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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
Your arrogance that you'd assume to know about the trans condition is telling. You probably should try to speculate on others personal experiences.
Your attachment to the body aspect of trans people is telling. Trans people literally experience life as the opposite sex of their bodies. They have looked at trans brains and they more generally reflect the brains of the gender they say they are as opposed to their genitalia. What's most important for trans people is to get treated as the gender they are, and be able to interact with people as the gender they are. Hormone treatment are as much needed for the mental changes as the physical changes. They've been shown to reduce anxiety and depression in trans people.
Most trans live life actively opposed to their trans condition. Nobody wants to be trans. Most do everything in their power to change it. It's something you cannot control. Like anything else intrinsic to humans, it comes up no matter what the trans person does. Their gender is an instrinc part of their identity.
I like the idea that you can't ask trans people how they feel about gender dysphoria treatments because they'd be biased. Your unwillingness to let trans people explain themselves is telling in how you view them.
To compare it to body dysmorphia is stupid, stupid, stupid. Stop doing it. I will repeat that gender dysphoria is only partly about having the wrong body, there are many other aspects that also deeply negatively affect trans people.
Please just start listening to trans people. You do not know better than they do.
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They don't though, that is the whole point of body dysmorphia, in the sufferers mind they are utterly convinced that their body is wrong and they need to change it, an anorexic on there death bed weighing 70 pounds utterly believes, feels and sees themselves as grossly fat and over weight, someone with BIID absoloutly believes that their leg or arm is not part of their body to the extent that they will lie down on a railway track and let a train cut it off, it is in no way different to a transgendered persons feelings.