Water Dog wrote:The brain isn't confused about the body, this person is simply saying words to that effect. The brain is autonomously managing all sorts of data that we're not consciously aware of. No inherent reason? Is this a joke?!? Billions of examples of humans who's expressed mental state matches with the gender of their physical body. Without compelling scientific evidence to challenge what is well established common sense, it would be nothing short of idiotic and irresponsible to operate under the assumptions you are.
I would ask for references to support this statement, but you've made it clear in previous similar threads that you don't base opinions like this on actual knowledge, evidence or scientific research. Your assumptions about "well established common sense" are similarly insupportable.
EAllusion's comments about this, on the other hand, are very strongly supported:
[E]very major medical and mental health organization has issued position statements supporting the necessity and efficacy of affirming care for transgender people. None of them have signed off on a model of rejecting identities.
Indeed, World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), the foremost body of experts on transgender health in the world, has this to say about what Mayer and McHugh propose:
“Treatment aimed at trying to change a person’s gender identity and expression to become more congruent with sex assigned at birth has been attempted in the past without success (Gelder & Marks, 1969; Greenson, 1964), particularly in the long term (Cohen-Kettenis & Kuiper, 1984; Pauly, 1965). Such treatment is no longer considered ethical.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deb ... 33072b36a4
Water Dog wrote:I see no credible reason to assume that a person who believes they are a dog is any less "crazy" than a man (like the OP) who believes he's a woman. You speculate he might have a female brain in a male body. You have no evidence for that, and the preponderance of evidence laughs at these silly assumptions. We can speculate anything. Maybe aliens abducted him and performed experiments on him. You can't prove that's not true. The reasonable assumption is that this person is just deranged.
The only reference you posted that supports this position has been thoroughly discredited. Do you have anything to support your statement that "the reasonable assumption...that this person is just deranged"? Even making a cogent argument would be a start, rather than unsupported assertions like this.
As your opinions seem mostly informed by your one source, another comment about that is in order:
Dean Hamer, PhD, who is scientist emeritus at the National Institutes of Health, took a scalpel to Mayer and McHugh’s claims in a scathing review titled
"New 'Scientific' Study on Sexuality, Gender Is Neither New nor Science."Hamer did not mince words in his article, writing in conclusion:
"When the data we have struggled so long and hard to collect is twisted and misinterpreted by people who call themselves scientists, and who receive the benefits and protection of a mainstream institution such as John Hopkins Medical School, it disgusts me."
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/ ... rt-n641501