Not sure this is delusion at work. Dysphoria is real; depending on your sources, one in 15-65,000 births pass the medical criteria. However when we have hundreds of times as many claiming dysphoria (or insulting intelligence by claiming intermediate gender) then it's hard to accept that there are some genuine ones.
Not sure this is delusion at work. Dysphoria is real; depending on your sources, one in 15-65,000 births pass the medical criteria. However when we have hundreds of times as many claiming dysphoria (or insulting intelligence by claiming intermediate gender) then it's hard to accept that there are some genuine ones.
But there are, and they are not being helped by this raging fad.
And it's a painful existence. A genuine dysphoric lives in a state of continuous shock, a sense of wrongness. I dated one guy every time he came to Seattle, years, and I never would have known if he hadn't told me that this meeting would be our last because he was going into surgery soon. He didn't look, act, or sound at all feminine but if he qualified for reassignment then he had passed a high bar.
Not sure this is delusion at work. Dysphoria is real; depending on your sources, one in 15-65,000 births pass the medical criteria. However when we have hundreds of times as many claiming dysphoria (or insulting intelligence by claiming intermediate gender) then it's hard to accept that there are some genuine ones.
But there are, and they are not being helped by this raging fad.
And it's a painful existence. A genuine dysphoric lives in a state of continuous shock, a sense of wrongness. I dated one guy every time he came to Seattle, years, and I never would have known if he hadn't told me that this meeting would be our last because he was going into surgery soon. He didn't look, act, or sound at all feminine but if he qualified for reassignment then he had passed a high bar.
And he didn't give a damn about pronouns.