Gender dysphoria is a mental illness that causes real suffering. All types of dysphoria account for less than 1% of the populat

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Question.

With all due respect, guess what group is also less than 1% of the population?

Is it those who believe the earth is flat? Is it those who were born with a third nipple? Is it the number of people who have climbed Mt Everest?

It's not schizophrenia, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder or OCD. Those are all at or above 1%.

It might be billionaires.

They are the TOP 1% 💰

I was going to say trans people. And oh look! The same who suffer gender dysphoria

You're not paying attention to what is happening around the country. There are tons more claiming to be trans than ever before. Mostly it is high school aged kids.

It is NOT the same percent as those suffering with gender dysphoria.

Maybe not, but they are not significantly enough apart to support your claim

You're not paying attention to what is happening all around us.

I am paying attention. But I think this is the result of the stigmatization around trans folks starting to dwindle. It will appear to increase drastically at first, but level out in time. The same thing happened with left-handedness

The OP states the number of persons suffering from gender dysphoria is far less than the number professing to be "trans".

They are not equal numbers.

Maybe not, but they are not significantly enough apart to support their claim

It is a dwindling fad.

It will be over soon.

It’s not a fad. It’s never been a fad.

The only fad here is trans hate. By next election cycle, you’ll forget why you hated us in the first place

Really? So then middle and high school kids all over the country just woke up one day with gender dysphoria? More so than at any other time in history? Did the government put something on our water supply? How did this happen?

There are a lot of woke liberal parents who, if their prepubescent child even thought for a second that they wanted to be the opposite gender, would be scheduling puberty blockers and surgery for their kids. That is a horrifying tragedy because many of those kids, once they get a little older want to be their birth gender but now their bodies are all screwed up.

The overwhelming majority of prepubescent kids who say they want to be the opposite gender forget all about that once puberty hits.

Gender dysphoria is not a fad. It is a serious mental illness with an unfortunately high suicide rate. That rate doesn't diminish even with surgery. I needs to be treated as a mental illness and treated by qualified psychiatrists.

Trans-genderism, excluding those with gender dysphoria, is just a fad. It is a way to get attention or rebel against parents.

I agree that gender dysphoria is serious and needs to be treated as such. However, what you’re talking about does not happen on the scale you claim.

That being said, I do see where you’re coming from with mental conditions, disabilities, and illnesses being faked for clout. I’ve seen that happen with things like autism and DID, and it is quite the travesty. Having said that, I don’t think being transgender falls under that, as one does not necessarily need to have gender dysphoria to be trans. Yes, children should not be forced into any gender they don’t want to be, which is why irreversible treatments are seldom given to minors.

What I’m trying to say is, I understand your misgivings, and agree with some of them as well, but most of your argument feels like an overreaction

I'm just going by what I see and what people tell me and what is reported in the news. And I am always shocked by hearing from nearly everyone that they know someone at school and even college who is either pretending to be trans-gender or some gender they made up. One guy was telling me of a guy in his college who was constantly changing his non-binary gender to something else, along with his name. And if you did not automatically know what his new gender or name was he would get angry.

I heard of two girls in high school were not very pretty and got persecuted for that so they decided that they would be trans-gender and be boys. After they did that they got all sorts of respect from other students.

It is stuff like that, that says this is just a cry for attention or acceptance. It is just a fad.

When they kids get out in the real world and see how the world works, some will insist that others play along because they have the government, the media and Democrat Party on their side. Other's will realize that it's time to stop the charade and straighten up.

The National Health Services (NHS) of England, the country’s publicly funded healthcare provider, has warned that most children who identify as transgender are experiencing a “transient phase.” The statement is reflective of “evidence that in most cases gender incongruence does not persist into adolescence,” the NHS report states.

Facts!

Pesky

Indeed

It is. It was. It will not be once it fades into obscurity.

What do you find hateful about that?

What I find hateful here is you. You’ve willingly chugged kool aid because you can’t handle the truth. And when your stone-faced, snarky facade fades, you lash out like a child because you don’t know how to be wrong. It eats at the fabric shreds that you call a soul until there is nothing left but the crumbs of the one you once were.

For shame.

Read the content of your remarks and compare with the content of mine and you will see who is being hateful.

For shame right back at you.

I was the one who extended the olive branch all that time ago. You rejected it. And maybe if you could read your own writing, you’d see your own kool-aid laced venom.

I treat others the way they tell me to treat them. You said you didn’t want my respect, so you don’t get it. And yes, I do have those screenshots of you want me to prove it. Again.

Why should I feel ashamed for YOUR actions?

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Your comments are hate speech directed towards the singled out me.

You have chosen me to be the victim of your projected anger as demonstrated by your tantrums that lack basic civility.

Do better lest hatred consumes you.

Oh, gee, why is it that you’re the only one I’m not civil too? Is it because you are a genuinely unpleasant person who
literally told me they don’t want my respect?

No, it must be me and my woke anger issues because you’re the paragon of intelligence and humility.

The lack of self-awareness is baffling.