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[–]useless_aether[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

i think it is mental illness, why what do you think it is?

[–]wizzwizz4 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

A perfectly ordinary expression of human identity. I guess you also think homosexuality is an illness? No matter. This is really just semantics, based on our inherent perceptions of the morality of various things.

[–]Zombi 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I mean, is it not indicative that something is wrong when your body is clearly designed for a certain thing yet your brain wants it to do another? Maybe "illness" isn't the right word, but it's very obviously NOT normal when you are born with a penis and you want a vagina, that just makes zero sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

I'm not saying homosexuality is wrong or being trans is wrong in a moral sense. I do think it is a disorder. We call people who think they're the center of the universe narcissists and we call it a mental disorder. We call people who hate themselves and their lives depressed and label it a mental disorder. We call people who lack empathy psychopaths and label them as having a mental disorder. None of the people with these disorders can control how they feel and they even have different brains just like a trans or homosexual person. Yet even though on paper being trans or gay checks all the boxes of a mental disorder, calling it so is seen as a bad thing?

I have depression. I can just as easily say I was born this way and my depression is a way of expressing my identity (and in some ways I do think it is). I'm fine with being labeled as "wrong" or having a "disorder". It doesn't define me and neither should your gender.

[–]CherryPieNTheSky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I concur with your points. Why is being trans not mental illness? I suffer from depression, anxiety, and ptsd - I am considered mentally ill because of that. Yet a little boy who has a penis but doesn't want it, is normal?

[–]Icalasari 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not like it's even an insult - it's literally that the way the brain is wired causes the person issues and anguish in modern society to the point of sometimes needing treatment to manage, which being trans clearly does cause (in the case of trans, stuff like hormone treatments and sex reassignment surgery)