Listen, it’s one kind of wrong to declare trans and nonbinary people as mentally ill, but like i really don’t see how my mental health impacts the genital structure I was born with
It only impacts it if you know it’s wrong and you can’t let the world know that your genitals don’t match your gender.
Like keeping any other huge secret would impact your mental health.
Oh yeah, but that’s like saying that having been to war is a mental disorder. Like as someone both trans and intersex, the former is an acknowledgment of an inner truth where all expressions of it are filtered through the brain at some point, but the latter idk what to tell people it’s like having a sixth toe (in the condition I’m thinking of of mine). You may not like it, and people may try to “fix” it or make me feel bad about it, but it was just there before my bottom surgery.
In a similar vein I have a cousin with (iirc) mono X. It’s definitely had negative impacts on her life and mental health but it’s a chromosomal condition not a mental condition
Lol don’t you love it.
Peru does something to force healthcare providers to cover transgender procedures and treatments, people are outraged that it’s been labelled an illness. You can’t make this stuff up.
It could pass a Gender Identity Recognition Act by self-identification. Then cover trasngender health by insurance, prohibit healthcare discrimination on grounds of gender identity, and use a modern, non-pathologizing code the one provided like ICD-11 by WHO “gender incongruence” a condition “related to sexual health”. Not a mental disorder. https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd
If the only way to help transgendered people is to call them mentally ill, maybe there’s a bigger problem you’re missing.
Yeah, the problem is “do no harm”. To modify your body, a medical professional needs to be fixing something, i.e. you have an illness that needs treatment.
So… you are under the bizarre (and very wrong) impression that doctors in other countries only give gender-affirming care to people they have determined have an illness?
Because, as I said, you are very wrong.
It is not the only way, WHO provides a code “gender incongruence” that is a condition “related to sexual health”. Not a mental disorder. https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd
Fine. Then Peru should do that.
I mean, I am mentally ill, but not because I’m nonbinary.
I don’t know you, but I know for many people, coming out helps with their mental illness issues.
Unsurprisingly, the stress of hiding your true self all the time for years is not mentally healthy.
