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Yes. Read your own articles....
I'm not a physician or psychologist, I don't have access to the full version of these non-open-access articles; they're outside of my own field.
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psychological functioning for these patients improved with medical intervention, suggesting that “psychiatric symptoms might be secondary to a medical incongruence between mind and body, not primarily psychiatric”
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Suggesting that symptoms
might be secondary" is a far cry from your claim that "symptoms
are - and are
largely - due to..."
And like I've said before: "improving" is a very unspecific term, without putting some concrete numbers to it, it can refer to anything between gigantic improvements and absolutely marginal ones.
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I see you all pivoting to conversations about children, but this argument hasn't focused on that at all, given that it was about whether being transgender is itself a mental illness.
I've already addressed this: no, being transgender is not a mental illness in and off itself - but it frequently comes along with one.