Anyone that tells you being transgender is a mental health disorder, is lying through their teeth. It's so MUCH more complex than that. "Being transgender is not a mental illness. But people who are transgender face unique challenges, such as gender dysphoria and discrimination, which can affect their mental health. Getting support and assistance from a qualified provider can bring healing and help you live a healthier, more fulfilling life." src: Cleveland Clinic https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/21963-transgender-ensuring-mental-health #LGBTQ
@PaganMother It's no where near a mental health issue. It's related to a divergence in development in utero between the brain and body.
Since people are their consciousness by and large, its much more efficacious and logical to bring the body into sync with the mind.
Otherwise you're trying to literally kill who that person is.
So much for pro life.
@NiveusLepus It's pretty much close to the same category of mental health as autism and other conditions are listed as. Not so much a disorder but rather a different "brain wiring" that sets us apart from the typical neuro "setup".
@PaganMother Persecuting pople for not falling within an accepted mean is how we got the salem witch trials.
I find it alarming that there always seems to be a legion waiting in the wings to pound existence into whatever mold THEY deem appropriate.
One of the ultimate forms of tyranny and control is denying someone the right to be themselves.
Thing is, one of the elements that kept me quiet growing up, is that I didn't want to be "fixed"
@NiveusLepus Oh exactly why so many of us neurokin are dead set against the eugenic practices and studies of AutismSpeaks and other such groups.
@PaganMother I'm very ADHD, and very much in the neurodivergent camp, not that I'm really hiding that. ^_^
A friend of mine is almost certain I cross over into the spectrum, but I dunno. I am and have always been a quirky beast and it took much of my childhood on into my 20s to realize that I could be me, even though it could and can be terrifying.
@PaganMother The reason why its terrifying isn't anything native to me, but the way greater society responds to the different.
@NiveusLepus I grew up knowing that I was neurodiverse, I was always treated differently for my slow learning in math and my near obsession with reading anything I can get my hands on as well as my social awkwardness in my younger years. These days I'm less awkward and more overt about being myself in spite of the weird looks and remarks people give me about it. I'm a natural weird, I embrace it.
@NiveusLepus I find true authenticity is an active of defiance and courage in this day and age, and I fully support anyone trying to live their authentic selves.
@PaganMother I was not meant to live in a cage, of my own construction or anyone else's not withstanding.
We are here to live and grow, not conform. That is universal to all of us, I feel.
@NiveusLepus Truth is, and this is something founded on personal observations, we have quite a few transfolk that are also neurodiverse, majority late diagnosed autistic.