tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post2557566783863212716..comments2024-03-28T09:56:55.877+01:00Comments on Sue's news and views: Kids are merely imagining they are trans, says the psychiatristSue Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14881573928883759984noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post-39128881588687357752022-07-22T15:24:36.517+02:002022-07-22T15:24:36.517+02:00Hi Nikki, I'm glad you got through the barrier...Hi Nikki, I'm glad you got through the barriers. I would be very interested to know more about links between ecology and transgenderism. I have always felt that biology was the explanation for our experience, not psychology, society, upbringing or any human factor, but do not have enough evidence, merely tantalising gobbets. Sue xSue Richmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14881573928883759984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post-5629282388121147292022-07-22T11:02:11.499+02:002022-07-22T11:02:11.499+02:00Hi Sue,
thanks for the links - they worked!
As f...Hi Sue,<br /> thanks for the links - they worked!<br /><br />As for Jung, it is about 15 years since I first considered his approach to the human condition to take us way beyond that of Freud (part of whose psychopathological approach is still used by psychiatrists). As someone grounded in evolutionary ecology, it is important for me to be able correlate any psychological musing with that ... starting with genes! I'll try and put some thoughts down in my blog.<br />Nikki<br />xxxNikki Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04071821079468074274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post-58709950870508277842022-07-22T08:49:37.617+02:002022-07-22T08:49:37.617+02:00Thanks, Nikki.
I'm afraid I know very little...Thanks, Nikki. <br /><br />I'm afraid I know very little about schools of psychology. I get the impression that in the early days of Freud, Jung and so forth, psychology was a very inexact science. I'm not sure how seriously those pioneers are taken now, but I also get the impression there are trends in psychology that come and go like any other fashion. It was my friend's seeming lack of awareness of physical factors in development such as hormones and genes that particularly bothered me as they clearly play a role in sex/gender development. <br /><br />Thank you for the explanation of the conflation he might be suggesting. I got the impression he thought that I'm still playing childhood games.<br /><br />I'm sorry you couldn't open the PDF. The study is available on research sites, of course, but you have to sign up and download, whereas in the source I picked it is already open to view. Try this link: https://journaldatabase.info/articles/transgender_children_more_than.html ; or this one: https://www.academia.edu/1455407/Transgender_children_more_than_a_theoretical_challenge <br /><br />Sue x<br />Sue Richmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14881573928883759984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post-15594892889344743952022-07-21T14:29:38.493+02:002022-07-21T14:29:38.493+02:00That must have been a fascinating chat with the sk...That must have been a fascinating chat with the skink (LOL!) I can only imagine your friend covers a totally separate field of psychiatry to hold such views on child development.<br /><br />Regarding ages ... puberty, and the development of sexual awareness, tends to be initiated in the brain in the late 0's, and that, surely, must be a driver in sexual preference, whereas gender awareness can be in the early 0's ... certainly I knew I wanted a dress when I was four.<br /><br />I tend to follow a pseudo-Jungian approach to how our minds (and those of animals) comprehend the world we live in and the conflation your friend suggests is (to my mind) what happens when, for us, the anima (our feminine contra-masculine archetype) and the masculine archetype find internal resolution. In a simplistic TG case, it seems the anima wins out as dominant archetype partner in the psyche and directs our individuation.The real problem is that during the time, possibly a lifetime, for that to happen, our personas have become fixed in the eyes of others. Blah, blah, blah ... (always a necessary riposte to my ideas!)<br /><br />Oh, I'm due my pills!!!<br /><br />Nikki<br />xxx<br /><br />PS I was 'not allowed' to open the pdf for the Kennedy/Hellen study ... possibly as it's a link from a blog and nanny Firefox didn't like it.Nikki Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04071821079468074274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post-14564762994736561592022-07-20T18:17:11.581+02:002022-07-20T18:17:11.581+02:00Your skink joke might well win you the prestigious...Your skink joke might well win you the prestigious Sue's News and Views' Comment of the Year. You're a stand-up chameleon all right.<br /><br />I suspect the LGBQ programme was focusing on gay people and I suspect you'd feel you were gay somewhat later in development than you would feel trans, once you'd started considering the possibility of attraction. Prior to age 8 I get the impression that most kids, even the straights - especially the straights! - think the opposite sex is stupid! <br /><br />People do like simple answers so saying if it's not A it must be B is desperately simplistic but actually how most people respond to many things. A nuanced gender continuum is more the reality we know but try getting that across when people are unaware and unsure of trans folk and most trans folk are too scared to come out.<br /><br />Sue xSue Richmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14881573928883759984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182477363609341716.post-27080964595366012372022-07-18T19:08:59.505+02:002022-07-18T19:08:59.505+02:00Shrink or skink? 🙂
"But if this is a game, ...Shrink or skink? 🙂<br /><br />"But if this is a game, then I've been playing it for 50 years!"<br /><br />It's clearly just a phase, Sue. Starting when you were going and following you throughout your adult life. 😉<br /><br />FWIW, I remember watching a programme about LGBQ people and when they knew who they were. Most mentioned it was eight through to twelve years. Although some were earlier, there were some older folk too.<br /><br />If that story applies to T folk as well, and research would find that out, perhaps society needs to come to terms that not everyone is A or B, with A liking B, and vice versa.Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.com