Unlike being gay which is a sexual preference and should have no bearing on ones service Transgenderism is a mental illness and should not be allowed in the military. Trump made the right call even though it's a tough one. I expect the LGBTQ and the left in general to raise hell over this in feathery high heeled, garter and teddy wearing, drag queen flare.
The fact remains that anyone who wants to remove a healthy appendage based on a feeling is in need of therapy. You wouldn't allow a person to cut off a healthy leg because they felt it didn't belong to them so why would you let the remove a healthy penis or augment a healthy vagina? You'd say the person who wants to cut off a healthy leg is crazy and yet because of PC we give a free pass to Transgenders. The reality is Transgenders probably have a form of BIID or BDD and need therapy to help them accept themselves.
Body dysmorphic disorder
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Body dysmorphic disorder
Synonyms body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome, dysmorphophobia
Specialty Psychiatry
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Body dysmorphic disorder (
BDD) is a mental disorder characterized by an obsessive preoccupation that some aspect of one's own appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix it.
[1] In BDD's delusional variant, the flaw is imagined.
[2] If the flaw is actual, its importance is severely exaggerated.
[2] Either way, one's thoughts about it are pervasive and intrusive, occupying up to several hours a day. The
DSM-5 categorizes BDD in the
obsessive–compulsive spectrum, and distinguishes it from
anorexia nervosa.
BDD is estimated to affect up to 2.4% of the population.
[2] It usually starts during adolescence, and affects men and women roughly equally.
[2][3] The BDD subtype
muscle dysmorphia, perceiving the body as too small, affects mostly males.
[4] Besides thinking about it, one repetitively checks and compares the perceived flaw, and can adopt unusual routines to avoid social contact that exposes it.
[2] Fearing the stigma of vanity, one usually hides the preoccupation.
[2] Commonly unsuspected even by psychiatrists, BDD has been greatly underdiagnosed.
[2] Severely impairing quality of life via educational and occupational dysfunction and social isolation, BDD involves especially high rates of
suicidal ideation and
suicide attempts.
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Body integrity identity disorder
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"Self-amputation" redirects here. See also
Autotomy.
Body integrity identity disorder (
BIID, also referred to as
amputee identity disorder)
[1] is a psychological disorder in which an otherwise healthy individual feels that one is likened to others who are clearly, obviously disabled because of amputation in the latter case.
[2][3][4][5][6] BIID is related to xenomelia, "the dysphoric feeling that one or more limbs of one's body do not belong to one's self".
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BIID is typically accompanied by the desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs. It also includes the desire for other forms of disability, as in the case of a woman who intentionally blinded herself.
[2] BIID can be associated with
apotemnophilia, sexual arousal based on the image of one's self as an amputee. The cause of BIID is unknown. One hypothesis states that it results from a neurological failing of the brain's inner body mapping function (located in the right
parietal lobe) to incorporate the affected limb in its understanding of the body's physical form.
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