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how do we treat sex discordance when it's comorbid with intellectual disability?
pic related is caroline cossey, former model and actress who transitioned in 1971 at age 17 (your move, 1990-chan). her karyotype is xxxy, a sex chromosome aneuploidy that occurs in 1 in 50,000 physiological males. you may have heard of klinefelter's/xxy, which is far more common with a prevalence around 1 in 600. xxy is associated with sex discordance; research on the topic is sparse at best, but anecdata has found far more sex discordant women with an xxy karyotype than in the general male population. though pure extrapolation is rarely accurate, it's reasonable to conclude that this overrepresentation also occurs in xxxy and xxxxy (1 in 85,000).
however, caroline is unusually high-functioning for someone with an xxxy karyotype -- she appears to be in the normal range of intelligence, while xxxy and xxxxy are strongly associated with intellectual disability. part of this can be explained away by the fact that intellectually normal people are rarely karyotyped, but from what we know about intelligence in xxy we know it's at least reduced in that population. therefore, there is a small but meaningful population where sex discordance and intellectual disability will often be comorbid.
the problem is most people believe those conditions could not possibly be comorbid, because not only do most people fail to recognize sex discordance as the disability it is (instead claiming it to be a choice, fashion statement, etc) they tend to freak the fuck out when it's being treated in anyone but an abled adult. people are...let's kindly say 'hesitant' to allow sex discordant minors to transition, and abled people tend to think intellectually disabled people are 'permanent children'.
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>>7054475
though there are genuine issues involved in transitioning dysphoric children, these issues are endocrinological, not mental. most dysphoric children desist at the beginning of puberty. but by the time puberty is in full swing, dysphoria is permanent and has progressed to sex discordance. diminished capacity does not change that.
how should the transition of someone with diminished capacity be managed? forcing someone who's already at a high risk of adverse psychological events to live in a body that's destroying their life is obviously inhumane and should not be done, but the wishes of intellectually disabled people are routinely disregarded and an attempt at treating sex discordance in someone with comorbid intellectual disability may face social and legal barriers.
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>>7054475
..what are you asking?
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>>7054980
Shitpostorino. Why are you so eager to answer what is obviously the doo doo?
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interdasting
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>>7054986
I like to make fun of retards :(
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>>7054475
>most dysphoric children desist at the beginning of puberty
This meem needs to die.
The studies that presented this trend used a very broad definition of "gender variance" that did not include "gender dysphoria". Children who experience intense dysphoria and strong cross-gender identification at a young age rarely desist.
t. angry tranny guy
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>>7054491
>Ayyydin
>Skylar
You cannot make this shit up.
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>>7055075
>The studies that presented this trend used a very broad definition of "gender variance" that did not include "gender dysphoria"
Actually I should amend that. Their selection criteria did include gender dysphoria, however it wasn't a necessary for participation.
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>>7055082
It didn't lend any more weight to having gender dysphoria than, say, just trying to be a smart ass. It treated both as being equally valid evidence that the child is trans. Because cis children are never smart asses.
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>>7055075
Not true, you AGP transtrender faggot
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>>7055075
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/the-end-of-the-desistance_b_8903690.html
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