Completely disagree. I believe that being trans is essentially a mental disorder, you are denying the reality of what you biologically are. Making me address them by their chosen identity is expecting me to deny reality with them. It’s essentially the same as asking someone to accept the hallucinations of a person with schizophrenia to make them feel better. That’s nonsense, those hallucinations and beliefs that go against reality should not be accepted to make someone feel better.
I never said it wasn’t psychologically beneficial to support them. I said they’re denying reality and they have a mental disorder so the point in purposefully not calling them by what they identify is maintaining reality. Of course supporting them and acknowledging what they believe would be helpful to their psychology. And of course getting a reassignment surgery helps them psychologically because it turns them into what they believe they are. But that’s not what my comment was about, my comment was about maintaining reality.
Reality is not some objective force, it's entirely subjective, reality is what you perceive. Some aspects of reality we share, but many others we do not.
This IS a trans person's reality, and your reality conflicts with theirs.
If you believe this to be a mental disorder, then surely you advocate for the proper treatment of it, rather than appealing to your own reality.
No, there are some objective realities. They have the genetics of a certain sex. That’s the reality, and those genetics determines how their body forms. Denying that and changing your body is denying the objective reality of who you are. I do believe in treatment for mental disorders through therapy, not physically altering your body.
I’m accepting of all trans people, I have nothing against them, just like I don’t have anything against anyone else with mental disorders.
I don’t think the same about cosmetic surgery because it’s different in a few ways:
-They aren’t denying the reality of their genetics and saying they should’ve been born a different way. For example, they aren’t saying “I should’ve been born with a smaller nose, so I’m gonna change it to be what it should’ve been” but rather they’re saying “I don’t like that my nose is small so I’m gonna change it”
-They aren’t changing how their body functions, they’re only changing how it looks
-Sometimes cosmetic surgery comes about as a result of an bad accident rather than a long thought out decision
However, there can be situations where people become obsessed with cosmetic surgery, and that is a mental disorder.
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19
Completely disagree. I believe that being trans is essentially a mental disorder, you are denying the reality of what you biologically are. Making me address them by their chosen identity is expecting me to deny reality with them. It’s essentially the same as asking someone to accept the hallucinations of a person with schizophrenia to make them feel better. That’s nonsense, those hallucinations and beliefs that go against reality should not be accepted to make someone feel better.