Is Being Transgender a Mental Disorder?
It used to be that being diagnosed as transgender was considered to be a mental illness, but not today.
Why?
If it is not a disorder then why the need to flood the body with foreign hormones and mutilate perfectly healthy genitals?
If you've done a little reading on the subject, listen to experts, and understood Biology, these folks doing things to their genitals makes perfect sense. Bottom line, because I'm not going to give you a lecture on the subject, you need to research the answers for yourself, It begins in the brain, from the womb. The simple elementary explanation is that the brain decides the sex based on various chromosome configurations. Except, occasionally, the brain becomes confused and never makes that decision. That is the beginning of the understanding process. It's up to you to take further steps, if you really want to understand, or at least recognize that there could be a Biological explanation. Most people who are hard core haters of gays or Transgenders will never do any research on the subject. So to spend time trying to educate them on the subject is a waste of time. You have to be willing to try and understand what is really going on, not just hate what you don't understand.
So the brain does not make the switch?
Again, this sounds like a disorder. Why is it not PC to call it a disorder?
First off, I'm not here to label it. I presented my case based on my own research that I read. I'm not a doctor or professional who is qualified to label it either way. That said, those who take the leap to try and understand the biological influences from the developing brain in the womb where the signal to the brain becomes confused through a chemical reaction, confusing the chromosome makeup, should be hard pressed to call it a disorder. I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
My personal opinion, and this may take folks aback, but I am convinced that it is a biological function, not a disorder, to control populations. Population dynamics is a fascinating subject by its own right, because, without a population balance, and I'm going to use animals as an example, exceed the natural capacity of the land to support healthy populations. Anyone ever see a male Deer humping another male Deer for example? All the hunters out there have seen this, including me. As a matter of fact, I have hunted Deer in areas where the populations were so high, that there were visible browse lines absent of good nutritional food, weight loss occurred, and deformed racks were common place. And I can't tell you how many times I watched Bucks mounting other Bucks on these properties. Why is this important to understand as it relates to the OP? Because, I believe there is a direct relationship between nature trying to control populations by ensuring the land sustains a healthy population of animals. It's natures way of responding to the need. Nature is a constant, where it works around the clock for the perpetuation of the species. And how did it respond to the Deer? How many bucks impregnated other bucks?
In other words, to give some explanation to the OP, the answer we seek, is simply nature doing what nature does to ensure healthy populations. We as humans do not practice population control as a general rule, so nature maybe helping us out? In Biology, we know animals practice population control with the help of nature.
I think sane, intelligent, informed people can fill in the rest of the blanks for themselves. The rest will just have to live with their hate, ignorance, and unwillingness to learn anything past their noses.
Am I right? Maybe not? I'm not God. But I did at least make the attempt to go beyond the fear and the hatred before I made the conscious decision to either hate or accept something for which I had no previous understanding. For me, it makes perfect sense. For others, I don't know? That's up to them.
Understanding nature turned the corner for me, and once I gathered and understood all the data, it's been a no brainer for me.
Learn Biology people. That's all I can tell you. It will unlock an awful lot of bigotry.