42.9% of the transgender population examined in the referenced study had psychiatric comorbidities (excluding psychiatric issues related to their gender/ trans identity). This is compared to 7.1% in the non-transgender population.
The NYT interpreted this study through the lens of the minority stress framework. However, it is important to note that the transgender minority group possesses unique psychiatric and medical characteristics. The minority stress framework overlooks these obvious confounders and attributes health disparities experienced by this demographic solely to discrimination and stigma.
This study also demonstrated that the trans population had a significantly higher rate of non-suicide-related deaths, which were nearly double that of the non-transgender population. (Which may be explained by the higher levels of medicalization in this group).
President of HRC, the largest LGBT lobby group behind the push for men in women’s soorts has her argument destroyed by @riley_gaines during a Senate Hearing on women’s sports.
Riley: “Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player.”
The term "cisgender" was coined by a German sexologist who also stated, "The sensuality that spontaneously unfolds between a child and an adult is something wonderful."
Volkmar Sigusch first used the terms "cisgender" and "cissexual" in a 1991 publication titled Transsexuals and our Nosomorphic View.
"Speaking of cissexuals. If there are transsexuals, logically there must be cissexuals. One is not to be thought without the other at all. I have allowed myself to introduce the terms cissexualism, cissexuals, cisgender etc.," Sigusch wrote.
According to Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany, Volkmar Sigusch and his colleague Gunter Schmidt, with whom he published research on child sexuality in the 70's, also argued that exposing children to pornography – a well-known grooming tactic of pedophiles – was completely harmless.
"Volkmar Sigusch and Gunter Schmidt argued provocatively that the representation of sex, per se, did no damage to youth or children, and that the kind of pornography in which sex was 'represented without prejudices as a pleasure-filled social activity … is exactly the kind that one could without worries give to children and adolescents,'" Herzog wrote.
In the late 60’s and early 70’s, German sexologists began to view sexual relations with children as progressive rather than abusive. So pervasive was the cultural trend towards the social liberation of pedophilia that even Germany’s Green Party advocated for the abolition of Paragraph 176 of the German Criminal Code, which criminalized sexual activity with children below the age of 14.
Dr. Joachim Häberlen of the University of Warwick, in his article, "Feeling Like a Child: Dreams and Practices of Sexuality in the West German Alternative Left during the Long 1970s", says:
"In 1970 members of the German parliament charged with reforming criminal law even listened to radical education scholar Helmut Kentler, sexologist Volkmar Sigusch, and other sociologists and psychologists, who declared that children would not suffer from sexual relations with adults and that those relations should not be punished, because they are a 'crime without a victim.'"
https://t.co/MJlr4ylF4q
https://t.co/IDN2H2VTzI
@LudovicoEinaud@Jessica27599282 How much is actually caused by man versus the natural cycle of earth, like the Ice Age? Probably .003%, but it's a great video. And no one should want to breathe polluted air. it's bad for human health.
This letter signed by 70 @oxfamgb staffers deserves reading in full.
They complaint that staff are able to "share and express transphobic views or content with impunity"
(by which they mean gender critical)
Debate is "dehumanising"
Another young - 26 - trans man who mentions having mobility issues and using a cane. She also mentions being treated incorrectly "when I’m in hospital". What 26 year old needs to go to hospital on anything like a regular basis? https://t.co/XVH2dzA4NN