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No other mental health disorder is treated like this.

Right. I'm going to bring up bipolar, since u/Genderbender identified herself as a patient and it runs in my own family, so I know it very well (ditto at least one other user here per another thread).

You cannot (for instance) build and promulgate advocacy for bipolar disorder patients that both affirms and denies its existence as a mental health disorder. You must choose.

Similarly, you cannot build and promulgate advocacy for trans people where GD is repeatedly cited and officially acknowledged as a feature of the trans experience and simultaneously deny mental illness (aka GD) as being a feature of the trans experience. You must choose.