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• punkisundead@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  good that you know better than the people that write psychatric / psychological guidelines for professionals. they actually removed the classification as a mental disorder based on more uptodate research and the current scientific consensus. its sad to see people not only repeating this transphobic talking point but people on Lemmy also upvoting it.

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  • Tgo_up@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Saying a person, who feels like the opposite sex of what they are, has a mental disorder, is not transphobic. It’s a very simple fact.

    It doesn’t mean I think they’re worth less than other people or shouldn’t be allowed to live their life how they want, but it’s obviously a mental disorder, no matter what the experts choose to call it.

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    • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except, the DSM-5, the main authority on this, specifically says it’s not a mental disorder, just like how being gay isn’t a mental disorder anymore since DSM-4.

      You can disagree, but that’s just as stupid as disagreeing with fire being hot. It’s just reality-denialism on your part.

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      • Tgo_up@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Being gay to the point of not having any interest in the other sex is clearly a mental disorder too…

        I’m not saying it’s something we should do anything about, but clearly, biologically we’re meant to have some attraction to the opposite sex so we will procreate.

        Maybe the definition of mental disorder is different than how I use it. English is not my first language. All I’m saying is that some place in your brain something is not as it’s biologically supposed to be if you feel like a different sex than you are or if you’re not at all attracted to the opposite sex, to the point where it hinders you procrearing.

        To me that’s very simple logic and not a provocative statement t all.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You clearly dont know what you’re talking about. You do not know better than the experts who spent years in studying psychology.

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  • Tgo_up@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not about knowing anything. It’s about logic…

    If you’re born a male but don’t feel like you’re a male when you get older, there’s clearly something mentally wrong… I don’t see how you can even question that.

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They will never born male in the first place.

      Being trans was always there. The person just learned to vocalize it.

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      • Tgo_up@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If they were born with a x and y chromosome and a penis they were born male…

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