Gender dismorphia?

Question

Okay so I honestly want to understand. I know that it's a psychological condition and serious due to the anxiety and depression that comes with believing you are the wrong gender... But why is the treatment becoming the gender that you think you should be?
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With pretty much every other psychological thing, people are medicated to try to go back to their proper and biological "factory settings" if you will. Why aren't people with this disorder be treated any differently?
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I'm not trying to be negative in any way, I just honestly have never understood this.

EDIT: thank you for all your responses. I've been wanting to learn about it and will research further. Thank you for being very patient with me.

Answer

God, I hate "coming out" but, yes, hello, I'm gonna be your resident agender guide - please keep your hands and feet inside the ride.

First of all, if you wanna do a lil research about what gender dysphoria is - which is what I think you're trying to talk about - then it might be helpful to know it's called dysphoria.

Secondly, in regards to medication and why it's not treated the same as disorder.. The short answer is that it's not a disorder. People tend to operate on a spectrum when it comes to gender identity. Even straight, cis people. That's how you get "tomboys" and effeminate men. Being trans or non-binary is just falling somewhere else on the spectrum.

Thirdly, another reason why I believe it's not medicated the same way is that there's nothing harmful about being trans. Depression for instance is medicated because it can lead to self-harm and suicide. Transitioning, so "encouraging these feelings", doesn't promote harmful behavior. In fact those who transition are less likely to commit suicide. Whereas those who are forced to "fix" themselves are at extremely high risk to commuting suicide.

Lastly, even if one experiences dysphoria, transitioning isn't always the way of solving that. I experience dysphoria being agender, but it would be literally no help to change my appearance. So there's that.

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How about you ask a transgender or non-binary person this question? Many people on this app are cisgender women, and none of us can speak from personal experience. Either try one of the LGBT+ groups or Google it and get first hand accounts.

Just a reminder that dysmorphia a form of anxiety caused by the forced gender identity given at birth due to your biological sex organs. Reducing cisnormativity and misgendering can decrease gender dysmorphia. So letting people become the gender they are, rather than making them fit binary ideals is the better option.

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You mean kinda like we used to send gay kids to straight camp or shock the adults' asses to "reset them to factory settings"?

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It's true that gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM V, however it was a controversial inclusion. It's also important to understand it's the malaise that's associated with gender dysphoria that's listed. Not the state of being trans in and of itself.

As for treatment it's not always a factory preset that's the desired outcome. Treatment instead often focuses on healthy coping mechanisms and strategies.

For trans individuals that may mean offering support while following through with a physical transition, or it may mean achieving a healthy self image without physical changes. In short it's not the goal to make a person no longer trans, but instead for them to reach a state of equilibrium with who they are.

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The simplest possible answer here is because, all together now...

It. Does. Not. Work.

We tried medicating trans people back to their 'factory settings' as you put it, and it doesn't work. There is nothing we know of - not medication, not therapy, not even brain surgery - that can consistently change the brain of a trans person to match their biological sex. If we're going to treat gender dysphoria as an actual disorder, then we have to accept that we've only got one working treatment for it.

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Because most other psychological disorders have to do with a mental imbalance that can be controlled but not fixed where gender dimorphia is something that can genuinely be fixed and altered. You see yourself everyday knowing you're not who you should be.

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