Well the obvious answer is it's a very specialised technique which was used by Dr Verma so the number of people who could really do it and have the expertise to get the resolution to that level and the funding to do such a technique are a handful of people at best.
What does that say to you?
If the measurements you are talking about are so incredibly subtle that they can only be observed by a single person, have you considered that perhaps it's less that that person is an outstanding megagenius the likes of which the world has never seen, and more that perhaps technology is simply not at the point of being able to reliably make those observations at all, and all you're actually doing here is reading meaning into barely perceptible features which lie at the very at the edge of our capacity to observe them.
It's not like neuroscientists do not have a long and disreputable history of doing just that.
No that's mostly just what he was accused of though not what his research says to do.
While some of the things Zucker has been accused of are questionable, I think you are being at best naive or at worst deliberately obfuscative regarding the actual implications of his approach.
In our clinic, it's always up to the parents to determine what the goal of therapy should be. We recommend that one goal be to help the child feel more secure about his or her actual gender, another to deal with the child's emotional difficulties, and a third to help with problems in the family. It's helpful to have parents set limits on things like cross-dressing, which many parents have not done before coming to us.
It's particularly confusing because that approach is actually completely contradictory to your other beliefs about gender identity and (I presume) sexual orientation. Zucker does not believe that gender identity is innate. He does not believe that trans people are trans from birth, and driven by fundamental neurological differences in their brains. He believes that these things, at least in children, are strongly influenced by a child's experience, in particular their family experiences, and can thus be altered by altering family experiences.
And that's not entirely out of line. Most people who actually work with trans people do not believe that gender identity is wholly innate. What they do not believe is that a therapist or parents cannot or should not try to influence a child's development.
If you don't treat it until 9 or 10, it's much harder to turn around. And beyond age 12 or so, there's a good chance they're on course to become a transsexual as adults.
Again, there is a very fundamental difference in perspective between this parent-centirc approach concerned with promoting normalization, and an affirmative approach offering unconditional support. We have moved away from the former for a reason, because again, fundamentally, it is not sufficiently distinct from the approach taken by people like John Money.
Because John Money was also not a "bad" person. He was sympathetic to the plight of his intersexed patients and thought he could help them. Sadly, thinking you are helping someone (or even being able to convince them that you are) does not always mean you are.
So to be clear you don't like being asked your pronouns because you see even that as somehow offensive?
Do you like people you don't know coming up and asking you to volunteer highly personal information about yourself?
Because in an age where there are no set pronouns and non binary is being said to cover a range of identities and even they don't have set pronouns......... it seems like it would be near impossible to know your pronouns for sure........
Do you need to know for sure?
I don't need to tell you my pronouns. If you ask me, I could easily lie. It would make no difference to me or to who I was if I lied, it would just make me a liar. My pronouns are no more relevant or important than those of all the cis people you assume the gender of every day. That's why the most precious and revered
one joke is a joke, isn't it? Because it's ubiquitous to assume other people's gender and only
crazy people would be offended by it.
So just do it, and let people correct you if they feel you're worth the effort to do so. Do people the courtesy of letting them closet without being liars.
