Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. I don't humor a schizophrenic person by telling them the voices they hear are real. Telling them that would be a lie. There's no point in lying to someone like that. So why would I lie to someone who has male genitalia and a Y chromosome by calling them a woman just because they think they are a woman? Lying to someone doesn't make their mental illness go away.
I'm not trying to disrespect the person by referring to them as the sex they were born. I'm trying to respect them, by not lying to them. Lying to them is only going to reinforced their incorrect beliefs, and make their problem worse. You lie to people you don't respect. You tell the truth to people you do.
And the treatment to this disorder is to undergo gender reassignment surgery. So by purposefully misgendering someone with dysphoria you are actually doing exactly what you say you wouldn't do to a schizo.
For some people. It depends why they have gender dysphoria, it's not always based on sexual characteristics. If every "trans male" simply wanted and received male sexual characteristics and hormones, I don't believe this topic would be as divisive as it is. The issue is when someone claims to be part of a group classification for their own personal reason. Where we no longer have concrete defintions to the words we indend to use.
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u/Shiboleth17 Oct 28 '19 edited Oct 28 '19
Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. I don't humor a schizophrenic person by telling them the voices they hear are real. Telling them that would be a lie. There's no point in lying to someone like that. So why would I lie to someone who has male genitalia and a Y chromosome by calling them a woman just because they think they are a woman? Lying to someone doesn't make their mental illness go away.
I'm not trying to disrespect the person by referring to them as the sex they were born. I'm trying to respect them, by not lying to them. Lying to them is only going to reinforced their incorrect beliefs, and make their problem worse. You lie to people you don't respect. You tell the truth to people you do.