Totally Transmed™

Dysphoria can look different for each individual person; it can manifest as deep-seated disgust of one's own body, depression, dissociation, or in a multitude of other forms. However, the thing that links every transgender person is the fact that they are uncomfortable with physical characteristics of their birth sex, or are happy with those characteristics being changed. Not all transgender people are fully binary. And please note that gender dysphoria/incongruence is not reliant on the diagnosis of a doctor.

People who are content with their sexual characteristics are cisgender.

This statement is often said as an argument against transmedicalism-- the idea that stating that transgender people have a medical condition somehow promotes trans suffering. But that's a gross misrepresentation.

There are two aspects to how this rhetoric is incorrect. Firstly, it posits that any person with gender dysphoria/incongruence merely hates themself, and that they simply need to accept their body as it is and stop complaining. However, hatred of one’s body does not translate to hatred of the self. Saying that trans people can simply think away dysphoria implies that dysphoria is purely a mental shortcoming, even though there are multiple scientific studies proving that idea wrong. There is a significant neurological basis for gender dysphoria-- one that cannot be thought away.