This causes extreme gender dysphoria, a sense of disconnection and disgust towards the body. Trans people, they believe, are people born with the brains of one of the major sexes, but all (or most) of the external characteristics of the other major sex. Transmedicalists believe that trans identity is a biological condition that falls under the banner of intersex. Transgender identity as a medical condition "Social factors are often key in the experience of gender dysphoria," notes the Gender Identity Clinic. The World Health Organization also notes that distress is common but not necessary.
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The American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Canadian Paedeatric Society, World Medical Association, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and other groups and experts explicitly state that not all transgender people experience dysphoria. As early as the year 2000, researchers have noted that distress is associated with being transgender, but the evidence doesn't show that trans people always experience distress. Some say that mild discomfort counts as dysphoria, whereas others have stricter criteria.Įxperts have disagreed for over a decade.
Many transmeds believe that gender dysphoria is necessary in order to be transgender. They always seem to have super accepting families and get started on horomones/therapy right away," confessed one transmedicalist.
"I feel sort of petty and awful but I wonder if I am sort of jealous of some transtrenders. They see transtrenders as relatively privileged cis people who are appropriating the trans identity. So transmeds feel contemptuous of people who identify as trans but don't seem to lead horrible lives. Transmedicalists may see gender transition as a necessary evil and the only way out of an already-cruel existence, other than suicide. According to a transmedicalist viewpoint, being transgender is a medical condition that causes great suffering. Transmeds believe, fundamentally, that there is nothing positive about being transgender.
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