Isn't gender dysphoria officially a disorder?

I always preferred The Chaos Sanctuary, personally. Waiting between waves was the absolute worst.

Gender Dysphoria is a specific experience, and not synonymous with being transgender. The APA has already signaled that it is wanting to move Gender Dysphoria out of the DSM and into medical diagnostic manuals related to human development; however, that process is going to take time and the current inclusion affords the ability for gender affirming care to be covered by insurance (This is why they don't simply remove it now). Rather than Gender Dysphoria being viewed as a "mental illness", it is increasingly being viewed as a disorder of human development in which there's an incongruence between people's physical bodies, internal sense of self, and social identification. We aren't certain as to what contributes to the formation of this incongruence, but research has shown that viewing it as a mental illness is an antiquated understanding.

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Feb 12 2024 10:23pm

that's where the line is for me. for example in duff's video you got that dude who believes he's a dragon incarnate. but on the other side, there's transgenders who seem like they have real gender identity issues and take legitimate steps to try to improve their life. seems like two wildly different diagnoses (in my example)

Yes. Are you suggesting otherwise?

Gender dysphoria: A concept designated in the DSM-5-TR as clinically significant distress or impairment related to gender incongruence, which may include desire to change primary and/or secondary sex characteristics.

Short answer: Yes it is

you lack the real world experience dealing with people with this disorder in a clinical setting....

It's actually really bad and you having a laze faire attitude about it won't help the underlying issue.

Transgender people attacking nurses/doctors/health care providers verbally/physically is more common then you think and I just gave you a real world example where my sister didn't press charges on a trans individual because she didn't want to ruin her/his life....

Do you think this uptick in "trans activism" is leading to MORE or LESS physical/verbal violence?

Where are your examples I gave mine.

This post was edited by SwamiVivekananda on Feb 12 2024 10:40pm

Moving the goal posts, which is inherently driven by political activism. To Gooms point, that’s why there’s growing push back to what ‘experts’ have to say about things.

yeah true. i do love exploding the waves with lightning fury though. i could do that all day

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Feb 12 2024 10:39pm

The politicization of science and policy has been one of the most unfortunate outcomes of the past twenty years. The ideological capture of whole institutions, whether it's Harvard excusing Jew blood libel or HR blocking the hire of adogmatic thinkers, has done serious harm to their credibility with the public. I think it's the reason the "March through the institutions" was such a mistake. You get what you want, but not what you expect.

This post was edited by bogie160 on Feb 12 2024 10:41pm

Your opinions on the political activism being the root of this change are centered in what, exactly?