You Need Gender Dysphoria in Order to Be Trans

There's been many, many, MANY people on social media stating you DON'T need gender dysphoria in order to be trans so I'm here to state otherwise. Feel free to harass me in the comments but you're gonna show your true colors fyi.

I'm a trans guy and honestly it's extremely frustrating dealing with people who think you don't need gender dysphoria in order to be trans. The only defense argument that I've really seen is gender dysphoria = hating yourself and not many trans people feel like they hate themselves. That is 100% false.

There are WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) guidelines that exist and it basically goes over having letters for surgery and hormones, needing a therapist/doctor to recommend surgery, all that kind of stuff. The link will be here: https://www.wpath.org

I had to get a letter from my therapist for hormones and top surgery basically stating I have gender dysphoria and that I should continue my transition. Both my endocrinologist and surgeon reviewed the letters and we continued from there. The letters are basically "proof" that I suffer from a mental illness and transitioning would help provide some relief.

This article goes into what gender dysphoria is: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/what-is-gender-dysphoria

Brief article about brain scans w/ transgender people: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm

Gender dysphoria isn't about hating yourself, it's about feeling a disconnection between your sex and gender. It's not curable but there are ways to help it, like medically and socially transitioning. Transgender people who've had brain scans show similar brain characteristics to the gender they're transitioning to (like a ftm person having some similar brain characteristics when compared to a cis male).

This is another article about gender dysphoria and brain scan studies: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/

Study about how early people experience gender dysphoria: https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/most-gender-dysphoria-established-by-age-7-study-finds/

Do you notice how all of these links I've provided talk about gender dysphoria? It's because doctors/surgeons/therapists the idea of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria and all of the research done upon trans people is literal proof that we have an actual real condition, we aren't making stuff up.

Although gender dysphoria can be different for everyone, it still exists and it's a requirement of being trans. Why would you transition if you don't feel uncomfortable with your body, pronouns, literally anything?

Here's another study that is about medical intervention regarding gender dysphoria: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5580378/

It just goes to show if you have gender dysphoria and transition you will feel much happier. If you DON'T have gender dysphoria and transition, you will make your life a living hell. Here's a link to a FTM detransitioner if you want to hear about their story: https://youtu.be/n0pVuZ0CT7Q

If you think you're trans please go to a regular therapist, not a gender therapist. A gender therapist will throw you to an endocrinologist within the first 30 seconds of meeting you, which is obviously bad. Some people think they're trans just because they hate being a man/woman due to trauma they've experienced. Doesn't necessarily have to be about trauma either, you could easily say you hate being a woman just because you hate your monthly cycle.

Thanks for reading.

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