if you were mentally healthy, you wouldn’t be tortured by the existence of your body , and you wouldn’t feel the need to medically or cosmetically alter your otherwise healthy body . idk why it’s so hard for them to admit that yes dysphoria is a mental illness … maybe because it clashes with the “ being trans is innate and something you’re born as ” bs ?
either way , recognizing a mental illness for what it is isn’t ableism at all . if anything , it’s wayy more ableist to treat the label “ mental illness ” as something degrading and to deny the real harm that conditions like dysphoria cause
Its not defined as a mental illness scientifically, so while dysphoria is a condition whats the point of just making up things to fit your narrative. I dont think the person in the original screenshot is correct either and their comment was equally weird, conflating ableism with “transphobia” when the person calling gender dysphoria a mental issue is clearly not intending to be transphobic.
In the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), published by the World Health Organization, there is no entry for gender dysphoria in the mental health section. Instead, the ICD-11 has an entry for Gender Incongruence in the sexual health section. Gender incongruence is “characterised by a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual’s experienced gender and the assigned sex, which often leads to a desire to transition, in order to live and be accepted as a person of the experienced gender, through hormonal treatment, surgery, or other health care services to make the individual’s body align, as much as desired and to the extent possible, with the experienced gender.”
