if gender is a social construct

 
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Except that'll never happen.
it will though


 
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because they get bullied

duh

if we treated people like fucking human beings, it wouldn't be an issue at all
has nothing to do with sex/procreation and everything to do with discrimination

that's the root of the problem, and you're a big part of it, bubba


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because they get bullied

duh

if we treated people like fucking human beings, it wouldn't be an issue at all
has nothing to do with sex/procreation and everything to do with discrimination

that's the root of the problem, and you're a big part of it, bubba

Gotta go with verb on that one. I will admit, i'm not evactly an advocate for gay marrage, but the way they have been treated has been absolutely unaceptable.


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gender dysphoria is nothing
gender is meaningless

it doesn't hurt you at all, in any way whatsoever, to feel like you belong in the opposite gender
and if someone is uncomfortable about their dysphoria, then that's their own problem

if you're not stupid, you won't give a fuck what your gender is

harsh, but true
Yeah, uh, gender dysphoria is actually something that exists and it can be the root of other mental problems (like depression). What is the attempted suicide rate for trans people? Like 40%? I really don't think stupidity has anything to do with it, Verbatim.


 
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Yeah, uh, gender dysphoria is actually something that exists
i never said it didn't
when i said it's "nothing", i meant it's nothing to worry about

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it can be the root of other mental problems (like depression).
people don't get depressed because they were born the wrong gender

they get depressed because either
1. they care too much about what other people think
2. people bully them

that's why they kill themselves


 
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Bro, Verb, dysphoria has so much to do with your physical body that eliminating any nuance of gender roles in society still wouldn't help it.

Didn't you ever talk to Soph about this?


 
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Bro, Verb, dysphoria has so much to do with your physical body that eliminating any nuance of gender roles in society still wouldn't help it.

Didn't you ever talk to Soph about this?
not much, to be honest

but i'm just saying, if we took away all our inhibitions about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a women, if we took away all bias, all prejudice, all discrimination, in what way would gender dysphoria matter? why would you be dysphoric about your gender if not for the social implications?
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because they get bullied

duh

if we treated people like fucking human beings, it wouldn't be an issue at all
has nothing to do with sex/procreation and everything to do with discrimination

that's the root of the problem, and you're a big part of it, bubba
Nope. They're in anguish because they think they're "in the wrong body.

Had nothing to do with bullying. And I don't bully transgendered or dehumanize them, so you can shove that up your ass.

what verb said honestly applies more to gays. On the issues of transexuals you're right


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I'd like to throw out there that Gender Dysphoria is a subset of Body Dismorphic Disorder, a Somatoform/ Somatic Symptom Disorder. It's not as simple as eliminating the concept of gender; it's a problem of the brain not being able to reconcile what it perceives to be grave physical deformities.


 
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They're in anguish because they think they're "in the wrong body.
and why does it matter if they were?

it doesn't


 
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I'd like to throw out there that Gender Dysphoria is a subset of Body Dismorphic Disorder, a Somatoform/ Somatic Symptom Disorder. It's not as simple as eliminating the concept of gender; it's a problem of the brain not being able to reconcile what it perceives to be grave physical deformities.
i honestly believe eliminating the concept of gender would indeed solve that problem--at least for the gender dysphoric

for those who have some other strictly bodily form of BDD, that's obviously a different story
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They're in anguish because they think they're "in the wrong body.
and why does it matter if they were?

it doesn't

>this says the guy who seriously wants to blow up the universe because he thinks the concept of suffering is oh so bad
LOL


 
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>this says the guy who seriously wants to blow up the universe
you keep saying that, but i don't


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I think saying it's "nothing to worry about" is a bit unfair when you also acknowledge that it has social consequences, and our happiness depends largely on social integration

But I've only read the last page so maybe you covered this.


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Bro, Verb, dysphoria has so much to do with your physical body that eliminating any nuance of gender roles in society still wouldn't help it.

Didn't you ever talk to Soph about this?
not much, to be honest

but i'm just saying, if we took away all our inhibitions about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a women, if we took away all bias, all prejudice, all discrimination, in what way would gender dysphoria matter? why would you be dysphoric about your gender if not for the social implications?
Because of the biological differences in men and women.

I think you guys are forgetting that it's not solely gender differences that cause dysphoria, but the biological differences too.

Removing gender may make it easier, but it still doesn't remove the fact that women and men are biologically different, and this causes dysphoria because they feel they're stuck in the wrong body, transitioning makes this easier by making them match their preferred sex as closely as possible. Since it's not actually possible to change your sex, changing your gender is the closest that you can get.


 
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I think saying it's "nothing to worry about" is a bit unfair when you also acknowledge that it has social consequences, and our happiness depends largely on social integration

But I've only read the last page so maybe you covered this.
yes, you are indeed misconstruing my message

i'm not glibly saying that there's nothing to worry about--i'm using that phrase in a broader context

what i've been saying is that gender SHOULD NOT matter to anyone
thereby meaning that there would be nothing to worry about

objectively speaking, there already is nothing to worry about--people (the bullies) just choose to act like gender matters, because they're fucking stupid


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I'd like to throw out there that Gender Dysphoria is a subset of Body Dismorphic Disorder, a Somatoform/ Somatic Symptom Disorder. It's not as simple as eliminating the concept of gender; it's a problem of the brain not being able to reconcile what it perceives to be grave physical deformities.
i honestly believing eliminating the concept of gender would indeed solve that problem--at least for the gender dysphoric

for those who have some other strictly bodily form of BDD, that's obviously a different story
It's really more of a misunderstanding of what "the wrong body" means. It's more to do with the mind thinking of the masculine/feminine traits of the body to be deformities. And since you can't change someone's gender, as we've seen stated a lot in this thread, you can't really tackle it from a cognitive perspective. The only real "fix" is hormonal therapy or surgery, which is basically like plastic surgery for a general case of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

I mean, through the eyes of someone with Gender Dysmorphia, gender isn't the problem; that is already down-pat. The body is the issue.
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
I'm starting to think gender dysphoria is the result of some physiological or psychological imbalance that causes general unhappiness with ones sex regardless of sex, since 20pc regret sexual reassignment and 40pc still go on to commit suicide.


 
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Removing gender may make it easier, but it still doesn't remove the fact that women and men are biologically different, and this causes dysphoria because they feel they're stuck in the wrong body, transitioning makes this easier by making them match their preferred sex as closely as possible. Since it's not actually possible to change your sex, changing your gender is the closest that you can get.
all i'm saying is that we should teach people not to care


 
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Except it does. That's why a lot of them commit suicide.

Just stop. You don't have a leg to stand on here.
Except it doesn't. People commit suicide for irrational reasons all the time.

Just stop. You don't have a leg to stand on here.


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I'm starting to think gender dysphoria is the result of some physiological or psychological imbalance that causes general unhappiness with ones sex regardless of sex, since 20pc regret sexual reassignment and 40pc still go on to commit suicide.
A lot of the trans community despises the hoops one has to jump through to get access to help, but it's really necessary. It's much more likely that someone suffering from depression latched onto a sex change to make themselves happy than the other way around. People are supposed  to go to a psychologist to be made sure that the depression is caused by GD, but people tend to not be patient when their happiness is on the line.


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I think saying it's "nothing to worry about" is a bit unfair when you also acknowledge that it has social consequences, and our happiness depends largely on social integration

But I've only read the last page so maybe you covered this.
yes, you are indeed misconstruing my message

i'm not glibly saying that there's nothing to worry about--i'm using that phrase in a broader context

what i've been saying is that gender SHOULD NOT matter to anyone
thereby meaning that there would be nothing to worry about

objectively speaking, there already is nothing to worry about--people (the bullies) just choose to act like gender matters, because they're fucking stupid
Gotcha.


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Removing gender may make it easier, but it still doesn't remove the fact that women and men are biologically different, and this causes dysphoria because they feel they're stuck in the wrong body, transitioning makes this easier by making them match their preferred sex as closely as possible. Since it's not actually possible to change your sex, changing your gender is the closest that you can get.
all i'm saying is that we should teach people not to care

Teaching people not to have a mental disorder is like trying to convince all life in the universe to kill itself....oh

Gender/sex is naturaly a major part of our self identity anyway sice it naturaly influences our pysiology and the way we think
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I mean, through the eyes of someone with Gender Dysmorphia, gender isn't the problem; that is already down-pat. The body is the issue.
i guess i just don't see why someone would care so much about it to the level where they'd want to change their body

why would it matter to anyone

i'm not saying you shouldn't want to change your body if you do--but why kill yourself over it
that's why i call it irrational


 
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I'm starting to think gender dysphoria is the result of some physiological or psychological imbalance that causes general unhappiness with ones sex regardless of sex, since 20pc regret sexual reassignment and 40pc still go on to commit suicide.
Well, you see, the big thing about SRS is, well, it's crude yet.


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I'd like to throw out there that Gender Dysphoria is a subset of Body Dismorphic Disorder, a Somatoform/ Somatic Symptom Disorder. It's not as simple as eliminating the concept of gender; it's a problem of the brain not being able to reconcile what it perceives to be grave physical deformities.
i honestly believe eliminating the concept of gender would indeed solve that problem--at least for the gender dysphoric

for those who have some other strictly bodily form of BDD, that's obviously a different story
You're plain wrong. The majority of my issues come from having a male-sexed body instead of a female one (not that I'm trying to speak for everyone, but...)