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[–]DistantGlimmer[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So you think someone with dysphoria who doesn't transition is actually trans innately? I disagree but that is an interesting point of view compared to the more common one that it is the act of identifying as trans that "makes you trans".

I mean, I may qualify as trans according to your definition as I have had some dysphoria symptoms but I definitely don't feel like I should be a woman (even before discovering GC ideology I never thought that).

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of gay males have dysphoria during childhood for 2-3 years. It is mostly caused by social pressure and the fact that no one else around is like us and likes same sex. Majority if not all females have body dysmorphia during their teen years and their fast developing and changing body. And I do not agree that I am trans, or majority of gay males are trans, or that all women are trans.

[–]transwomanHesitantly QT? 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suppose I was a little too vague in my last comment. Allow me to clarify on that point.

I usually make a distinction between gender dysphoria, and "sex dysphoria". Gender dysphoria is a description of distress someone experiences due to a conflict of their gender identity and their sex, while "sex dysphoria" is the distress someone experiences due to a conflict with their "internal" (for lack of better word) sex and their birth sex.

Gender dysphoria is a product of living in a gendered society (socialized behavior), and we would no longer have individuals with gender dysphoria in a genderless society. I do believe that sex dysphoric individuals would still exist in a genderless society, since it is strictly a sex-based distress being experienced.

In essence, sex dysphoric symptoms are innate, while gender dysphoric symptoms are a product of being socialized in a gendered society.

The act of having a gender identity that is not typically associated with your sex (i.e. a male identifying as a woman), makes you are transgender (alleviating gender dysphoric symptoms). So if you believe yourself to be a woman, and your birth sex is female, you would not qualify as transgender.

Meanwhile, if you pursue some form of medicalized treatment (i.e. a male pursuing female hormone replacement therapy), then you are transsexual (alleviating sex dysphoric symptoms). Generally, transsexual individuals also tend to be transgender, such as a male identifying as a woman, but also pursuing hormone therapy or surgery.