There are people here who want it to be a "mental illness", and who will take issue with the field's anticipated transition out of Gender Dysphoria in the DSM and into medical diagnostic manuals more focused on human development. They won't take issue due to scientific reasons though. It'll just be their feelings, but unfortunately "facts don't care about your feelings" as they often like to quote.

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Feb 12 2024 10:02pm

Let me know if your opinion changes on trans people when your pregnant sister gets drop kicked right where my unborn niece was trying to HELP a mentally ill trans person.

Let me know if your opinion changes on trans people when a person yells "faggot" 10 times and a trans person says "I'm going to kill all of you" and runs out the door.

Sorry bud it's a mental illness.

But that's the point: is it actually really just a small percentage of the transgender community that engages in outlandish or alarming behavior?
And keep in mind that due to the tiny population share of transgender people, it doesn't take all that many cases of transgender shooters or pedos to lift the "shooter/pedo rate among transgender persons" above the overall population average, or to a level so elevated that it triggers all sorts of red flags.

A demographic group making up 15% of the population being responsible for 20% of crimes is not as noteworthy as a 0.1% group being responsible for 1% of cases of the same crime. Even more so at a time when functional elites who hold institutional power have largely succumbed to an ideology which seeks to turn this 0.1% demo into a 10% one.

Before formalized systems and protocols to determine if someone is mentally ill and under what specific/broad categorization, mentally ill people existed. I worked for a few years with people with autism, some had other types issues like psychosis/schizophrenia. A laymen person doesn’t have to be a licensed psychiatrist to see observable behaviors that are a deviation from the norm and say okay that person is mentally ill. Six year olds have enough learned behavior and are smart enough to decipher deviations. A laymen may not be able to differentiate between a low functioning autistic person or someone with Down or whatever but generally speaking they know enough to differentiate from the rest of the population and apply the broad umbrella of mental illness.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Feb 12 2024 10:08pm

Sorry to hear that your family went through so many struggles. Take care out there.

Most people think of mental illnesses / disorders in a pretty straightforward way. Does it significantly impair your ability to live a functional life? Is it causing significant damage to your physical and mental health?

Bolded: Yes, yes you do and if any of you were in any position to actually have to diagnose people (as I am), then you'd know this. Y'all mistake deviance as "mental illness" and step twice with the same foot.

Additionally, y'all are likely going to think that it is a "woke agenda" that is moving Gender Dysphoria eventually out of the DSM, but not for any scientific reasons will you object to this. It's just all your personal opinion.

We don't let "most people" create diagnostic criteria or diagnose, and for good reason.

Yea bud so stop pretending like the trans issue can be solved through better mental health services!

My sister literally runs a program designed to help those same people and the LGBTQ+ promotion has made her job harder and more dangerous.

Enabling people to think they are "better then everyone else" and in some cases full on "superiority complexes" is a step in the wrong direction.

My sister is verbally abused by trans people everyday and it's gone as far as physical abuse but yea there's nothing to see here....

Shame on you.

it's hard to judge tbh. personally, i think these batshit insane parents should stop forcing their kids to play with barbie dolls and instead get them doing baal runs, we'd have less gender identity issues