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Hey, I meant to respond to this the other day but I REALLY appreciate your comment! I agree that it's important to distinguish between "gender dysphoria" and "sex dysphoria". In fact, I feel like I have experienced "sex dysphoria" myself but never really related to the whole idea of "gender dysphoria", at least how trans-rights activists describe it, anyway.

Completely agree @ anorexia, as well. I have not read the research literature on it myself, yet, but-- maybe it is even worth its own post, eating disorders and transgender identification.

The paradox is that on a societal level, ignoring this problem that plagues many isn't a good approach, but on an individual level, ignoring it/not obsessing about it is probably the thing that helps most.

This is a fantastic observation. I will be mulling this one over for a while. :)