The Medical Science Case for Trans Accommodation

simply about making people's lives easier, so that they get to enjoy a more equal level of opportunity in society, and that their abilities do not get wasted. Nothing about accommodating trans people in everyday life makes us unable to acknowledge the reality of biological sex when it truly matters. Using a trans woman's preferred pronouns doesn't mean we can't acknowledge that she doesn't have periods and can't get pregnant, or that her medical needs are sometimes very different from genetic women, for example. It also wouldn't mean allowing a trans woman license to do whatever they like, regardless of the discomfort of genetic women. Since the fact that society accommodates trans people is based on the grounds of compassion and respect, it would be more than reasonable to expect trans people to repay others with the same compassion and respect. Which would obviously include not doing anything to make other people extremely uncomfortable!

The Medical Science Case for Trans Accommodation

At this point, some people may argue that it is not good to indulge in a trans person's 'delusion', as if gender dysphoria is a form of psychosis akin to schizophrenia. This argument has been popularized by a few conservative media personalities, all of whom have no medical education or training. However, it is already well established in medical science and psychiatry that gender dysphoria is not a form of psychosis, and that there often is no effective 'treatment' other than the symptomatic treatment of gender transition. The clinical

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evidence for this is clear, and is based on decades of clinical experience with a large population of patients with gender dysphoria. Furthermore, while gender transition does not actually change the genetic sex of a trans person, it is akin to symptomatic treatment to relieve the suffering of patients when a curative treatment is not available. Symptomatic treatment is a very legitimate and very important part of clinical medicine. To say that symptomatic treatment is akin to 'cooperating with delusion' is ridiculous.

Another way to look at this is, where a set of clinical symptoms is repeatedly described in the general population, a clinical syndrome is described and formalized in clinical practice, even if the exact etiology is not yet known. This is how the syndrome of 'gender dysphoria' has come to be an accepted diagnosis in clinical medicine. The fact that this syndrome has been repeatedly described and diagnosed in a consistent way throughout different times and different places is what proves that it is a 'real thing' rather than the delusional thinking of certain individuals, or a 'fashion of the day' identity. Furthermore, the fact that gender dysphoria is clearly a constant natural occurrence also supports the case for society to make reasonable accommodations for its existence.

A few people may further argue that the views of the medical establishment have been affected by the activism of radical activists. But this represents a lack of understanding of how medical science and clinical medicine work at the very least,

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