Some people live their entire life with long term mental illnesses. This is no different from people who suffer from Body Integrity Identity disorder. There are people out there who literally feel as if they should have an arm or a leg amputated. Some get over it, some do not, but the mental problem of someone who thinks they are the wrong sex is no different from someone who thinks they should have an arm or leg missing.
That some form of treatment doesn't work does not mean someone is mentally healthy. It just means they haven't figured out or can't treat the cause yet.
As I noted in my last post, research not seems to be suggesting BIID, which imo shares many characteristics with gender identity disorder including sexual issues, may well be a neurological rather than psychiatric disorder. Yet to suggest gender identity disorder might be psychiatric or neurological in nature is becoming politically incorrect. As will the research.
We agree. There is no known decent treatment yet for people like this.