Mr Mystery is confused...

We did happenstance on that rarest of rarest an attempted re-railment by an horseman

which had token support...till the topic took off again...

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Originally Posted by Denzark

Everyone has different levels of tolerance of stress and reacts differently to different stressors. You cannot possibly empathise with 100% of girls who have breast modifications and 100% of tansgender persons who have some form of gender re-assignment, and then guaurantee you know for a fact that one is a harsher affliction which affects them worse.

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As a relevent point, to go for gender reassignment surgery a person has to have lived a year or more as their prefered gender full time (ie 24/7, no time off for granny's 90th or it's back to square one) and been under constant psychiatric evaluation for that period. It's often longer, so there is significant checking involved to make sure the person is a) sure themselves, and b) genuinely in need of this 'fix'.
I think that if someone is under as much stress as gender dysphoria can cause, regardless of the issue, the state should do what it can to help its people.

Also, I appreciate the apology and return it for snapping - it is unfortunately an all too common attitude that many are unflexible over, sadly.


As a footnote, the DSM-V is going to do away with GID as a term, redefining and renaming it to gender dysphoria.