#transmed discourse
unpopular opinion but we should make hrt and surgery easier to get, not harder. informed consent should be an option for all fully-informed adults and it really doesn’t matterthat a handful of trendy cis people might take advantage of that and transition when they don’t need to.
like sorry but i’ll prioritize giving trans people access to the healthcare they need over protecting stupid people from their own bad decisions any day. i can’t believe that’s even a question.
like if your bio has ‘truscum don’t interact’ in it but you go out of your way to interact with truscum first then like…i Really Don’t Know What to Tell You.
and like honestly you all knowthat when someone says “you need dysphoria to be trans” they mean “you need genderdysphoria to be trans.” trying to claim that you don’t need dysphoria to be trans because “dysphoria” means “a state of feeling very unhappy, uneasy, or dissatisfied” is just…stupid.
use your context clues. holy hell. do you do the same thing when someone with an eating disorder claims to have “anorexia” when what they’re referring to is ~actually~ called anorexia nervosa? no, because you’re an intelligent human being capable of basic reading comprehension and you know exactly what that person meant. literally nobody is saying that you need to be “very unhappy, uneasy, or dissatisfied” to be trans. they’re saying you need a disconnect between your birth sex and your gender identity. you know that.
how do you handle concepts like lesbians (who could also be people from the island of lesbos) or homophobia (which could also be the fear of things that are the same)? how do you handle homonyms and homophones? do you shit your pants every time someone uses an acronym with multiple meanings?
“Use your context clues” you say but then clearly don’t use context clues to realise that if dysphoria means general discomfort then clearly gender dysphoria would mean discomfort with your agab. Which, surprise surprise is exactly how the dsmv describes gender dysphoria as!
The disconnect between your agab and you is called gender incongruence
nope! understandable and valid mistake, though; lots of words or phrases sound like they absolutely should mean one thing when they actually mean something slightly different. gender dysphoria is“gender incongruence.”
- A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics
- A strong desire to be rid of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics
- A strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender
- A strong desire to be of the other gender
- A strong desire to be treated as the other gender
- A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender
and there’s a separate list of criteria for minors, but it mainly relies on sexist stereotypes (in typical dsm fashion) and also says nothing about “dysphoria” in the broader sense of the term.
you only have to hit two or more of those, too, not the whole list.
the disconnect between your assigned sex at birth and your gender identity is called gender dysphoria. it’s what makes a trans person trans.
