Is being trans a mental illness?

Is being a transsexual and or transgender a mental illness? Discuss.

(Disclosure): I mean mental illness in the same sense as any mental illness such as ADD, ADHD, OCD, all the way to schizophrenia. I’m not using the term mental illness as in a brainless nut job.

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calicuz · 51-55, M

No, sexuality has less to do with brain function and more to do with inner soul and feelings

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@calicuz It's better to be described as transgender and usually has nothing to do with your sexuality but the sense of who you are

SunSurf · 46-50, F

@calicuz took the words right out of my mouth... I agree 100%

calicuz · 51-55, M

@MartinTheFirst

Hence the lack of brain function and more to do with the inner workings of the soul.... yes?

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@calicuz brain, soul, yes. However all mental illnesses are the cause of faulty brain functions, so your description applies yet not quite in the way you think it does?

calicuz · 51-55, M

@MartinTheFirst

I separate the brain and the soul, they work independently but together like the heart and the liver.

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@calicuz Interesting. Where do you think the soul lives?

SunSurf · 46-50, F

@MartinTheFirst the soul is the very core of the persons being, it lives in thy true self , your very essance of being..

calicuz · 51-55, M

@MartinTheFirst

Deep in the body on a spiritual level

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@SunSurf @calicuz So it's not physical?

calicuz · 51-55, M

@MartinTheFirst

No, I don't believe it is

SunSurf · 46-50, F

@MartinTheFirst you lost me... are you asking if the soul is on the outside?

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@SunSurf .-.

SunSurf · 46-50, F

@MartinTheFirst I am only stating what I as a person believe, but I think if your true to yourself, then it reflects on your soul inner and outwards...