Hey Todd - here's something that I've long been wondering. It's a controversial idea, but I'm trusting you and your audience to recognize that I'm coming from a place of genuine curiosity.
What if a portion of the MTF transgender interventions are due to individuals (young and old) feeling incapable of meeting manhood standards? Perhaps it's an unconscious desire to avoid (or be free of) the oft-times suffocating standards of masculinity? Precarious Manhood suggests an aggressive response to threats to masculinity (the Fight response when faced with threat). What if there's a counterbalance that suggests that some individuals respond with an avoidance tactic (the Flee response when faced with threat)?
Very frustrating, I tried writing a response so many times and it just wouldn't accept it. First, this is the reason I created Provoked - to be able to discuss things that are hard to grapple with. This is a great question and we have so little data - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-024-01001-7 (this is the study).
There is a strong need for qualitative studies that does not intentionally select people to match the desired results but as a general of a population as possible. This is the path to finding the minorities in the minority. Its so hard because the prevalence rates of transgender men or women is so small.
Hey Todd - here's something that I've long been wondering. It's a controversial idea, but I'm trusting you and your audience to recognize that I'm coming from a place of genuine curiosity.
What if a portion of the MTF transgender interventions are due to individuals (young and old) feeling incapable of meeting manhood standards? Perhaps it's an unconscious desire to avoid (or be free of) the oft-times suffocating standards of masculinity? Precarious Manhood suggests an aggressive response to threats to masculinity (the Fight response when faced with threat). What if there's a counterbalance that suggests that some individuals respond with an avoidance tactic (the Flee response when faced with threat)?
Very frustrating, I tried writing a response so many times and it just wouldn't accept it. First, this is the reason I created Provoked - to be able to discuss things that are hard to grapple with. This is a great question and we have so little data - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-024-01001-7 (this is the study).
There is a strong need for qualitative studies that does not intentionally select people to match the desired results but as a general of a population as possible. This is the path to finding the minorities in the minority. Its so hard because the prevalence rates of transgender men or women is so small.