Florida education officials on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against state college employees who violate a new law barring them and students from using restrooms or changing facilities for a gender other than the one assigned at birth.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say with 100% conviction that ‘cis’ definitely applies to people with Klinefelter’s. I actually used it without much consideration in this instance. While on one hand it is a medical condition similar to being trans, I don’t know if it necessarily creates dysphoria that prompts transition. My impression is that Klinefelter’s doesn’t effect a person’s alignment with their assigned at birth gender.
I could be completely wrong though, I don’t know much about the experience of having Klinefelter’s, it’s just my suspicion is that it seems to be in the same family as being trans, but doesn’t necessarily effect a person’s neurological make-up the way being trans does, just some of their other sex characteristics.
Klinefelter syndrome occurs when a person who is assigned male at birth is born with an extra x chromosome. Most people with the condition are cisgender boys or men.
Being trans is not a medical condition, although many trans people have gender dysphoria, which is psychological distress a person may have due to identifying with a different gender than the one that they were assigned at birth.
Huh? Being trans is absolutely a medical condition. Many people die without appropriate treatment. Trans people are treated seriously by medical professionals because it’s recognized as a legitimate medical need that cannot be resolved through therapy or socialization/conversion therapy. It’s unclear what you’re saying here, that it’s a just social figment or something?
I’d go further, and say that anything that needs “just” therapy, is also a medical condition.
The mentality of “as long as it lets you work, it doesn’t matter whether you suffer or not” is pretty inhumane, IMHO.
In a sense, yeah. Though things like trauma and PTSD are caused by experiences, where as being trans is probably more akin to being intersex. But yeah, no argument that mental health should be treated as seriously as physical health. Many societies fall short in treating either as particularly important.
Being trans itself is not a medical condition. It just means that someone identifies with a gender that is different than the one that was assigned at birth. There isn’t any medical diagnosis or treatment required for someone to be considered a trans person. Many trans people do have gender dysphoria and that is what we receive treatment for.