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arkavgal said:
What basis do they have for giving people with gender dysphoria issues?
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They can.

The vague argument they make is due to “medical risks” of HRT and the higher percentage numbers of the trans community that commits or attempts to commute suicide.

But I’ve not encountered a single person actively involved the care of trans persons who think the FAA’s requirements have any medical necessity. Hell, even my AME thinks the process is unnecessary.

But the FAA can and so they do. They aren’t interested in making sure pilots are medically fit or mentally well adjusted. Their interest is in being able to say that their standards prevented someone who’s unfit from being at the controls. If they keep one “undesirable” out they succeeded. The thousand others they keep out who are otherwise qualified don’t matter to them.
 
Karnage said:
If you think that’s bad, you should see how FAA Aeromedical treats transgender people or let alone anyone that ever had an ADHD diagnosis as a kid even if it was never treated with meds!
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My mother, with an almost deadly level of seriousness, told the very stern Kumon Learning Center lady (believe it or not, I was bad at math as a kid) that I was not ADHD: the problem was I was not interested in what she was telling me. The attention span safety cutout still trips when this is true, thirty plus years on.
 
arkavgal said:
Yes, I was put through the ringer with neuropsych testing for ADHD about 20 years ago, despite never having taken medication.

What basis do they have for giving people with gender dysphoria issues? I'm no longer maintaining an FAA medical, but given I'm trans and a psychiatric nurse practitioner, you've piqued my curiosity.
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arkavgal said:
Pilots are dinged for getting therapy for depression and anxiety? Seriously?
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These statements are at odds, incidentally.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
My mother, with an almost deadly level of seriousness, told the very stern Kumon Learning Center lady (believe it or not, I was bad at math as a kid) that I was not ADHD: the problem was I was not interested in what she was telling me. The attention span safety cutout still trips when this is true, thirty plus years on.
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Lalalala I am not listening to Geoffrey etc
 
ahw01 said:
Lalalala I am not listening to Geoffrey etc
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The only math class I ever completely aced was symbolic logic. Everything else…well, it was a relief to get to higher levels of math in college and have at least two professors say “do not injure yourself by doing the algebra or reducing fractions or the like.” I still did occasionally injure myself doing ‘incidental’ algebra or arithmetic…
 
Why would you report some psych thing from early childhood on a medical? If its so far behind. Hell, I was recently asked if I had a certain vaccination from umpteen years ago. My pediatrician had since retired many years ago, died, and those yellow parchment receipts are long in some landfill.. so, "it didn't happen"
 
Autothrust Blue said:
My mother, with an almost deadly level of seriousness, told the very stern Kumon Learning Center lady (believe it or not, I was bad at math as a kid) that I was not ADHD: the problem was I was not interested in what she was telling me. The attention span safety cutout still trips when this is true, thirty plus years on.
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It’s a case of VERY weird perverse incentives. We’ve “monetized” ADHD on a whole bunch of different levels: pharmacologically, psychologically, educationally and even parents getting bizarre social cred by saying "yea, my kid is ADHD".

There is a whole industry built up on it, and when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
 
KLB said:
I do not believe that one company out of many should have the power to limit the advancement in the ATC system or any other company.

It reminds me on how Boeing capitulated to SWA and all the "good" that did them. I remember when SWA first got 737's with glass flightdecks and they insisted that Boeing have a circular dial presentation in them so that they looked like the rest of the fleet rather than give it's crews proper difference training.
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Continental did the same thing when their NG’s first showed up.
 
sorrygottarunway said:
Why would you report some psych thing from early childhood on a medical? If its so far behind. Hell, I was recently asked if I had a certain vaccination from umpteen years ago. My pediatrician had since retired many years ago, died, and those yellow parchment receipts are long in some landfill.. so, "it didn't happen"
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The irony is that inattention to something uninteresting is frequently seen in ADHD.

Richman said:
It’s a case of VERY weird perverse incentives. We’ve “monetized” ADHD on a whole bunch of different levels: pharmacologically, psychologically, educationally and even parents getting bizarre social cred by saying "yea, my kid is ADHD".

There is a whole industry built up on it, and when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Historically, ADHD was probably under-diagnosed. We know more about ADHD and have more treatment options than ever before.
 
derg said:
Once I get out of KZMP, Canada is blissful hours of “MONTIOR XXXX on XXX.XX” until we get to Anchorage and it’s “WAOOOO! Hey dawg, check in wit’ ya onboard pippin’ that Tree- Six- Zerrah. Nina One SHOOGA POP Herky DURR”
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