• raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    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?

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      cannot be resolved through therapy or socialization/conversion therapy

      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.

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        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.

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      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.