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[–] Fact_Checking_Alien 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

Do they want to do that? Or just a small minority of a small minority? And so only mtf is ill, not ftm? Curious indeed.

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[–] BaldersNightmares ago 

FtM is also ill I just used the dick thing. Pretending/beliveing to be something you are not is ill yes. Cutting of and/or adding body parts to try and become something you are not is ill. Dont you think so?

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[–] Fact_Checking_Alien 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

No, in fact, I don't think believing you are something you aren't is mentally ill. In fact, it's so ordinary as to define humanity. Similarly, people who wish to add an arm to replace the one their brain says they should have (and have subsequently lost) is not ill either. Is the man missing an arm mentally ill when his brain tells him he should have one? Obviously not. Neither is it "ill" to desire that arm be there.

What you might be trying to suggest is that it isn't helpful to attempt correcting the neurological dissonance with surgery. This might be the case, and I would agree that little research is being done to discover alternatives in spite of the high suicide rate. Personally I would be curious to know whether it is in fact possible to alter ones perception of gender pharmacologically.

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[–] Landao 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Wanting to cut off your penis is just an example. The takeaway message being that wanting something that wanting to mutilate your body is part of an illness. Yes, adding body parts falls under mutilation as well.

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[–] Fact_Checking_Alien 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Hm. So, modifying your body is mutilation and mental illness? I wasn't aware that people who want cybernetic limbs are mentally ill for not accepting their lack of limbs. Nor that people with tumors are mentally ill for wanting them removed.

The innate problem with this line of reasoning, as I am trying to illustrate, is that it has no basis in reason. Just because you are proscribing the opposite of what you think your opponent is proscribing, does not make you (nor them) right. The simple fact is I see nothing here but attempting to justify "things I don't like" as mental illness.

It is further worth remarking that many people think they're something other than they are. Too damn many of them think they're "right", for a start.