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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by loeg on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:09PM (#37297299)
The distinction being dysphoria includes distress, while incongruence does not? This seems like an arguable difference in scope of whether "trans" includes people who aren't distressed about gender incongruence.
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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by ryan-c on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:44PM (#37300182)
The current consensus amongst medical professionals is that gender dysphoria is not requisite for being trans. This was not the case in the fairly recent past.

There is also "gender euphoria" which may be experienced by people who do not/did not experience dysphoria.

I'm not sure whether from a clinical standpoint distress about incongruance is the same as dysphoria.

There are a lot of people who would have failed to meet previous diagnostic criteria but nonetheless are happy to have received gender affirming medical care. I think the best we can do is provide people with bodily autonomy on an informed consent basis.

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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by zo1 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:21AM (#37304085)
Layman here. They're just doing this to distance trans from gender dysphoria, making it a "legitimate" thing as opposed to a "condition" like gender dysphoria, because the latter implies treatment.

Side note. Why does Android keep auto-correcting dysphoria as dysphagia. Wtf is dysphagia anyways?

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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by ryan-c on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:54AM (#37304254)
"layman"?

You called being trans a "social contagion" in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291089

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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by begett on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:12AM (#37304380)
It most likely is, for many people. In that it involves the adoption of a false self-belief via one's peers, from within the framework of the gender identity belief system. An interesting sociological phenomenon.

We can also look at the rise in people adopting 'they/them' and similar unusual personal pronouns as a measure of the rise in number of acolytes of that belief system.

It's a denial of material reality, replaced with a sort of spiritual essence of 'woman' or 'man' or some ill-defined in-between.

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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by zo1 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:13AM (#37307361)
Not sure what me saying that in the other thread has to do with me posting here with a "layman" hot take?

And for anyone reading this, I really have no issue with trans people. Pretty much everyone starts with a clean slate with me in my book.

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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by labster on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:07PM (#37316789)
Don’t even bother replying to new 1-karma accounts on hot button issues. Your sanity will appreciate it.
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Re:Federal Study Links Testicular Cancer to ‘Forever Chemicals’ by ryan-c on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:46AM (#37323910)
Did you reply to the wrong comment by mistake? None of the accounts in this thread (except one that got flagged to death) are new, and my account is the oldest one in this reply chain.
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