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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly personality disorders are so common I’d guarantee there are transgender people with bpd. I just don’t want to put too much stock into my own obs when I know I’m nowhere near educated enough to get into the nitty gritty of disordered psychology/psychiatry.

Still, very very interesting that you’ve observed a similar phenomenon in the transgender community. Wonder if it will ever be explored academically?

The detransitioner point is actually really interesting and would probably do well to be explored. It’s not a huge reach to imagine some may have tried to fill some void with gender via transition, especially when some detransitioned people have said as much about their own experience.

It’s really quite depressing to think that personality disorders may be being so wildly mistreated via quick transition when they could benefit so much from DBT and CBT.

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I feel like I've seen some papers (well, abstracts) on the subject. I think it was brought up in one of the threads in the sub, though maybe not in the same way (I think we were talking about conditions being passed on from mothers/parents).

It seems like smarter people than I always beat me to looking into things, so I bet that will be something to be explored academically if it hasn't already, though maybe not until TRAs get a little less militant in trying to stop research into transgenderism, transsexualism and gender dysphoria.

I'd really like to have some long conversations with de-transitioners about this (and about other things), they really seem to offer a lot of insight into these sorts of things. It really is sad to know it probably has been the case for some to undergo something so drastic and dramatic like transitioning, when it likely would just cause more pain.