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punkisundead@slrpnk.net 5 days agogood 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.
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.
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.
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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
So there’s this thing called nature where tons of species have members that have same sex partners because it is actually a completely normal thing. Humans happen to be one of them. Not every single member of a species puts reproduction as the highest possible priority as long as enough do to maintain the population.
In fact, the vast majority of things we consider to be mental disorders are only categorized that way because they cause disruption to people’s lives without an outside influence, and being gay is only disruptive due to outside pressures by bigots and small minded people who consider it ‘wrong’.
madjo@feddit.nl 5 days ago
To me that kind of logic doesn’t fly and is your statement one of ignorance.
For instance, I’m asexual, in that I’m really not interested in sex, nor in procreation. The whole idea of sex (and I have had sex in the past) makes me physically feel disgusting and disgusted. You would probably call that a mental disorder too then. But it isn’t.
It’s still just a part of the human experience. My brain is as biologically normal as yours. We all just experience the world in different ways.