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since Simpofthegoddess is deleting replies in his thread now

thought i would ask the question that he refused to allow on his trans thread and mental illness.

why is gender dysmorphia the only mental condition that people praise, encourage and support body mutilation as a form of treatment?
We do not encourage it anywhere else and all other mental conditions are treated with treating the mind.
Would you allow or encourage a schizophrenic person who has delusions that make him/her want to self harm? no, of course not.
Why is this any different?

this is not a anti trans thread before people come here with their fake outrage. Its a anti everyone thread. Those who actually support body mutilation as a form of treating a mental condition and certainly a anti you thread if you support this with children
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Torsten · 36-40, M
@LeopoldBloom sex reassignment surgery is not a easy process to get approved for. Hormone blockers and testosterone or estrogen are very easy to get though
@Torsten They may be easy to get in Norway and other European countries, but they're not easy to get here.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@LeopoldBloom that is just not true. Not going off a lot of trans and detransitioners themselves
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
Because Schizophrenia is easily treated with medication and has nothing to do with a severe phobia for your entire body. Schizophrenia is to be confused in what's real and what's not. For example my friend with Schizophrenia still asks if ET exists. He struggle to understand that what happens in a movie isn't all real. Doing surgery on his body would make zero difference. However some get electro shock therapy for it still.


Body dysmorphia is a phobia, as in severe fear. And to fear and feel constantly threaten by your own body is making most people with this condition suicidal.
They can go a therapeutic treatment they can get anxiety meds but that's rarely enough, so the most common help is surgery.

And it's not like you can just sign up and say "Hey, I wanna do a surgery cause I hate my body" it takes years of therapy and doctor evaluations and tests and you must turn 18 before this can even be an considered a future option. So anyone who are impulse thinking or just following a transition trend will not put up with the process, only those who actually need it will.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@Queendragonfly schizophrenia is not easily treated with medication. It can take a very long time to find the right doasge and type of antipsychotic medication that helps.

My point is when a schizophrenic person is having a delusion and wants to self harm due to it, nobody encourages and praises for that to happen yet with gender dysmorphia, that is exactly what happens.

gender dysmorphia is a mental condition. Not talking about body dysmorphia.

Surgery is only one aspect of it. Chemical transition is another. Again, if you're a adult. Knock yourself out but this thing does not just happen to adults. Its happening to more and more kids where adults are confusing them into making them think they're transgender and soon enough they are on puberty blockers and so on.

But getting back to gender dysmorphia again its the only mental condition that is treated any other way compared to other mental conditions.
I don’t have an issue with trans people. I do feel a level concern with the prevalence currently amount youth in particular as there is a social learning component to it at the moment. Which is probably going to make me sound horrible. But it’s just my observation. I do think there are sometimes other undiagnosed mental health issues at play. There are a lot of steps to go through to get any physical changes under 18 though. If you’re an adult then why should anyone else care 🤷‍♀️
Torsten · 36-40, M
@Notladylike as a adult, do as you please.
when children are involved, it should never be allowed.
JacksonBlue · 36-40, M
I know a couple of people who have had gender dysmorphia (female to male) and at least in the UK you have to go through a lot of steps before physical surgery.

That includes therapy and hormone treatments. only then can you get physically altered withthe waiting time for surgery lasting years.

There are quite a few other mental health issues that get turned into surgery. Mainly around unhappines at cosmetic appearance.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@JacksonBlue yes but those are steps towards the actual treatment would you not say?
JacksonBlue · 36-40, M
@Torsten id say they were potential solutions with surgery being the last measure. I know the therapy has made people stop going through with the transition. But i do think a lot of trans people go into it wanting the surgery and think everything else is a waste of time.

The same way some obese people want surgery but have to go through the therapy and alternative solutions before they can get surgery.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@JacksonBlue fair call.
Yes, there is therapy, but it normally is therapy to see if they are suited to the operations and so on. That seems to me like basically just a step to get to the treatment and the treatment when it comes to mutilating healthy bodies over a mental condition, i dont agree with it being a cure. Especially when suicide rate is still very high after the operations and yeah certain people try and claim its due to bullying and harassment but i think the real cause of it is when those operations are done, trans people at times realize the surgeries was not a cure and they still feel the way they did before the operations except now they have to go through a tremendously rough painful healing period.
Doomflower · 41-45, M
Characterizing it as mutilation seems unfair. If you're born with a club foot or cleft palate the treatment is surgical correction. The natural response to growing up with either of these uncorrected would understandably be significant mental distress.

Gender dysphoria is the equivalent mental response to being born in the wrong body.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@Doomflower nah that seems to fit perfectly when we are talking genatalia being cut and turned inside out and so on to healthy bodies.

gender dysphoria is a mental condition that makes people feel like they were born in the wrong body. I dont believe treating a mental condition with a physical treatment is the right way to go. Hence my comparison to schizophrenics.
To go more into it. There was a schizophrenic who believed he had something inside his head moving around and tried to cut apart the top of his head to be able to get it out.
Should doctors have encouraged that and done it for him?
yes its a different scenario but both mental conditions and both having a condition that makes the person think something is wrong with there body and it needs to be cut into to be made better. Only one gets encouraged and praised though.
Same thing with those people who feel like they should have born with no legs. Should doctors remove healthy legs to help their mental condition?
no obviously not.
Mental conditions should be treated with mental treatments
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"why is gender dysmorphia"

there is a term "gender dysphoria"
there is the term "body dysmorphia"

where did you get term "gender dysmorphia"?

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further, on topic and without emotion:

the formation of secondary sexual characteristics occurs between the ages of 10 and 16.

the best age for trance transition is before the age of 10.

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to make the transition or not to make the transition?

the answer depends on whether the person is transgender or not.

until scientific methods make it possible to detect with great accuracy the signs of transgenderism in a person, no one will be able to answer this question.

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there is nothing more to discuss here, but if you really want to, you can...
So you’re against circumcision?
Torsten · 36-40, M
@LeopoldBloom damn straight i am. I consider it child abuse and mutilation
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@Torsten Well, we agree on one thing at least.
Rolexeo · 26-30, M
He also can't define man and woman beyond "Identifies as a man/woman" dude is an idiot.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@Rolexeo i seen that. How you going to try and claim just identifying as a man or woman makes you just that yet he cant even define what a man or a woman is. The guy is clueless
Rolexeo · 26-30, M
@Torsten They really seem to have a problem defining things, cause if they define their ideas then they're easy to falsify.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@Rolexeo that is exactly it
Because people are hypocrites. They support amoral things. My question to you is, are you willing to tell your best friend that they have a mental issue? I remember you saying your best mate is trans.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@Stargazer89 she is the first to say gender dysmorphia is a mental condition. She aint one of those radical trans tiktok users haha. she fully knows and accepts she is biologically male and living as a female. Even jokes around with it a lot.
This is why i always say trans people in real life are not like you see with those trans psychos online saying the craziest of things or the activists
CorvusBlackthorne · 100+, M
It is not a mental condition, you imbecile. This has nothing to do with psychology, and everything to do with brain structure and hormones. That is a thing you would know had you done even a fraction of the research you claim to have done.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@Torsten Oh, I see. Your evidence is that you can call me names. Well, that's me told. Sorry, I didn't realize you had such an ironclad case. Good day to you, sir.
Torsten · 36-40, M
@LordShadowfire my evidence is facts. gender dysphoria has always been a mental condition and it always will be.
Your problem is you think i say that as a way to shut it down when that is not the case. I am just saying what it actually is and discussing if there is better treatment for a mental condition
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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Well, looky here. I unblock you after the mandatory minimum one month period, and within 5 minutes I find you harassing people and publicly calling them out because you don't like having your bullshit deleted from their posts. What a shocker.
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