How sure are you of your beliefs?

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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh wow, it’s a complicated question!! My belief currently is that gender dysphoria is a mental illness, but there a multiple causes for it and not all gender dysphoria is the same. It could be a medical condition too, but we don’t know that it is currently even though being a transsexual is a medical condition. My beliefs are strong just because of being a transsexual and being aware and involved with this issue for so long, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t change if we learned more. Some thing I’ve experienced personally I probably couldn’t be convinced on though. Like, no one can convince me gender/sex dysphoria isn’t real or that transwomen don’t commit sexual assault.

Does what gender dysphoria is matter for whether male bodied people should be in women’s spaces though? Even if a transwomen was 100% proven to be a “female” brain in a male body, women could still have issues with male bodied people in women’s spaces. I use some women’s spaces just in the world and I’m very much not comfortable with a visibly male person or person with intact male genitals being in space where I am vulnerable.

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

Why do you think transsexuality is a medical condition?

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I feel like I probably worded this badly, sorry! Being a transsexual is medical condition because of what happens our bodies, not like pre-transition. Like, I don't produce sex hormones naturally and, even though I am male, I've had high levels of estrogen and some progesterone for most of my life. My genitals were also surgically changed to be more like the sex I felt like I was. How bodies are different is different for different transsexuals, but we aren't like regular people of our sex any more. Maybe at first things are reversable, but it doesn't take long before they aren't. That's why I say it is a medical condition. It doesn't make sense to treat transsexual bodies medically the same way as a normal person their age of either sex.