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I'm trans. I do have mental illness. It's because society keeps sending me signals that I shouldn't exist.
Is gender dysphoria not considered a health issue?? Legit asking. Like I thought the whole point of transitioning is that that is the treatment for it. That's not a BAD thing, but it is A thing. Calling gay people mentally ill is obviously non sense. Calling ALL trans people mentally ill I don't think is accurate... if they've actually transitioned lmao. Then they're not sick anymore ?? Plz let me know if that take is incorrect. Feel like having pre-transition gender dysphoria compared to other mental illnesses like anxiety/depression/etc is a positive thing because it normalizes it to a degree.
Big difference between them being... there IS actually a cure to gender dysphoria compared to many other mental illnesses that can only be treated. Arguing with a right winger about this shit, he said he felt bad for trans people and that they were mentally ill. My response was "yeah no shit, you realize the way to reduce their risk of suicide is by letting them get the care they and their doctors deem necessary. It's straight cruelty to acknowledge that it is something they need help with yet demonizing them for seeking help."
Guess the people saying shit like the headline aren't doing so with nuance in mind, and for them anyone trans at all = weird/mentally ill/sick.
My thoughts exactly. As an outsider looking in, how would you classify gender dysphoria other than an illness?
It's treatable, just not the way religious fanatics want to.
I would classify it as a neurodivergent condition.
Do you call people with ADHD mentally ill?
So what is a condition if not an illness? Can you have a beneficial medical condition? Maybe it's because English is my second language, but this is part of the confusion.
Well, technically they are. It's a detrimental neurological condition. It doesn't to my knowledge benefit a person to have untreated ADHD. Or as they say, a untreated mental illnessl. I don't much care for the padding of language, rather I would remove the stigma by using the term without judgement.
I think i'm seeing it as a classification tree, i could see Illness branching off to mental illness and then there would be an immense amount of mental illnesses. Somewhere there neuro divergence would be and perhaps ADHD under there.
Calling anyone with a mental health disorder these days is considered extremely rude to begin with. Also, at least in America, people with a condition like ADHD or Autism aren’t considered mentally ill, they’re considered neurodivergent. Which is a term with a much nicer connontation than would be used for someone with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Yes, it’s all semantics, but if you’re going to be talking to people with these conditions, the semantics matter. Don’t call trans people mentally ill. Hell don’t call anyone mentally ill. It’s like calling someone with downs syndrome the r-slur.
I'm not calling anybody anything. You misunderstand my point. Being rude is different from differentiating from the technical categorization of words. They are both. Neuro divergent is a category of mental illness.
I wouldn't call anybody mentally ill, cause it is too simplistic and rude. But it still is what the word means.
Lmaooooo exactly how that convo went with that guy. "Yes theyre sick but think about all the people who transitioned before they were adults who regret it... I am going to focus on those people and ignore how 95% of cases the person doesn't regret it."
98% don’t regret it and those who do overwhemingly onlu regret it because of how society treats them.
I didn't know that "how society treats them" with the regret part o.o can you source on that for future reference
Sure can. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8213007/