Both: Is gender dysphoria a mental illness? & Is being trans a mental illness?

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[–]catoborosnonbinary 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, the distress experienced by someone with a mismatch between gender identity and biological sex. Transgender identity is part of normal human variation, analogous to homosexual orientation or lefthandedness.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

How is homosexuality or left handedness an identity? They’re descriptors. Is a woman who has no sexual attraction to females still homosexual if she says she identifies as homosexual?

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Clearly most of us are only right handed because we identify as such.

I personally identify as ambidextrous.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Tried identifying as left handed to sew..attached finger to seam. Now I identify as a sweater.

[–]catoborosnonbinary 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I am saying that these things are not choices. Sexual orientation and handedness seem to be innate. I think gender identity is similar in that people are not choosing it, they are identifying the thing they already have but that no one else can see.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How can someone identify with something they are not though? How do they have the ‘woman/man gender’ if they are not given it via socialisation, and it’s not physically real?

Also, why don’t most other people have any gender identity? What causes one in the first place, let alone one that doesn’t correspond to any experience or to the physical self?

What is your understanding of identity beyond gender?

[–]Penultimate_Penance 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some people believe they have psychic powers. Some people believe they are the next coming of Christ. Some people believe they have souls. Some men believe they are women. Why should I take any of these people seriously? What evidence do you have that gender identity is real other than self declaration?

Also how on earth would it be possible for a man have an inkling of a clue what it feels like to be a woman? God and every religion on earth is more plausible than a man experiencing what it is literally impossible for him to experience.