CBB-Michelle " I ACTUALLY can't take it anymore!"?

You asked: "The question is, is it now wrong to say that transsexualism is a mental disorder?" YES Transsexualism is a congenital birth condition (a medical condion), gender dysphoria is only a sympton of that. People are born transsexual (mind-body mismatch), but they are not born with dysphoria.

The dysphoria comes later as the person becomes self-aware of their body and how society misgenders them as a result. It should also be noted that some non-transsexual people can experience gender dysphoria or at least something that mimics it. The difference is duration.

For non-transsexual people such dysphoria is shortlived (hours or days), whereas for transsexual people it's never ending (years) until they are able to transition to correct the mismatch they were born with. Once corrected the dysphoria more or less disappears. As Bree said in the movie TransAmerica: Surgery doesn't cure a mental disorder.

Transition works precisely because it's NOT a mental disorder. It works because it corrects a birth condition. Edit: As I said yesterday: Another reason we need the gender dysphoria diagnosis is it allows transsexual people to gain access to medical care.

Without a diagnosis that would be much, much more difficult. Edit: 1. A birth condition is simply something that is present at birth.

We know transsexualism is a what they call a developmental variant during gestation. We don't know the exact cause(s) yet, but it happens before birth, hence being called a birth condition. 2.

You are correct. Transsexualism is a medical condition and gender dysphoria is a symptom of that condition. 3.

Again, you are correct, it's not curable, but it is treatable. Through the process of transition we bring the body into alignment (as much as possible) with the brain's gender identity AND we assume a gender appropriate role in society. The combination of these two things dramatically improves the lives of transsexual people.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.