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Topic	Are you accepting and supportive of transgender people?
Esrac 09/04/17 8:21:58 PM #147:	Tmk posted... Just in general to people who say "changing yourself to something you're not because you feel a different way": What are we? I mean people. Are we a body, or are we a mind? Why is it you think if there's a dispute between the body and the mind, the body should take precedence? Isn't the mind what we are? The brain can malfunction. As the case with people who feel their body is "wrong" because they have all working limbs, so they want to get some amputated. Or people who are bipolar or schizophrenic. We don't just write those people off as "who they are". We try to treat their mental disorder through therapy and/or medication. I don't think we should regard people with Gender Dysphoria much differently. As long as hormone therapy and surgery are the most effective ways to treat them, fine. But I don't think we should stop trying to learn and repair whatever has gone wrong in their brain to cause the dysphoria between their actual body and their mind's self-image. --- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esrac <cite>Esrac posted [p:886028894] in Are you ac... [t:75740046]...</cite> <quote><cite>Tmk posted...</cite> <quote>Just in general to people who say "changing yourself to something you're not because you feel a different way": What are we? I mean people. Are we a body, or are we a mind? Why is it you think if there's a dispute between the body and the mind, the body should take precedence? Isn't the mind what we are?</quote> The brain can malfunction. As the case with people who feel their body is "wrong" because they have all working limbs, so they want to get some amputated. Or people who are bipolar or schizophrenic. We don't just write those people off as "who they are". We try to treat their mental disorder through therapy and/or medication. I don't think we should regard people with Gender Dysphoria much differently. As long as hormone therapy and surgery are the most effective ways to treat them, fine. But I don't think we should stop trying to learn and repair whatever has gone wrong in their brain to cause the dysphoria between their actual body and their mind's self-image. --- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esrac</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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