(July 25, 2020 at 11:24 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(July 25, 2020 at 10:50 am)TaraJo Wrote: Are there trans people who just plain ol' don't have dysphoria? I suppose, but I'm forced to question why they would transition in the first place. If transitioning put you through some of the pain and suffering I went through, why would someone choose to do that unless they felt like there was no other way? At very least I'm going to say that there are very real and very important differences between dysphoric and non-dysphoric trans people.
Do you know if there are people in the community who identify as transgender, not because they feel any mismatch with their sex or want to transition, but simply because they don't or wish not to identify with any gender? It would make sense if the difference between trans people with and without Gender Dysphoria revolves around choice. Transgenders who don't have a choice in the matter have GD; and individuals that identify as transgender but don't feel any mismatch don't have GD.
It is, I think, a spectrum. No one should care, especially, if the individual in question does not. Unless it is causing distress for a particular individual (I, for one, am completely at peace with myself), then, it's not an issue; I think that the DSM-V reflects that. Gender, unlike biological sex, is not completely binary.
