Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Being trans is not a mental illness but let’s not encourage stigma around mental illness either.

    Cis people with mental illness are valid

    Trans people with mental illness are valid

    Mentally healthy trans people are valid

    Mentally healthy cis people are valid

    • metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I mean, being trans is perfectly valid, but I think gender dysphoria itself should be classified as a mental illness so long as it brings significant pain/distress to the individual, the solution there is just gender reassignment, surgery, hormones, etc. I don’t think there should be stigma in calling it such, it needs treatment the same as anything else. People with ADHD have a mental illness and get meds, sometimes therapy, people with poor eyesight have an ocular dysfunction of some kind and get glasses or surgery or whatever, none of it should be that big a deal. The point is it can be diagnosed and treated.

      I think the response to shit like “transgenderism” being a mental disease should be “well at least their/our dysphoria can be treated now, what’s your excuse?”