historically transgender people existed prior to the development of gender dysphoria as a diagnoseable medical pathology/phenomenon. regardless of whether the medicalization of transgender people was created due to good intentions or not, historically there are and were huge numbers of transgender people being denied medical and legal transition services due to not meeting whichever set of diagnostic standards was being applied to them. and i say “whichever set” because these diagnoses have changed over time and are different in different regions of the world. my conclusion based on this ongoing crisis of transgender care is that medical and legal transition services should be offered on an informed consent basis. the way to conceptualize transgender people has to either change, or we must abolish the diagnostic criterion of gender dysphoria.
of course one may ask “but what is your opinion separate from how we are treated in the world?” and to that i would say, any opinions on transgender people that aren’t based on our reality are not interesting or necessary for me.
i’m not really interested in dissecting the psychology of transgender identity and finding whatever kernel of gender is the most crucial variable for our genders.i don’t care to find out whether being transgender is genetic or epigenetic or due to events in early childhood or whatever. that’s not important to me. a person’s identity should be respected regardless of whether it’s medically diagnosed or not. i do not want the transgender community to try and mimic the medical industry, non-professionally applying diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder or transsexualism to one another and ourselves.
we should not follow the lead of the institutions that have perpetrated our abuse. that continue to perpetrate that abuse.
when i meet another transgender person, i treat them as their self-expressed gender.
i report to people that i am a woman. i should not have to do ANYTHING other than that to be respected as a woman.i have also written another post about this exact topic recently on my sideblog i made for compiling info for transgender women & transfeminine people. here is the link to that post:
https://transfeminformative.tumblr.com/post/173803576799/hi-you-dont-have-to-answer-this-if-you-dont
You absolutely do need dysphoria to be trans? How else are you going to legitimately “decide” (not implying you make a choice) you’re trans if you don’t.. feel any reason to dislike being cis. Like, it sounds like tomfoolery but I’d like to know your take on it because. I’m confused
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