Gender Dysphoria

Gender dysphoria is a strange ailment.

Generally, all 'mental illnesses' are made up diseases, but gender dysphoria is a strange one even among mental illnesses. Usually, if you are suffering from something a psychologist or therapist can help you with, then you have some sort of thinking defect. After some period of talk therapy, possibly supplemented by medication, you no longer have the thinking defect, and you are said to be cured. If it is a psychiatrist you go to, they tell you there's some sort of chemical imbalance in your brain, which is causing your unwanted feelings and associated behavior. Again, after a period of being on some medicines, you are 'fixed': the unwanted feelings are much diminished and no longer cause you to behave in ways you don't want to behave. In both cases, because you had an 'illness', you get to charge your insurance company for 'treatment'.

If you have gender dysphoria, though, 'treatment' mainly seems to consist of 'affirmation' and 'support'. The therapist or psychiatrist won't use any psychiatric medicines to correct any chemical imbalances, nor do they try to talk you out of your gender dysphoria. In fact, they seem to be prohibited from talking you out of it. psychiatry.org says - "Psychological attempts to force a transgender person to be cisgender (sometimes referred to as gender identity conversion efforts or so-called 'gender identity conversion therapy') are considered unethical and have been linked to adverse mental health outcomes." Though it says 'force', technically, any attempt to persuade the 'patient' to be 'cisgender' can be classified as 'force'.

So the 'doctor' has no option but to go along with the thinking of the 'patient', and basically 'affirm' and 'support' that thinking. The doctor or therapist eventually prescribes puberty blockers or 'gender affirming' hormones or 'gender affirming' surgery. The patient's thinking and brain chemistry do not change - his or her body changes. In this scenario, is the patient even a mental patient? After all, there is nothing wrong with the patient's thinking or brain chemistry. What is wrong is his or her body.

If there is a problem with your body, you go to a physician to get it fixed. You don't first go to a therapist or psychologist, who then refers you to a physician. If you are 'suffering' from gender dysphoria, and the 'treatment' is almost always getting your body in agreement with your dysphoria, then what business does a therapist have in all this? Why is gender dysphoria in DSM?

The transgender people themselves don't seem to think they have a mental disease. They know they need referrals from 'mental health' professionals for their hormones and surgeries, but they don't think they have 'mental health' issues. In fact, they argue that being transgender is the normal thing, and being 'cisgender' is the abnormal thing. They claim God is transgender.