Jiminy Christmas, Genbu, chill out. Sooner posted an intolerant, disrespectful comment about people with gender dysphoria, which was deleted. That really should be end of.
Iâm not gonna argue with you over something I donât care about anyway
You win buddy
Thank you for adding your personal experience.
I didnât see the post that was deleted, so Iâm the dark as far as thatâs concerned.
Iâm glad that you were able to get treatments for transition.
Thanks! I didnât see the post either, typical transphobic rhetoric is my guess.
Sooner, knock it off, now. This is exactly the same kind of talk that homosexuals had to deal with, and sometimes still do.
To play devilâs advocate there has been some talk of transsexualism as a âschizophrenia spectrum disorderâ . In posting the links I am not saying I agree with this position but only showing that some professionals have had it,and perhaps still do.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1991-31183-001
I am someone who amongst several diagnoses was once diagnosed with schizophrenia with disorder of gender identity.
At one point I was very persistent I wanted a sex change.
Over a period of years the insistence lessened. Reasons for that may include (1) that it was a delusional obsession that went as I became less acutely ill (2) a defensive mechanism to defend me from the stress of the likelihood that the go ahead for gender reassignment would never occur due to my psychiatric problems.
(3) It was an interest stemming from autistic like behaviour that developed an obsessional quality.
I think itâs both possible to be gender dysphoric and experience psychosis. Itâs also possible to mistakenly think your are transsexual as part of a delusional process. Proof of the latter would be such thoughts disappearing with the adminstration of antipsychotics.
I think if you are gender dysphoric and experience psychosis then the biggest barrier would be how the illness affects your ability to function socially. If you have good social functioning then the greater likelihood youâll be able to successfully transition.
The problem is how to help those who are gender dysphoric but have poor social functioning suggesting transition may be problematic.
This would almost certainly have been the case with me , and is probably true of a number of people who may be both gender dysphoric and experience psychosis
This link will explain the criteria for gender-reassignment surgery:
http://www.thetransgendercenter.com/index.php/prerequisites.html
I had some idea of that before. It doesnât suggest someone is not gender dysphoric but rather the grounds for giving the go ahead for surgery.
I think with my social difficulties I would have had problems with the âtrue lifeâ test irrespective of whether I was gender dysphoric or not.
Yes, this is true.
I just wanted to point out that before any forms of treatment for transition (hormone therapy, etc.) is the criterion of a long period of emotional stability.
I think it would depend on how you defined âemotional stabilityâ. Being gender dysphoric itself could well affect a person on an emotional level.
diction is confusing enough. a little more punctuation. please.
just kidding⌠(sniffle)
Edit: okay, I read it slower and I understood it gramatically. now Iâm grabbing my dictionary for round 2
True.
This brings us to DSM-5, which lists Gender Dysphoria as a mental disorder. The criteria is too narrow, and makes nearly everyone who is transgender as having a mental disorder.
Weâve been down this road before with the DSM as to homosexuality.
One of the sections of this giant book I read had to do with gender dysphoria/trans kids and there was this one doctor who claimed this high success rate for keeping kids as their birth gender, but when you looked at them as adults they were all depressed and many had committed suicide. So just because they donât change their gender it doesnât necessarily mean youâre solving the problem.