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Post #1245962

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moviefreakedmind
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Ask the trans woman (aka interrogate the trans woman)
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Date created
4-Oct-2018, 12:14 AM

RicOlie_2 said:

Note that when I think of psychological disorders, I don’t think that it has any bearing on how valuable or fundamentally good a person is. Some people seem to get really wound up about the idea that gender dysphoria could be some kind of disorder, but have no problem calling depression a mental illness (and bear no ill-will towards depressed people).

I’d hate to answer questions that you posed to someone else in their thread, but depression and transgenderism are not comparable. Depression is a chemical imbalance that lessens the quality of life significantly of the person in question. Being transgender, while often a difficult experience in most societies, is not something that in and of itself prevents someone from living a productive and happy life. I’m not transgender so I can’t speak for people that are, but homosexuality is and has been frequently slapped with the “mental disorder” label in the past and I think it’s a similar mischaracterization of the issue.