US Politics on Sidechat | This is going to be a hot take, but gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. It’s one that the only treatment we’ve found that works is to let them transition, but that doesn’t magically make it not one (continued in comments)

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This is going to be a hot take, but gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. It’s one that the only treatment we’ve found that works is to let them transition, but that doesn’t magically make it not one (continued in comments)

Anonymous 1d

i think it’s generally understood gender dysphoria is a mental disorder the thing people draw issue with is when people can being trans a mental disorder

Anonymous 1d

I feel like the thing is though that “disorder” in terms of mental stuff is pretty subjective. It’s all just neural variation and is inherently neutral. “Disorder” is something that it socially determined where we say “this neural variation is *bad* in some way.” Nature doesn’t care. It’s all just variation.

Anonymous 1d

And we should let them do that because it doesn’t hurt anyone, but again, that doesn’t make it not a disorder. Similarly to asexuality (I bring this up because I can personally relate to it as an ace person), HSDD is a disorder. It’s not a disorder that hurts anyone else and just living life as an asexual is a perfectly fine way of treating it, but that doesn’t make it not a disorder.

Anonymous

OP 1d

I would even venture to say that the majority of personality traits are in one way or another mental disorders caused by chemical inbalances in the brain. Point being, constantly claiming that these things aren’t mental illnesses draws the line at mental illness, and hurts people with other mental disorders.

Anonymous

#1 1d

The act of transitioning is a result of a person having gender dysphoria, the two are not unrelated.

Anonymous

#1 1d

isn’t that the same thing

Anonymous

OP 1d

you can transition without having dysphoria and you can be trans without medically transitioning tho

Anonymous

#2 1d

nope