Why The Medical Definition Of ‘Gender Dysphoria’ Is A Get-Rich Scam, Not A Real Diagnosis

The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 08, 2024 | JENNIFER BAUWENS, PH.D., AND WALT HEYER

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, vetoed a measure that would have barred minors from receiving harmful transgender interventions such as puberty blockers and wrong-sex hormones. Amid intense backlash, he’s since tried to run damage control, signing an executive order on Friday that bans only trans surgeries for minors. We hope Ohio Republicans still override DeWine’s veto.

There’s more going on behind the scenes of the medical establishment, however, especially as it relates to the “gender dysphoria” diagnosis. Gender dysphoria must be addressed in conjunction with contributing factors, such as adverse childhood experiences, but instead licensed clinicians rush children toward life-altering medical interventions.

If you pay any attention to the conversation surrounding so-called gender identity, you might be led to believe sex is not real and that its binary nature is a created concept that can be altered to align with a person’s psychological beliefs about his or her sex. Such is the thinking that undergirds gender dysphoria, a condition listed in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM). The diagnostic criteria hold that gender dysphoria is “a marked incongruence with one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender.”

The key to the gender dysphoria diagnosis hinges on the presence of distress. If a person experiences marked distress about being identified as transgender, that distress can be labeled a disorder. If a person does not experience marked distress, advocates hold that person’s transgender identity ought to be considered normal.

[normbal]

There is only ONE agenda, but there are TWO genders.

What agenda is that, pray tell?

Depopulation; (also) the root of many evils (with apologies to my Lord and Savior).

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[JayGalt]

Just think how the pushers are willing to mutilate people & destroy their lives to make a quick buck...

[Publius]

...but there are TWO genders.

There are 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. They exist in languages. In English they exist in pronouns and words adopted from foreign languages.

There are two sexes: male and female.

Words have meaning.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Indeed they do. Which is why the left is always trying to obliterate the meaning of words.

Words have gender
People have sex

[normbal]

All aspergers… ahem, aspersions aside, I gotcher gender right here, buddy:

gender1
—noun

Grammar.
-(in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish).
-one class of such a set.
such classes or sets collectively or in general.
membership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
-sex: the feminine gender.
-Archaic. kind, sort, or class.

[joshua c]

population control

kill babies

sterilize children

[hinckley buzzard]

Well, diagnosis does not dictate treatment. Nothing in the DSM dx requires consideration of sexual mutilation surgery or hormonal toxicity. The key is in the last sentence, given over to what “advocates” say.

[JubJub]

Assimilating Asperger’s with whatever you want to call this “gender disphorbia” BS is at the very least, ignorant, but most certainly offensive.

[Svartalfiar]

There are 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. They exist in languages. In English they exist in pronouns and words adopted from foreign languages.

There are two sexes: male and female.

Depends on the language. Some don't include neuter and everything is masculine or feminine. Or even have zero genders (really one). Some have more than three and include pluralities as a gender, or other categories. There's one well-known Australian language (if you've ever looked into this topic) that classes one gender as "women, fire, dangerous things".

Side note, Swedish is an interesting one where the unknown is defaulted to feminine, whereas in most languages, the default is masculine.