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Re:How to talk about autism respectfully by pseudalopex on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:00PM (#29740777)
What a gender dysphoria diagnosis actually means is they met 2 of 6 criteria.[1] A strong desire to be the opposite sex is just 1 of them. 2 if you believe gender just means sex.

The gender and sex distinction is common even if you think it shouldn't be. It's hard to believe a biologist wouldn't know that. Don't misrepresent what trans people believe.

[1] https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphori...

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Re:How to talk about autism respectfully by siland on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:35PM (#29741727)
Nitpicking the diagnostic criteria doesn't refute my main point, which was that desires and beliefs are not the same thing as actually being.

When you get down to the biological reality of it, a male with gender dysphoria, or who claims a to have a female 'gender identity', is quite obviously not a woman.

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