Yes.
Now, robbed of your transparent excuse, please take your sly bigotry back to the worse parts of the 20th Century, where it belongs.
"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
You highlighted the part where I was talking about breast implants. Just because the opinion APA doesn't consider it a mental illness doesn't make it a fact. If you believe something that's obviously not true you're either a child (Santa Claus), stupid,ignorant or you're mentally ill. I do not feel that people who want sex changes are stupid just that they are just mentally ill. I am in no way attacking these people.
Ha! If we followed the logic in this thread, changing said gender would change sexual orientation as well. You know, since that's the baggage that comes with the word itself.
What am I specifically wrong about? Am I wrong because I have a differing opinion? Again, just because it's a discussion about sexuality outside the norm, doesn't mean that people are right and wrong.
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Just had it looked up. In the DSM-5 "Gender Dysphoria" is a condition resulting from being trans, but not getting treatment (hormones, surgery, ect) and suffering from depression or anxiety because of it.
I will add as a disclaimer that I did not read the DSM-5 myself, but that a Psychologist that I trust read it and gave me that answer.
I'm sorry, clearly you have more expertise on the subject than the APA, I was wrong for questioning you, and I defer to your expert opinion.
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You are wrong because you are using definitions that contradict current definitions, is that so hard to understand?
It could very well be argued that changing gender would change sexual orientation from a societal perspective but from a biological perspective it would remain the same.
But where's Mister Hat?
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This is not "news" and therefore not worthy of an exception to the ban on gender identity topics.
The level of ignorance in this thread is pretty high as usual, mainly from a group of people who are truly clueless but act like they know what they're talking about because they had a high-school biology class and believe that their limited knowledge covers all edge cases without thinking over the ramifications of their words.
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