Tell me how this is not a mental issue. Sane people don't get distressed because they got misgendered

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[–]LasagnaRossa[S] 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course the real girl doesn't get offended if someone misgenders her, since she knows that if you call a rose "leaf", it doesn't stop to be a rose.

The trans girl on the other hand knows deep down he's not a real girl, and hopes that words will change reality. As if we are women because people call us so.

Pure wishful thinking, these people are more deluded than anything and I'm shocked that liberals are going along with them.

[–]Shesstealthy 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I used to, a bit. I got really upset if mistaken for male, feeling like I must not look like a girl was supposed to look, and wondering what I was doing wrong since I had breasts and so forth.

What I was doing wrong was being tallish and having a lowish voice.

But at that time I was easing into womanhood and wanted boys especially to see me as an attractive girl.

[–]Monchichi 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course it's a mental illness. It's not healthy to convince yourself you're another sex than you are. It's not healthy to willingly undergo unnecessary surgery that will make you a medical patient for the rest of your life and undergo treatment that will shorten your life just because you've convinced yourself you're of a different sex. It's not healthy to freak out because somebody refers to you as Him instead of Her, or the other way around. It's not healthy to break down because somebody uses your previous name. It's not healthy to be dysphoric to the extent of being suicidal. It's not healthy to be so engrossed in yourself that you risk your marriage and your relationship with your children and social stigmatization because of your autogynephilia.

[–]jet199 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A women on r/detrans said she didn't even get any pronoun dysphoria until after she transitioned. Then it was crippling.

The supposed cure creates the disease.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you obsess about that sort of thing, I guess it's not that unlikely that you'd risk developing an unhealthy compulsion where being referred to by the wrong pronoun is literally akin to an atomic bomb being set off beside you. Trans ideology repeatedly demonstrates to us how unhealthy it is with this sorta thing.

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

It's no surprise that lying to one's self (especially about something as intrinsic as sex) is bad for mental health

[–]sisterinsomnia 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I believe that it is an issue with the real fragility of the gender identity of some transgender people. When someone uses the wrong pronouns on them their world collapses. And yes, in all other contexts this would be viewed as a mental health disorder of some type and the responsibility for dealing with it would not be put on the shoulders of everyone else. This particular minority is treated differently, probably because most negative consequences are experienced by boring bog-standard women who are expected to be kind, without boundaries and so on.

[–]macaron 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you're experiencing thinking something that doesn't reflect reality, it's a mental health problem. Depression, anorexia, body dysmorphia, schizophrenia, etc. They are mental health issues because the mind has distorted reality. Gender dysphoria is no different.