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Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers... by kaitai on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:39PM (#27612481)
This doesn't address the "dysphoria = trans" claim at all. As I wrote in the other comment, one can be uneasy or unhappy with one's body/gender without wanting to switch to "the other" gender. As a mathematician, it seems like people here are claiming {1,2} = R (real numbers) which is just weird, they're sets of different cardinality.
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Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers... by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:53PM (#27612965)
You are arguing semantics. The specific words that the scientific community uses to refer to reality in their models of reality often change.

For example, “discomfort” in gender dysphoria is a scientific term that implies a level of suffering on par with the “discomfort” one would feel immediately after a major surgery, during the recovery phase, except this discomfort is chronic.

Scientifically, people experiencing gender dysphoria are considered to be in a state of chronic suffering for which there is a medical treatment, called gender affirming care.

Not all gender affirming care results in gender reassignment.

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