss what the child is going through based on a lack of personal understanding, let's have some acknowledgement that gender dysphoria is a genuine medical problem that has been studied for many decades by an often hostile medical establishment which has eventually come to the conclusion that the only way to treat the condition is the way that they are currently treating this child.
Unless you want to claim that your own personal feelings should carry more weight than a body of evidence obtained using the scientific method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integr...y_disorder
