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Originally Posted by ianch99
As in many recent areas of disagreement, the lack of nuance is evident. There are many people who strongly believe that they are mis-gendered and go through tremendous personal trauma, counselling, medical treatments and invasive surgery to achieve the gender they fundamentally believe they belong to. These people are not "mental".
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They're not "mental" but they have a psychological disorder, that they should receive support and counselling for to try and navigate their way through it.
They should not be told and /or affirmed, off the bat, that yes you are definitely in the wrong body...oh and here's a load of drugs that will stop your sexual development, and here's a load of hormones that will change your body chemistry and as a finale, here's some surgery so we can irreversibly mutilate your body.
If someone with anorexia came into a doctors/ psychiatrists office, do you think the first words out their mouths would be "oh yes, you're definitely too fat, I suugest you lose more weight"?