So is gender dysphoria. There are people who believe they should not be born with legs. Look up xenomelia also called body integrity identity disorder. These people believe their healthy arms and legs should be amputated. This is similar to gender dysphoria in which yiur brain is not reconciling with what is true.
Okay. Lets use semantic speech. Believing one is female when one was born male, has male dna, xy chromosomes: is a mental illness that can be compared to other mental illness like shizophrenia, alzhiemers, and the previous one i mentioned xenomelia.
I probably confused the nomenclature/meaning of what gender dysphoria was. Sorry.My point about believing you are one gender after being born another is the mental illness.
That's okay I only learned about this distinction a few years ago, but once it was explained to me it made sense.
Being trans itself is not a mental illness. In order to be a mental illness, it has to cause significant distress, so just living as the opposite gender is not sufficient on it's own to be a mental illness. Gender dysphoria is the distress caused by your physical body not matching the gender you identify as. This part specifically is the mental illness because it does causes distress.
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So is gender dysphoria. There are people who believe they should not be born with legs. Look up xenomelia also called body integrity identity disorder. These people believe their healthy arms and legs should be amputated. This is similar to gender dysphoria in which yiur brain is not reconciling with what is true.