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Can we agree being trans is related to mental illness? Not in a dumb fuck transphobic way, but in a “these symptoms are very clearly body dysmorphia and the best treatment 9/10 times is transitioning” way. Am I transphobic for this take?
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Anonymous 15h

Can whoever down voted me please come back and explain what is wrong? I genuinely would like to better my self

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Anonymous 11h

i present an even hotter take, i don't mind at all if someone is truly trans and transitions, but people are way too quick to validate instead of slowing down and thinking about what else might be causing those feelings. a lot of times people who transition seem to have mistaken general dysphoric and dissociative symptoms for gender related dysphoria. an example is trauma related dysphoria, ive seen a lot of ftms that seem to have been suffering from internalized misogyny or sa trauma and took -

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Anonymous 16h

I really dont care if someone is trans. I love my friends and my fellow people on this earth, i just get unreasonably upset when people deny something that is pretty clearly obvious to me

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Anonymous 11h

Weiners and gonads

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

the problem is the usage of the phrase "mental illness" imo. as you noted in your post, that framing has been completely taken over by transphobes and right wing lunatics. if you posted "i think we can agree that trans healthcare is an important issue" then i'd be with you 100% but "trans people are mentally ill so we should support their treatment," though similar, sets off MAJOR alarm bells.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

While i do agree with what you are saying, in tha it is not phrased well and that trans health care is important, i just feel like denying that being trans is caused by something messed up in brain chemistry is ignorant. I mean maybe someone has explained it better in your life, but what i have gotten is “it just feels wrong” or “i finally feel in my own skin” which is body dysmorphia

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

Like i feel like people here “illness” and assume it means wrong, hut i feel it just means different

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

that's fine, and i wish we lived in a world where mental illness was not enormously stigmatized, i'd just recommend against framing it that way in the current political climate.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

Okay thank you 🙏. I get what you mean too. I am very bad at phrasing and im very strong opinioned

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11h

their discomfort with their bodies as a sign of "being a man" rather than just deregulation from trauma manifesting physically. similarly a lot of autistic people have unique relationships with their identities, but this doesn't always mean they're trans or nb, sometimes gender feels odd for autistic people because their relationships with social constructs are all just different from what neurotypical ppl experience.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11h

mental illness isn't inherently a bad thing though. society associates it as bad, but mental illness itself isn't really bad unless you view it as bad

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8h

Agreed, I have a mental illness and it will never go away, and I hate when we can only look at one side of the illness, because I wouldn’t be uniquely me without it in both ways

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