Gold Dragon wrote:Gender dysphoria is only present when there is significant distress. If there is no distress about gender identity, the disorder is not there.
It can be though of as a subset of anxiety disorders where the subject of the anxiety happens to be gender identity.
Most transgendered folks do have to go through a period of gender dysphoria before they come to terms with their identity. Others experience gender dysphoria for much of their lives. A lot of that is because they are victims of harassment not perpetrators.
It's nice to know at least some of the peeps in Toronto and Canada have got to that stage to be able to interpret these terms and writings correctly to know what they are talking about. +1 sir.
For a person to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, there must be a marked difference between the
individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign him or her, and it must
continue for at least six months. In children, the desire to be of the other gender must be present and
verbalized. This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or
other important areas of functioning
"Significant distress" and "impairment of functioning" in different settings is part of several clinical disorders, including anxiety disorders mentioned before, and even items like obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's not generally a disorder, until it impairs functioning or interferes with other parts of daily life, and does so for 6 months (or other durations for other disorders). And neither does the document state anywhere that the disorder of gender identity is equivalent to transgenderism or any other LGBT identity.
The factors in this primer clearly differentiate something like gender dysphoria and LGBT identity. These primers, and even full documents, are also not meant for lay people to understand without any background in psychiatric disorders or terminology. They are meant for medical and psychiatric trainees and professional who know how to use the terminology to differentiate between what falls under the diagnoses and what does not.
This is a big point of confusion for lay people who are motivated to seek out a mental illness criteria for LGBT identity where there is none, several of which are in this thread and can hopefully be educated otherwise. This is an issue of being culturally or socially influenced to believe a certain way, often without direct experience with LGBT persons in a medical setting or otherwise, and a lack of understanding of the terminology.
All of the above makes it even more dangerous for lay people to jump the gun and assume what was written agrees with something it in fact does not agree with or support at all.
refshateRaps wrote:This is likely the way of the future. You want money and jobs? Obey. As Democracy for better or worse is no longer relevant. NBA is just another leg in the Big Corporate Octopus... What happened to the idea of Democracy? I Guess aside from the formality we can assume voting is useless.
I don't know what's worse, that you don't think this is a step forward, or that you think in the past it was any different.
And obey to what? Be yourself and be who you are, is obeying? To whom? Obeying was making people hide their identity to serve in the military or get a job in the first place. Obeying is having to hide your relationship and not receive any benefits of such a relationship with another consenting adult, because it is not yet legally approved.
And neither is democracy is a means for trampling on people's rights. Something which the NBA and so many other businesses are protecting in their home country through these actions. Also see: Supreme Court of Canada for further information in our own country.
It's just so embarrassing how easily the logic of such arguments falls apart so easily. Like you guys actually don't consider the ramifications of what you guys are insinuating or what the alternative is. That's just really, really sad.
You seem intent on promoting an idealogy which restricts the rights of other people, probably whom you don't even know personally, probably whom have no interest in you either, and don't affect your daily life at all I can bet, while complaining that you have to obey anyone or do anything any differently to go on about your life, all at the same time while trying to pretend like anyone is trying to restrict your rights. Absolutely foolish to act like a victim while advocating for restrictions of rights of others.
