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Hippiesq's avatar

Question: what does it mean to be male or female, if unrelated to the body or to societal definitions of masculinity or femininity? Answer: you know, it means you feel male or you feel female. Question: What does male or female mean? Answer: you wouldn't understand, since you're "cis." Question: Why do you need to change your body just because you feel male or feel female if your body has nothing to do with it? Answer: because the mis-match is distressing. Question: why is the mis-match distressing if there is no link between the body and the identity? Answer: you wouldn't understand because you're "cis."

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Diane Perry's avatar

If Gender Clinics actually followed Trans Rights rhetoric in treating 'gender dysphoria'...this is how it would go!

APPOINTMENT:

Patient: Hello, I'm here because I'm dysphoric.

Doctor: Well, what are you dysphoric about?

Patient: Well, I'm a male--

Doctor: AMAB you mean. Go on.

Patient: --y-yes, but I"m a woman inside --

Doctor: And outside. Transwomen are women.

Patient: -- o-of course! But basically I need tits to feel my true self.

Doctor:...Why? Transwomen are women.

Patient: Yeahhh, but women have tits and I dont, so I"m dysphor...

Doctor: Women don't need to have tits to be women.

Patient: O-Okay, but what about my dick? I at least want SRS--

Doctor: Women can have dicks. Also, men can get pregnant. Why are you dysphoric? It sounds like you don't understand what men and women are.

Patient: Well, true that women can have penises and men can have vaginas, but--

Doctor: Indeed, it is true. So your dysphoria is baseless. Now get out of my office.

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