Gender dysphoria isn’t a mental illness. However if it were why is that a problem and why should the mentally ill be denigrated?
Gender dysphoria is a condition of extreme distress when there is a disconnect between ones physical sex and ones gender identity. The medical treatment for this is to allow the person to transition, however far they themself deem appropriate.
If someone with gender dysphoria cannot transition they are highly likely to take their own life.
If any person with bad intentions wanted to compromise a “woman’s space” all they need do is walk through the door. There’s no magic shield. We have respect one another as human beings and keep each other safe.
If it is a mental illness, isn't it more humane to seek psychological treatment and find the root casue for it than to allow people to chop off their genitals?
We don't allow people to cut themselves, there are legititimately people who want their leg or hand or foot chopped off, we send them to get psychological help and docs refuse to cut off their limbs, why is then ok for people who "feel" they are in the wrong body to take hormones (which can do other damage than the obvious, like blood clots and more), wreak havoc on their body irreversibly and chop off their perfectly fine genitals?
People ask questions, have concerns, bring up cases and mention the fact that study is actively squashed into these matters, and are for that labelled "haters", "phobic" and whatnot. I don't get it.
There are cases of people who transition, are still deeply unhappy, are unhappy with the reality of what it is to be a woman (the upkeep, the feminine issues natural born women face etc etc) and transition back.
We say people who go for excessive plastic surgery are mentally ill and that's fine to say, but to say that maybe trans people are mentally isn't?
It's part of the process of understanding and if there's eventually a cure, why not allow these ideas and see where that takes us?
No one here, from what I've read, wants to suppress transpeople and no one wants to forbid men wearing skirts.
The fact that children allowed to take hormones to transition is insane. How many girls are tomboys or boys like "girl" things etc etc and "grow out" of it? But these days, these kids are instantly "gay" or "trans", get a handful of pills "to feel like themselves" (isn't that mental illness??) and are scheduled for transition surgery.
The lawsuits, psychological scarring, suicide rates and whatnot in 10-40 years will be a sight to behold.
And the "trans" people who will say and cry "why did you allow this to us? Children to make these decisions? Why didn't the adults protect us" will lead another social change and we will look back at these barbaric times and the fact that educational institutions don't allow any study and the PC brigade just wants everyone to nod and say "yes" to any idea that comes is just insane.
If someone feels they are in the wrong body, they dress like the opposite sex, wear makeup etc etc, I have no problem with that. But surgery should seriously be off-limits, I knew of the problems MtF faced with their fake vaginas, but wasn't quite as aware until I read the post above somewhere. Anyone who allows for these surgeries needs their head examined. Seriously, this over-reach of the movement, incl the surgeries and esp allowing kids to transition, will be a massive scandal in a few decades, when the chickens come home to roost, there'll be massive backlash and problems of unprecedented scale.
