SuperStraight

It used to be accepted that gender identity disorder could be treated as a mental illness, just like any psychological condition that causes people distress. For a few people, nothing seemed to work, and so they were allowed to transition. This is why there used to be fairly few transitioners.

Now, however, gender activists have hijacked LGB claims that homosexuality is not a mental illness to say that gender identity disorder is not a mental illness -- while, at the same time, demanding medical treatment for it.

Gay people do not claim homosexuality is a mental illness, and we do not demand treatment for it. We just want to live our lives. Ex-gay conversion therapy was notoriously ineffective and often brutal, but gender activists have linked treatment for gender identity disorder to ex-gay conversion therapy in order to ban it.

But why not want to be happy living in your own body? What's wrong with that? Wouldn't psychotherapy be preferable to invasive surgeries and a lifetime of dependency on cross-sex hormones?

My experience, being in my 50s, of trans people I've known is that their distress never really seems to go away, and I genuinely feel bad for them.