• trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So much so it becomes an overwhelming preoccupation out of a perceived flaw that needs to be corrected. Otherwise why do it at all? Why undergo surgery if you’re satisfied and comfortable with how you are presently?

    But Gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia are different. Affirming a persons gender and more importantly transition does successfully treat it, while affirming BDD does not do so, that’s why the treatments are different.

    We don’t treat cancer with chemo because “that’s what you do with cancer,” we do so because it’s an effective treatment.

    You are just dogmatically rejecting a form of effective treatment for an issue for some reasons. (Gee, I wonder what kind of skeletons are in that closet.).

    TL;DR you’re a silly little guy