The American Psychological Association and traditional masculinity

[AC2021]

They say it's harmful.

Traditional Masculinity Can Hurt Boys, Say New A.P.A. Guidelines (Published 2019)

Men die earlier than women and commit more acts of violence. But the American Psychological Association did not have a guide for working with males, in part because they were historically considered the norm.

www.nytimes.com

I say the APA has jumped the shark, and should be disregarded from here on out.

Screw those faggits!

And oh by the way, let's not pretend that they haven't changed before because of radical political pressure. The homosexual lobby in the early 70s and those who want to normalize gender dysphoria in recent years

They have no credibility.

 

[Rube Reaper]

But they APA is absolutely right…

 

[Wait What]

But they APA is absolutely right…

You big silly goose!

 

[shiv]

You big silly goose!

Oh man got me good!

 

[ChingChongDingDong]

But they APA is absolutely right…

 

[ChicagoFats]

They say it's harmful.

Traditional Masculinity Can Hurt Boys, Say New A.P.A. Guidelines (Published 2019)

Men die earlier than women and commit more acts of violence. But the American Psychological Association did not have a guide for working with males, in part because they were historically considered the norm.

www.nytimes.com

I say the APA has jumped the shark, and should be disregarded from here on out.

Screw those faggits!

And oh by the way, let's not pretend that they haven't changed before because of radical political pressure. The homosexual lobby in the early 70s and those who want to normalize gender dysphoria in recent years

They have no credibility.

You can put the APA right up there with the CDC as far as credibility goes

 

[Rube Reaper]

You can put the APA right up there with the CDC as far as credibility goes

I agree. The APA is extremely credible just like the CDC.

 

[Jtrain80]

Be much easier to name the government agencies that still have credibility over the ones that don't.

I will start.

Well, I better circle to this one later.

 

[Goldhedge]

It's all about the Benjamines!

“Rapid-onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD):​

Cohort and contagion effects from novel social pressures​

ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
APR 16, 2023

So yesterday, I spent two hours getting thoroughly depressed reading about trans legislation and court actions across the country and around the world. The intent had been to do some sort of summary (pro and against), but…

Frankly, I am having a hard time processing it all. In the end, I feel like there is so much more to just explaining how the world got to this point. Because making sense of this mess is going to require a deep dive into some ugly history.

In 2018, Psychology Today published an article summarizing trans research and what was happening in the culture that is truly shocking. That is, a large minority of kids have developed a belief system whereby they, as a group, espouse that being a normal biological female or male is akin to being immoral and evil. This bizarre concept has spread across social media and has infiltrated even down to elementary schools. This is a set of cultural beliefs which have morphed from groupthink and rebellion on social media to going viral throughout an age cohort which is vulnerable to new concepts being permanently instilled into their mindsets.

Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens?​

A new study of social contagion raises important clinical and ethical questions.​

Psychology Today, 2018

“In general, cis-gendered people are considered evil and unsupportive, regardless of their actual views on the topic. To be heterosexual, comfortable with the gender you were assigned at birth, and non-minority places you in the ‘most evil’ of categories with this group of friends. Statement of opinions by the evil cis-gendered population are consider phobic and discriminatory and are generally discounted as unenlightened.”

Parents further reported being derogatorily called “breeders” by their children, or being routinely harassed by children who played “pronoun-police." The observation that they no longer recognized their child’s voice came up time and again in parental reports. In turn, the eerie similarity between the youth's discourse and trans-positive online content was repeatedly emphasized. Youth were described as “sounding scripted," “reading from a script,” “wooden,” “like a form letter,” “verbatim,” “word for word," or “practically copy and paste."

Littman raises cautions about encouraging young people’s desire to transition in all instances. From the cases reviewed in her study, she concluded that what she terms “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) appears to be a novel condition that emerges from cohort and contagion effects and novel social pressures. From this perspective, ROGD likely exhibits an aetiology and epidemiology that is distinct from the "classical" cases of gender dysphoria documented in the DSM.

Littman hypothesizes that ROGD can be cast as a maladaptive coping mechanism for other underlying mental health issues such as trauma or social maladjustment, but also for other exceptional traits like high IQ and giftedness. The peer support, prestige, and identity leveraged by the youth who proudly come out as trans certainly appears to be protective in their circles. As Littman’s study shows, this social signaling strategy also comes with strong disadvantages, particularly as it increases conflict between trans youth and the "cis" majority of the population, which, tellingly, includes a majority of the LGBT community.

Via the DSM-5, which is the 2013 update of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association, the prevalence rate of gender dysphoria is between 0.005 percent to 0.014 percent for males, and 0.002 percent to 0.003 percent for females.

In 2022, Pew Research puts that rate at 5% of all young adults!

more

“Rapid-onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD):

Cohort and contagion effects from novel social pressures

rwmalonemd.substack.com