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| Topic | Are you accepting and supportive of transgender people? |
| Esrac 09/05/17 2:09:37 AM #209: | Tmk posted... Callixtus posted...I think it is wrong to inflict self harm in order to match a perverse self-image. Saying that the cause of a disorder is probably due to a malfunction in a specific body part does not make a dichotemous distinction between that body part and the rest of the body. We wouldn't set up some dichotemy between heart and body if we're talking about a heart malfunction like stenosis, so I don't separate brain and body when we talk about malfunctions in the brain. Typically speaking, trans people have otherwise healthy bodies. Normal, functional genitals, secondary sex characteristics, etc. Everything, more or less, is working as it should. Except for the dysphoria they feel regarding their actual physical body not aligning with how their brain seems to tell them it should be. That is, their bodies aren't fucked up: they're healthy and functioning properly as you'd expect them to. Now, if we have healthy, functional bodies that are otherwise normal, but the person is experiencing a sense of dysphoria because it doesn't match the sex they feel they should be, what reason is there to believe the error is with the formation of an entirely healthy body and not with the brain's perception of that body? --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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