Transexuals

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Well if you don't get diagnosed with gender identity disorder by a qualified physician then you don't get gender reassignment surgery, it's that simple.

You... can. It just usually comes with less amazing surgeons, and with less potent results. Also much riskier.

Every case of dissociative identity disorder is treated as unique, and gender identity disorder should be approached in the same way. For the most part it is, but it also isn't. For instance, the validation of someone's gender dysphoria as their identity is at odds with the views on how to treat DID.

It definitely should be... especially coming from someone who was very dissociative throughout her earlier teenage years. I couldn't 'grasp' my own body, so I simply imagined my body was not. Spent most of my time in my head, I would wake up with little memory of the previous day, then I would wake up again.

I'd like to say I completely dealt with it, but I still spend more time as someone who isn't me than I spend as me. I find gaming and high-focus tasks (such as the forum) help me out. Way I figure though, it doesn't harm anyone and I've gotten so much better simply from estrogen/anti-androgens that I never need to talk to a psychologist about it.

Concurrent gender dysphoria and dissociative identity disorder. To this day, Perfect Blue (a psychological thriller about the latter of these) still wrecks me. I still don't trust shrinks, too often they wanted to put me on pills... always different pills. What a fucking waste that would have been.