Being Transsexual: An Identity or Medical Condition?

[EchelonHunt]

Another topic!

I feel like these should go in Politics? Please let me know if it is unsuitable here~ On a roll...!

Being a transsexual, is it a way or life or a medical condition to be treated?

I know this is another one of those heavily debated topics but I am curious to hear what you all think!

I think being transsexual is an identity and that it is merely the gender dysphoria that needs to be treated as it can cause distress and worse case scenario, suicide if left untreated.

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It can be both.

[Taka]

it's can be both. either or, both at the same time, depends on the person.
the norwegian harry benjamin resource center rejects transsexual as an identity and only uses it as a medical diagnose.
it feels extremely invalidating and exclusive.

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Dec 1, 2014 19:33:06 GMT 8 Taka said:

it's can be both. either or, both at the same time, depends on the person.
the norwegian harry benjamin resource center rejects transsexual as an identity and only uses it as a medical diagnose.
it feels extremely invalidating and exclusive.

It certainly does and has everything in the world to do with why I did a complete end run around Harry Benjamin Standards. In retrospect I probably would have not been diagnosed as trans but at this point it is a moot observation.

[Edge]

I think it's a biological condition that sometimes causes pain (dysphoria) that needs to be treated (which would be the medical aspect), but that doesn't make it any less of an identity. There are lots of biological things, especially in the brain although we don't understand it all yet, that contribute to our identities.

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My identity is that of a woman. The medical condition is that my body looks like that of a man. So... I view my own transsexuality as a medical condition.

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I think it ultimately comes down to a developmental condition. You can identify as transsexual, but why? I have an autism disorder, but I don't identify as an autistic. I identify simply as me. What one person calls an affliction I call a gift. These "conditions" make us who we are.

[Leena]

I personally want to find a way to live life as I am and not be "cured"…this position could change if I don't find that way in the near future. I don't think anything really is wrong with me, but I don't understand why society continues to reward "masculinity" when that is exactly all that is wrong with society. My problem is with society, not with my biological maleness. I have never had any interest in being an overly aggressive, misogynistic, macho man…but I also am still scratching my head at the many women that find this attractive and not utterly repulsive as I do...

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Jan 22, 2015 14:24:14 GMT 8 Leena said:

I personally want to find a way to live life as I am and not be "cured"…this position could change if I don't find that way in the near future. I don't think anything really is wrong with me, but I don't understand why society continues to reward "masculinity" when that is exactly all that is wrong with society. My problem is with society, not with my biological maleness. I have never had any interest in being an overly aggressive, misogynistic, macho man…but I also am still scratching my head at the many women that find this attractive and not utterly repulsive as I do...

High-functioning autistic people aren't interested in a cure for autism, either. Even though it causes problems in the social and professional worlds it still makes us who we are. Autism Speaks — who doesn't have one autistic person on their board — claims to seek that cure. It's almost eugenic. If I knew that a treatment existed to re-wire my brain to neurotypical I would refuse. How do I know such a treatment wouldn't affect my intelligence, or my imagination, or my personality? Things like that are always trial-and-error, and never really reach perfection. The same thing goes with how I identify genderwise. If there was a "cure" would it not interfere with these things, as well? I will take the hardships over what could very well become a dull and depressed version of myself. Neuro-diversity is what it is. We don't want cures; we want recognition and acceptance.

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I am DES womb transition so that is that, and I am classic scenario with it.

But a cure? Cure what? Create an assembly line of hairy Neanderthals and Barbie doll fuck me dolls?

Cure that, not me.

Trinity

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In my case, I have body dysphoria that I wish to cure. Society didn't cause this in my case and, quite honestly, I wouldn't let society's opinions dictate who I am anyway. To each their own though.
Being overly aggressive, misogynistic, and macho is not gender. There is no biological reason for misogyny. Aggressiveness does have biological components (genetics, for example), but they are not limited to gender.

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