This, of course, is no secret to us. The chief physician of Charing Cross, for example, will happily talk about these numbers. The number of referrals to trans care doubles about every five years, with no sign of slowing down.

They aren’t elective. Transition is lifesaving treatment according to all research - see the position statements on trans care of the APA, BMA, BPS, WPATH, WHO. Not all transition is surgical, but the ones that are would be at risk of death without it.

Easy rule of thumb - trans people are what they intend to be. So a trans woman is a woman, but was given a different gender at birth. Same with the surgery - you have a vaginoplasty in order to have a vagina.

Yes. It hasn’t been considered a mental illness in British treatment for a few years now, since the DSM-V was published. The British medical staff follow the APA position, which is (summarised) that the condition of having a trans identity is not a mental illness, but that trans people face significant exclusion and…

Silly. Actually the earnings of untreated trans people are so much lower that the tax they pay into the NHS AFTER treatment more than covers the treatment (which is not that expensive anyway).

Actually, none of the early stages of it are permanent.

Banning guns in England MASSIVELY REDUCED the number of gun deaths.

This is like asking “who initiates sex, men or women”, or “who goes on top during sex”? It’s a very broad practice. This fetish has lots of different like, modes - including large numbers of people who don’t use their diapers, it seems? Research is fairly scarce but anecdotal reports suggest it’s as variable as any…

...i think u might be missing the point of the fetish if you think stuff that is "for adults" in general us going to be an acceptable substitute!

No at all. I simply thought you might find the psychological facts interesting or relevant. I don't assume you're confused - i assume you're uncomfortable, which is a changeable state, and aren't sure why, which you said.

Do you? Because I can’t see why you would find using the term from the DSM-V for reasons of clinical precision at all disgusting. There are many colloquial terms, mostly with some overlap, so I thought I would be careful to be specific.

The paraphilia here is quite different to pedophilic disorder if that helps, iirc - pedophilic disorder tends to fetishise and sexualise children and young people’s things because they belong to young people, whereas this fetish rarely involves people at all? As in, these people tend to fetishise childish things in…

I imagine trying to drink adult portions out of baby-sized sippy cups gets tedious?

Oh and Cutler and Scott 1990 might be interesting, paper called “speaker sex and perceived apportionment of talk” - basically, people massively overestimate how much women talk in a conversation.

Geena Davis Institute, based on a study of films, but also happens to be potentially broadly applicable, in that gender split of surgeons, congressional representatives etc is about this number.

Hot take: u can't "mistake" something for art, it's viewer-defined

And yet she's a trained expert in what will help matters. How many cases has your opinion won?

Do you think his courtroom fetish started before or after he became a judge?

Counterpoint: every trans woman I know would kill for the chance to have been taught - so we could describe what was going on much, much earlier.

Guys mentioning his name and a famous goddamn artefact of the resurrection of Christ in the article preview is a spoiler.