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[–]yishengqingwa666 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Anyone who claims to be the opposite sex, has 'dysphoria', is on cross-sex hormones, demands mutilating surgeries and regularly threatens suicide is mentally ill.

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Not all transgender people meet those qualifications, though. There are some transgender people who don't claim to be the opposite sex (they accept that their sex is male or female, but believe that shouldn't dictate their behavior and personality traits). They don't wish to use hormones or undergo surgery. They don't have any distress over their sex (the definition of gender dysphoria requires distress) and don't threaten suicide in any way.