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originally posted by: imjack
a reply to: onequestion
It's more specific than that, you could you know, use Wikipedia and learn things.
en.wikipedia.org...
is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation. It can also refer to a state of not being comfortable in one's current body, particularly in cases of gender dysphoria. Common reactions to dysphoria include emotional distress or indifference.
A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, occupational, or other important activities. An expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are not mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individual, as described above.
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: imjack
a reply to: onequestion
It's more specific than that, you could you know, use Wikipedia and learn things.
en.wikipedia.org...
I'd rather not use wikipedia to learn things.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: imjack
I'm reading clinical definition from verified sources and linking them here for everyone to read and your ignoring them.
The labeling of transgenderism as a psychiatric condition has the ironic effect of inducing psychological problems in transgendered individuals. This fuels the notion that a psychiatric disorder is at the heart of the condition, which influences the diagnostic coding and billing structure. Under the DSM-IV code, few health insurers in the United States cover the cost of hormonal replacement therapy. Mastectomies in FTMs, which cost $6,000 to $10,000, and genitoplasties (sex reconstructive surgery) in MTFs, which cost $15,000 to $25,000, are considered by almost all health insurers to be cosmetic surgeries on patients with a mental illness.
Spack said that stalling the start of puberty delays the development of physical characteristics that do not correspond to a person’s psychological self-perception.
“Post-medication, the patients give testimonies of better interactions in school, a better environment at home, and functioning a whole lot better,”
These people aren’t crazy,” Spack said. “It’s a medical condition.”
Gender dysphoria itself is not considered a mental illness any more than falling off a really tall building is a mental illness. It's more of a body illness. But it can cause significant distress, just like falling off a building can cause significant distress. When someone pulls you back from falling off the building, this will cure the significant distress. When someone with gender dysphoria gets to live as the gender they identify with, this will cure the significant distress. Unfortunately, nothing cures the significant distress of schizophrenia - you need meds constantly to function.
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
a reply to: InTheLight
No medical doctors do not disagree. That is why it is in the The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
WPATH has established internationally accepted Standards of Care (SOC) for the treatment of gender identity disorders.
Mission to promote evidence based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy, and respect in transgender health. Vision to bring together diverse professionals dedicated to developing best practices and supportive policies worldwide that promote health, research, education, respect, dignity, and equality for transgender, transsexual, and gender-variant people in all cultural settings.