RE: White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman
November 16, 2017 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2017 at 2:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 16, 2017 at 2:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Is identifying as a female when you have male chromosomes and a male body, a disorder of any sorts?
Not trying to be smart here, it's a genuine question. I hold 0 judgement on the character of those faced with something like this.
Nope. Disorders are, by definition, things that impact your ability to function. Gender dysphoria is a disorder..for example..not because a person identifies as the opposite sex...but because the manner in which their identity manifests itself impacts their ability to function. They're uncomfortable in their own bodies - which they are incapable of escaping...and this produces acute anxiety. A comfortable transgender person is in no meaningful way suffering from disorder.
I suppose it's interesting..if terrible...that disorder can be inflicted upon a person externally through coercion and conditioning...but thems the breaks...and that serves as a good example of the tyranny of floating normatives. Some cultures have viewed transgenderism, gender non-conformity, and sexual heterodoxy in the general as holy...and it would have been far more unlikely for any person in the periphery of any of those things to have been suffering from a disorder in those cultures on account of it than it is in ours.
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