Is being trans a 'disease'/mental health issue?

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I'm asking on this board for deliberate considered responses so please do share your thoughts.

A lady on a local group has described being trans as a mental illness that should be treated with compassion not pandered to because it's a disease.

Looking into it more deeply I believe she's wrong and there is no current diagnostic manual that agrees with her take.

What do you think?

Pink as a clothing choice was predominantly male until relatively recently.

Back to stereotypes then.

My best friend has smaller tits than I do but earns more, shall I tell her she needs to hand over the difference in salary? 😂

That's not what I said. Clearly many people like gender critical people don't acknowledge biological influences that influence gendered inclinations & consider them purely patriarchal/cultural influences AND as such reject gendered categorisations.

But for rational people, who are able to recognise their biologically induced patterns of behaviour that fall into socially constructed categories its different.

It's no different from expensive hand bag competitiveness. You seriously believe women don't compete with one another aesthetically?

No, again, gendered inclinations are biologically & environmentally influenced but their social categorisation is a human construct.

Ah yes, those well-known rational people who think that it's perfectly natural and logical for people to inflict medical damage on their healthy bodies. The epitome of Reason indeed.

Your GC framework preventing you to think rationally might be the culprit here.

Sure they do. But thinking that big boobs are the top of boob aesthetics is a typically male belief, not a female one at all.

Social categories based on typical behaviours. Still not getting the difference between 'typical' & 'expectations'? Try a dictionary.

You lost me at "cis"

I was following your argument until you inserted that horrible word.

Also, I just realised that you are stating that there are hundreds of studies showing differences in brains between trans people and non-trans people. There aren't. There are not hundreds of studies and there aren't measurable differences between brains in this way.

Aesthetics is personal. Speaking for all women again? Some would say that people who assume women can't enjoy/use their bodies their bodies without the male gaze is misogynistic. In fact studies show upto 90% of women engage in AGP.

No they don't. (90% of "studies".)
You just made that up

Precisely: aesthetics is personal, hence why women don't have a hierarchy according to boob size. My point, exactly.

In fact studies show up to 90% of women engage in AGP.

Well, duh. Women sexually enjoy their bodies and the thought of having a female body. Wow. What a shock... What was your point again?

I'm beginning to wonder whether the OP question is as niave as it might seem on first reading, or whether it is another or the now endless threads started to take up time with getting FWRers to repeat what most of us know, so that as a whole FWR just becomes ground hog day instead of moving forward.

This is the exact kind of utter BS that confuses kids in the first place.

If the "behaviours, expressions, and identities" are socially constructed, then how does mimicking them physically transform a person into the opposite sex?

body dysmorphia disorder is listed in the dsmd as an illness.

JFC... You really turned this to handbags?!

This stinks of TIM optics of women.

Is being trans a 'disease'/mental health issue?

I believe its a social construct.
For some it's an adolescent phase, experimentation, a trend
Some are genuinely confused and overwhelmed
Some are hiding within it from some kind of trauma
Some use it as their main form of identity, to be part of a group
Some use it to exhibit, or veil, some kind of paraphilia
. . . probably other reasons too

There isn’t a simple answer to your question because there are multiple disorders (for lack of a better term) that fall under the “trans” umbrella. RGOD, AGP, “traditional transexual”, internalized homophobia, body dysmorphia…

‘No drama’ does not equate to ‘no demands’.

Even if you, personally and voluntarily, use the word ‘woman’ as a reference to a male person’s belief about themselves because that is how that person describes themself, that is in essence a demand to use female language for a male person based on their belief about their identity.

Have you ever tried to not use female language for them? Ever seen anyone else in their live not use the language they have asked for even just passively through their self description that others then use for whatever reason? Or do they cut contact those people who don’t?

Is it that they (men) feel they are the opposite sex or want to be?

How is psychosis a social construct?

I'm not sure what you mean by this?