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can i ask what's so bad about believing that "real" transgender people need to experience dysphoria in some way, shape, or form? -not trying to start anything bad here, genuine question- dysphoria can be anything from not identifying with your birth sex/gender and socially/mentally transitioning to physically feeling as if you are in the wrong body and need to medically transition, so i don't understand the whole "truscum" argument from both points, if you can get what i'm trying to say Because it erases and invalidates the trans people don't feel dysphoric. There are trans people who don't feel uncomfortable with their assigned gender, but feel that another gender - the gender they ID with, the gender that they are - is a better fit. There are trans people who don't feel uncomfortable with their body the way that it is, and thus choose not to change it. And there are also those who are okay with their body the way that is it, but want to change it because they feel that they would be more comfortable with it if it was different. There are trans people who are okay with being seen as and refered to as their assigned gender, but who feel that they'd be more comfortable being seen as or refered to as another gender - the gender that they ID with, the gender that they are Some would say that is dysphoria, but it's not okay to force that onto someone. If those people don't define themselves as dysphoric, if they don't think of themselves as experiencing dysphoria, it is not okay to try to force them to call themselves dysphoric. It is not okay to say "oh, but you're really dysphoric, even if you don't want to call it that It's not okay to push labels onto other people against their will Not to mention that there are trans people who have neurodivergences that literally prevent them from feeling dysphoria. Consider how common alexithymia is among Autistic people, for example. Then recognise that at the same time, Autistic people are statistically far more likely to be trans than allistic (non-autistic) people. And then, finally, most importantly, recognise the ableism in telling neurodivergent people that their genders and their transness is not real just because they don't experience their feelings and emotions the same way you do Then there's also the trans people who used to be dysphoric, but who have transitioned to the poirt where they no longer feel dysphoric. It's not okay to tell those people that their transness is no longer valid. (And don't start with the "oh, but I meant you have to be dysphoric or you have to have been dysphoric in the past!" because that is not what you said. That is never what you people say. You say have to be dysphoric". Always.) And there are probably many, many more examples that could be given for why the "you have to be dysphoric to be trans" argument is bad. Because trans people are so, so, so vastly varied, there is going to be things and points of view that I have not been able to think of or remember to put in this post. But ultimately, it's defining transness by suffering. It's saying "you must be this miserable to be trans". And I hope you can understand the inherent transphobia in that.

Why "you must be dysphoric to be trans" is bullshit.


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