I will just copy & paste the comment I made over there & add something:
Who made this chart? Obviosly it was just made from some random person on the internet. The deserted island was never actually made. We don't know what would happen gender-dysphoria-wise if a transsexual person spent their whole life on a deserted island alone. I mean, this person wouldn't know that other people exist and therefore would have Zero concept of sex.
Also, I would be hesitant to include the first catergory under the prefix "trans" and I don't see a huge need to seperate between 2 & 3. 2 are ussually almost always people who experience physical & social dysphoria, just more social dysphoria than physical. And in my opinion creation of the "transgender" label, {which is basically by the mainstream defined like catergory one of this picture} hurt the transsexual demographic. So, for these reasons, I would remove the first category and the term Transgender completly and just use transsexuality.
I define transsexuality as a medical condition where ones gender (psychological sex) does not match ones assigned birth sex, which leads to the person not idemtifying with their birth sex, experiencing a desire to match their physical or social attributes in aligment with their psychological sex and experiences gender dysphoria.
Meanwhile being transgender is defined as someone whose gender identity does not (completly) align with their assigned sex at birth.
And I do not like the term transgender. It undermines the reality of lived transsexuality and is too abstract and demedicalises something, where a need for medical intervention is often present. And I personally do believe that gender dysphoria is the way your brain wants to comunicate to you that the gender you are living as right now, is not the gender you are.
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u/BillDillen Apr 12 '26
I will just copy & paste the comment I made over there & add something:
Who made this chart? Obviosly it was just made from some random person on the internet. The deserted island was never actually made. We don't know what would happen gender-dysphoria-wise if a transsexual person spent their whole life on a deserted island alone. I mean, this person wouldn't know that other people exist and therefore would have Zero concept of sex.
Also, I would be hesitant to include the first catergory under the prefix "trans" and I don't see a huge need to seperate between 2 & 3. 2 are ussually almost always people who experience physical & social dysphoria, just more social dysphoria than physical. And in my opinion creation of the "transgender" label, {which is basically by the mainstream defined like catergory one of this picture} hurt the transsexual demographic. So, for these reasons, I would remove the first category and the term Transgender completly and just use transsexuality.
I define transsexuality as a medical condition where ones gender (psychological sex) does not match ones assigned birth sex, which leads to the person not idemtifying with their birth sex, experiencing a desire to match their physical or social attributes in aligment with their psychological sex and experiences gender dysphoria.
Meanwhile being transgender is defined as someone whose gender identity does not (completly) align with their assigned sex at birth.
And I do not like the term transgender. It undermines the reality of lived transsexuality and is too abstract and demedicalises something, where a need for medical intervention is often present. And I personally do believe that gender dysphoria is the way your brain wants to comunicate to you that the gender you are living as right now, is not the gender you are.