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I'm tired of people saying you don't need gender dysphoria.

IF YOU HAVE A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN SEX AND BIRTH GENDER? GUESS WHAT. YOU. ARE. TRANS. IF YOU FEEL LIKE SHIT OVER WHAT YOU WERE BORN AS AND WANT TO BE WHO YOU ARE INSIDE? YOU. ARE. TRANS.

YOU ARE NOT TRANS JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY SO. YOU ARE TRANS IF YOU HAVE GENDER DYSPHORIA. IT'S A PYSCHOLOGICAL DISORDER. IT ISN'T FUN, IT ISN'T CUTE, IT ISN'T SOMETHING YOU EVER WANT TO BE. BEING TRANS HURTS MENTALLY AND SOCIALLY, AND SOMETIMES PHYSICALLY. IT IS TAXING TO TELL PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE TRANS. IT COSTS MONEY TO UNDERGO HRT AND SURGERY IF YOU DO SO.

Being trans isn't fun. I'm fucking sick of tucutes ruining the community and overrunning it with "uwu u dont need GD to be trans! nya!! its so fun to be trans!!".

Also, here's a section from WHO's ICD 11 describing gender incongruence:

“Gender incongruence of adolescence and adulthood is characterized by a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual´s experienced gender and the assigned sex, as manifested by at least two of the following: 1) a strong dislike or discomfort with the one’s primary or secondary sex characteristics (in adolescents, anticipated secondary sex characteristics) due to their incongruity with the experienced gender; 2) a strong desire to be rid of some or all of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (in adolescents, anticipated secondary sex characteristics) due to their incongruity with the experienced gender; 3) a strong desire to have the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the experienced gender. The individual experiences a strong desire to be treated (to live and be accepted) as a person of the experienced gender. The experienced gender incongruence must have been continuously present for at least several months. The diagnosis cannot be assigned prior the onset of puberty. Gender variant behaviour and preferences alone are not a basis for assigning the diagnosis.” (ICD 11)

Gender Dysphoria (GD) is a diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fifth edition (DSM-V) produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). It replaces Gender Identity Disorder found in the DSM-IV and notes that while people may be trans their whole life, they often do not suffer from dysphoria constantly.

Gender Incongruence (GI) is a diagnosis from the International Classification of Diseases, eleventh edition (ICD-11) produced by the World Health Organisation and slated for full implementation by 2022. A version has been released to allow member states to prepare. Gender Incongruity replaces "Primary Transsexualism" found in the ICD-10.

Gender Incongruence has not replaced Gender Dysphoria as a diagnosis. Both are valid diagnoses in manuals produced by different organisations.

The version of HA60 you are quoting comes from an earlier version of the ICD 11 and has now been revised. It now requires two things:

Marked and persistent incongruence between experienced gender and assigned sex.

Onset of puberty. (See HA61 if this criteria is not met).

Gender dysphoria, on the other hand, is categorically distress. The DSM-V states:

Gender dysphoria diagnosis involves a difference between ones experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, and significant distress or problems functioning.

"1. A marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics."

"A strong desire to rid of one's primary and/or secondary sex characteristics."

"A strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender,"

"A strong desire to be of the other gender"

"A strong desire to be treated as the other gender,"

"A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reaction of the other gender"

I understand not ALL people deal with it for years like I have, but you still need to experience it for a period of time.

To be transgender is to experience gender incongruency, and which is, as you said, quote the ICD-11, "a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual's experienced gender and assigned sex".

Also, according to the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, "...it's sometimes known as gender incongruence."

And also, in the APA, sometimes the two are slashed together to infer they are the same thing.

I'm tired of people saying you don't need gender dysphoria.

IF YOU HAVE A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN SEX AND BIRTH GENDER? GUESS WHAT. YOU. ARE. TRANS. IF YOU FEEL LIKE SHIT OVER WHAT YOU WERE BORN AS AND WANT TO BE WHO YOU ARE INSIDE? YOU. ARE. TRANS.

YOU ARE NOT TRANS JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY SO. YOU ARE TRANS IF YOU HAVE GENDER DYSPHORIA. IT'S A PYSCHOLOGICAL DISORDER. IT ISN'T FUN, IT ISN'T CUTE, IT ISN'T SOMETHING YOU EVER WANT TO BE. BEING TRANS HURTS MENTALLY AND SOCIALLY, AND SOMETIMES PHYSICALLY. IT IS TAXING TO TELL PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE TRANS. IT COSTS MONEY TO UNDERGO HRT AND SURGERY IF YOU DO SO.

Being trans isn't fun. I'm fucking sick of tucutes ruining the community and overrunning it with "uwu u dont need GD to be trans! nya!! its so fun to be trans!!".

Also, here's a section from WHO's ICD 11 describing gender incongruence:

“Gender incongruence of adolescence and adulthood is characterized by a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual´s experienced gender and the assigned sex, as manifested by at least two of the following: 1) a strong dislike or discomfort with the one’s primary or secondary sex characteristics (in adolescents, anticipated secondary sex characteristics) due to their incongruity with the experienced gender; 2) a strong desire to be rid of some or all of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (in adolescents, anticipated secondary sex characteristics) due to their incongruity with the experienced gender; 3) a strong desire to have the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the experienced gender. The individual experiences a strong desire to be treated (to live and be accepted) as a person of the experienced gender. The experienced gender incongruence must have been continuously present for at least several months. The diagnosis cannot be assigned prior the onset of puberty. Gender variant behaviour and preferences alone are not a basis for assigning the diagnosis.” (ICD 11)

Counter-concept: Zim absolutely knows and thinks its the best thing ever (because he loves his Tallest, of course he does, even when they’re sending him to his death does he love them). He supports them wholeheartedly, to the point where he overzealously declares humans inferior for not having tall gay leaders.

Dib rolls his eyes and tells Zim good luck changing that. Zim proceeds to destroy the government and ends homophobia.

ok im back for a while! but like hhh

if youre not into PDA then stop here because im gonna gush and let my feelings out for my bf :) 

ZADR. IS. PEDOPHILIA. IT IS ILLEGAL AND DISGUSTING. Zim is 160 EARTH YEARS, which is around YOUNG ADULT AGE in IRKEN YEARS. Dib is TWELVE YEARS OLD.

I’m revisiting an old post here because it’s still a topic I think is important.

A lesbian is a woman who is solely attracted to women.

Someone who is nonbinary is not a woman. That’s what NONBINARY means.

I don’t care if you’re “connected to womanhood”. If you are nonbinary you are still a woman.

I swear to god if I see one more “nonbinary lesbian” say that they have a vagina that likes other vaginas I will cry. That’s practically a TERF rhetoric for christ sake! That’s both alienating trans people and making yourself look like a huge dick.

So that means they’re lesbians! It’s literally transphobic to say they’re not.

Ok but as a WLW who apparently does have a say in this

I Fully agree with OPs post and it’s not transphobic??

Lesbian == WOMAN attracted to WOMAN

I have an issue with this, mainly given that in my opinion, people should be allowed to use whichever pronouns and labels make them feel most comfortable. Saying somebody can’t use one because of the other, or can’t use one because of their gender, invalidates that. 

Given that labels do tend to have meanings, such as lesbian meaning, typically, attraction to women, then I’d assume that it doesn’t apply to you, as you’ve stated an attraction to men. However, it’s really not my business to say what you can and can’t use, as stated above. If you want to call yourself a lesbian, I’m not going to protest it, though it doesn’t fit with the way I define the word. 

My personal belief is that labels should be used in a way to make you comfortable, but not in a way that completely destroys their meaning. For me, lesbian means an attraction to women, typically from other women or fem-presenting or nonbinary people. It’s my bad, I should have made that more clear in my original reply.