No one is in the wrong body.

As if this needs an explanation: No one is "in" a body. Everyone _is_ their body. There is no other body that should have been or could have been -- it just is.

Even if it were possible (and it is not possible) to medically identify someone as having a "female" brain in a "male" body or vice versa, that would not change the reality of "This person's body just is how it is."

There are countless medical conditions that we might not lfeel right about, but we don't categorize them as "I'm an A in a B body." That would sound quite illogical. "I'm a non-migraine sufferer in a migraine sufferer's body." or "I'm a one-armed person in a two-armed body."

"I'm a young, talented basketball star in a middle-aged untalented body." or "I'm a guy with a lush head of hair in a prematurely balding body." There's no other condition for which we think in these terms.

So before we put gender into a mental framework that's unique to all other human experience, we have to answer empirically "Why is this different from all other human bodily dissatisfaction?" And "What is the empirical evidence to support the answer to that first question?"

If we base our answers on the evidence available right now, today, the answers are "It's not different" and "There is no evidence to support a difference."

Now to be sure, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Maybe science will discover some unique difference. (I doubt it, but maybe.) Until that time, we must not treat gender dysphoria different from any other type of severe bodily dissatisfaction.

We mustn't change laws based on it. We mustn't change women's & girls' existing rights based on it. While it's important to be kind & respectful, it's up for debate: Is agreement with someone's false belief kind or respectful? We don't call people with anorexia "Fatty."

It's an honest question. I wouldn't go out of my way to call someone in a dress who wants to be called Amelia/she, Fred/he. Nor would I go out of my way to use the words "Amelia" and "she" in this context, or to say or do anything to imply agreement, because that would be a lie.

Like any decent human, I genuinely want to be kind to people. There is an honest question with regard to what constitutes kindness in this context. The majority of trans people I meet are not happy. They have the same set of problems they always did, plus one more. Is that good?

I don't know, for sure, what constitutes kindness & compassion in this context. With a dementia patient, it's generally agreed that agreement with their statements is considered kind. If they think they're down on the farm in 1954 and you're their dad, you go along with it.

I don't think people with gender dysphoria should be treated the same way as dementia patients. Dementia patients cannot get their beliefs more in line with reality -- they're never getting better -- is therefore kinder to agree with them.

Maybe a better approach would be similar to the advice given when talking with schizophrenic patients: neither agreeing or disagreeing.

If someone tells you they're being followed by the CIA, you don't say "No you're not!" or "Yes you are - and omg there's one now!" You respond to their emotion: "That sounds pretty scary." With someone with gender dysphoria, we can agree that all their emotions are real.

Maybe that's the way to go. I do know that we need to get away from this faux progressive woke catechism that states people can be in the wrong body, and all must agree to go along with that idea. I do believe that's harmful. /Fin