How a Mental Illness from 1980 is Bringing more Distress to a Not Ill Population Casie Lambert
In 1980, the mental illness, individuals are also at higher risk for They are portrayed as ill for not gender dysphoria, was introduced into discrimination, victimization, and hate conforming to a gender binary and the DSM, most likely to re-stigmatize crimes; all of which can lead to mental then mistreated by people around homosexuality in society. Gender illness. Being transgender is not the them. dysphoria is a conflict between a person’ s assigned gender and the one that they identify with; or in other words, identifying as transgender. The two words are used interchangeably throughout text, which assumes transgender as a mental disorder. cause of further mental illness. Society’ s internalized misogyny and normalization of a binary gender system is the cause of mental illness in the transgender community.
Think about it. It is like being on the school playground with bullies that
Nearly 40 years later, gender dysphoria is still in the DSM and transgender people still face discrimination every day. Continuing to classify gender dysphoria within the DSM only allows for further hate towards the transgender community.
Transgender people are more take your lunch money. This time The transgender community is not sick. at risk for other mental disorders than around however, the bully is the The hate from the people around them those that identify with their assigned society you live in, and your lunch is what will make a transgender sex. This higher risk, however, should money is the right to living as an mentally ill. Not their identification. not be associated with identifying or accepted individual in the world. This is being transgender. Transgender how transgender people live every day.