Lots of talk on this issue of late and I don't quite know what to think.
There seems to be a distinction with the language we use to describe the discussion.
Sex = biological?
Gender = psychological?
Reading several psychological opinions (including the WHO website) it seems that gender disphoria is still classified as a mental disorder. However listening to popular opinion, gender disphoria seems as normal as having two thumbs.
At first blush the discussion seems rather straightforward: a man with gender disphoria is a man in every regard, every cell in his body has a Y chromosome. (With the exception of some of his sperm) but his brain is telling him differently.
This can lead to all kinds of problems for the individual. Enough so that it can effect his life in very adverse ways.
I can certainly see it as a disorder.
It's hard for me NOT to see it as a disorder. Perhaps I'm mistaken?
There seems to be a distinction with the language we use to describe the discussion.
Sex = biological?
Gender = psychological?
Reading several psychological opinions (including the WHO website) it seems that gender disphoria is still classified as a mental disorder. However listening to popular opinion, gender disphoria seems as normal as having two thumbs.
At first blush the discussion seems rather straightforward: a man with gender disphoria is a man in every regard, every cell in his body has a Y chromosome. (With the exception of some of his sperm) but his brain is telling him differently.
This can lead to all kinds of problems for the individual. Enough so that it can effect his life in very adverse ways.
I can certainly see it as a disorder.
It's hard for me NOT to see it as a disorder. Perhaps I'm mistaken?
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