Stop stigmatizing medical diagnoses by implying that they are a bad thing to be classified as!
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- Destigmatising and demedicalising are not mutually exclusive.
- Being trans cannot be demedicalised as it already isn’t a medical condition (Gender Dysphoria is).
- Affirming that being trans isn’t a medical condition/illness does not entail stigmatising them nor mean that they are bad things to have.
being trans isn’t the condition in itself, but it’s the result of the medical condition of experiencing sex dysphoria… because you need dysphoria—a simple disconnect between the sex of the body and the sex of the brain—to be trans.
dysphoria is a medical condition. dysphoria —> transgender. therefore being trans is the result of a medical condition, and that’s okay. in fact, it would benefit far more people to destigmatize medical conditions as a whole than to believe gender dysphoria and transgenderism are somehow above them, and it would also benefit trans people to keep their condition medicalized, covered by insurance, and affordable.
Dysphoria is not “a disconnect between the sex of the body and the sex of the brain”—at least not as medically defined—but a chronic, negative emotional state. Further is does not cause somebody to be trans but is caused by being trans (whether the primary cause is a “disconnect” or something else is not known).
This is a matter of fact, or at least medical consensus. One can speculate primary causes that are (or would be considered) medical conditions, such as hormone levels in utero, but being trans in and of itself—having a gender other than one’s assigned gender/sex—is not a medical condition.
As I already said, recognising this does not preclude destagmatising medical conditions. It certainly doesn’t mean that “transgenderism [is] somehow above them”, not least because Gender Dysphoria is a medical condition; that’s a straw argument. And, since GD is a medical condition, medical treatment is not affected.
Why do you think it’s stigmatised in the first place, because it’s seen as a medical condition instead of just being who you are. There was a version of this kind of thing with the homophile movement, gay people acting like being gay was an illness and they should be given rights on that basis. “Don’t hate us, we’re just sick. We can’t help that we have an illness, don’t throw us in jail for us being sick.” You know what rights that got them? Conversion Therapy! Sounds a lot like the transmed movement to be honest!
Source: Society and The Healthy Homosexual – Dr. George Weinberg.
@terflies @playfulghost being trans is caused by a medical condition… which is dysphoria… which, according to the DSM-5, isn’t a necessarily a “chronic negative state”. but rather a “marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least 6 months duration.” where in that does it say it has to be a “negative” state? that’s a—how do you say?—straw argument on terflies’ end, friends.
and no, hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgeries are NOT comparable to conversion therapy. therefore neither can the transmedicalist community be compared to the homophile movement. that was a good try though, friend.
The comparison is there, pal. You literally think being trans is a medical condition, just like the homophile movement thought being gay was a mental illness. Different year, same bullshit.
aaaaand you’re comparing trans people wanting affordable medical treatment to transition and be perceived as cis to conversion therapy.
Aaaa I actually didn’t. I too want affordable trans healthcare but we shouldn’t be forced to ‘prove’ that we’re trans and conform to trans stereotypes in order to get healthcare. We need informed consent instead of all these gender clinics and being diagnosed with gender dysphoria. It’s bullshit. Most of the time, a cis woman is able to get hormones from her doctor without hassle, why can’t that be trans people too?
i shouldnt be forced to ‘prove’ i have adhd to get medicine! i should just get the fucking medicine lmao!
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