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Rath on 07 April 2008
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Sqrl said:
Rath said:

@Sqrl. Psychiatry is a medical field. Also transgender disorders are far more common than people thinking they are animals. Also people who think they are not human, I think, generally have mental illnesses which their beliefs are symptoms of rather than a direct disorder.

Also the best way for transgender people to restore their mental health is to actually give them the body to match their mind.

To your second post, that was directed at people who find it wrong. I put 'abnormal' down with the quotation marks to show that. Suppose I should have made it more obvious, it was very ambiguous.


My point was that its classified as a mental problem. As in there isn't a medical reason for it so they are, to be blunt, "crazy". Its all in the head, and as any psychiatrist will tell you those who are extremely mentally ill thoroughly believe what they are thinking is valid and in most cases believe that there is nothing wrong with them. Sorry but unless there was a genetic mistake its just a mental disorder as far as I'm concerned, its calous sure but I'm really not the type to beat around the bush so that others feel warm and fuzzy about themselves.

As for which is more common it doesn't really make a difference but if you're correct(seems logical enough) and those who believe they should have been an animal are more rare then I would say that makes sense since it is probably just a more severe form of the same thing...and generally higher severities are less common.

 

Well I honestly can't find any info on people who don't believe they are humans (it must be really a very rare condition) so I can't really comment on its cause.

Also its not actually established that is a mental problem rather than physical or biological, I actually was wrong in saying it was a mental thing. Sorry about that.

 

In any case, even if you do believe that these people have a mental illness it makes no difference to what was originally being debated which is basically whether it is morally right for a person who has the body of one gender and gender identity of another to get a sex change.