Speaker_Knockers
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Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
I personally think that it is a mental illness. It seems to me that society is pretending that it is not an issue and saying "If they want to change, let them change!" I personally don't care if a man tries to become a women (or vise versa), be it by hormone adjustments, wearing different clothes, or getting surgery. However I find it deeply troubling that most people don't see that the suicide rate is over 40% for transgender individuals whether the individual makes the change or not. I think this in and of itself proves that people with gender dysphoria need to have psychological help as opposed to just telling them if they change they'll be okay- because, as statistics show, the transition does not help the rate of suicide which should be our society's biggest concern.
Gender dysphoria used to be called “gender identity disorder.” But the mismatch between body and internal sense of gender is not a mental illness.
Denmark becomes the first country to declassify it as a mental disorder
Whatever the practical effect of Denmark’s move, Edwards-Leeper says, “it is sending the message that an increasing number of people across the globe do not perceive transgender people as ‘crazy,’ but as valuable members of society worthy of respect and human rights like everyone else.”
[FONT="]In the last couple of decades, many medical institutions have [/FONT]moved away[FONT="] from the view that being transgender is the result of mental illness, as they previously did with homosexuality.[/FONT]
However I find it deeply troubling that most people don't see that the suicide rate is over 40% for transgender individuals whether the individual makes the change or not.
the social rejection and violence that many transgender people experience appears to be the primary source of their mental distress, as opposed to the distress being solely the result of being transgender.
I personally think that it is a mental illness. It seems to me that society is pretending that it is not an issue and saying "If they want to change, let them change!" I personally don't care if a man tries to become a women (or vise versa), be it by hormone adjustments, wearing different clothes, or getting surgery. However I find it deeply troubling that most people don't see that the suicide rate is over 40% for transgender individuals whether the individual makes the change or not. I think this in and of itself proves that people with gender dysphoria need to have psychological help as opposed to just telling them if they change they'll be okay- because, as statistics show, the transition does not help the rate of suicide which should be our society's biggest concern.
Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
Gender dysphoria used to be called “gender identity disorder.” But the mismatch between body and internal sense of gender is not a mental illness.
Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
Trying to get some different opinions and arguments on whether or not people think Gender Dysphoria (transgenderism) is a mental illness or not. I'd love to hear what everyone has to think!
It's not because they are trans - it's because of how society treats/views trans.
There's no arguments or opinions to be had, what people "think" is irrelevant. It's not mental disorder and that's deemed by the medical community. Anybody else who thinks it is, is simply wrong. :shrug:
Well that's what I thought as well at first but you may not understand how high that number really is. As far as I know this is the highest recorded suicide rate within any group of people (that I've found). For example in the Jewish people's suicide rate in Lodtz ghetto was 85 per 100,000 in 1942 compaired to today's transgender rates of around 40,000 per 100,000. So with that being said it's a little silly to think that modern day society is worse to trans people than 1942 Nazi Germany was to the Jewish people.
Link to the Nazi Suicide rate numbers:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880554/
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea it is not a mental disorder. According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) which was made by the American Psychiatric Association claims that it is.
Link to DSM V on Gender Dysphoria:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggoMAA&usg=AFQjCNGhZrENyMG0icwJ37y_PdJNP--lQQ
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