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I believe gender dysphoria is both a mental illness and a social construct. Most of the time, gender dysphoria arises from people not wanting to perform the stereotypes associated with their sexes. For example, a woman who, for one reason or another, doesn't want to be expected to perform her sex's stereotypes will identify as a "trans man" or a "non-binary person". Gender dysphoria can also result from trauma, internalized homophobia, a mental illness such as BPD/ASD that causes identity issues, or fetishism, and those are either mental illnesses or social constructs. I don't think that brain sex is a good argument because of neuroplasticity and the fact that brain scans are more indicative of sexual orientation rather than gender.