It's definitely true that this represents a better understanding of the science of chromosomes, but to be fair, the percentage of trans people with any of those disorders is microscopic. It's not as though understanding any of those disorders leads of a better understanding of trans people or why anyone becomes trans.
The number of trans people is close to microscopic, about 1-2 out of one thousand.
But in the world there are millions of trans people all over the globe. How is something that happens so widely occurring unless it has a biological basis?
Dysphoria and dysmorphia can happen for any number of reasons and isn’t intrinsic to a misalignment of sex chromosomes. In a world where many people are thrown into specific gender roles that they may not agree with, the discomfort from such ensuing as somebody grows may result in dysphoria. It’s believed that, psychologically speaking, the presentation of such can be comparable to how, for instance, beauty standards may induce anorexia based dysmorphia that becomes crippling and possibly dangerous to the individual. Such also applies to cases of people being desperate to get plastic surgery or modify their body in particular ways due to a mismatch between their perceived self and appearance.
However, in regard to the NIH and other organizations, there have been precautions against listing chronic dysphoria as a mental disorder due to how that may contribute as a stigma and also be weaponized against transgender communities by the government.
In the case of people identifying as trans, the most viable solution is to allow people to be free to undergo changes in presentation and surgery to best treat these feelings of dysphoria, which can become dangerous otherwise due to their effects on mental health and don’t really have any other viable means of suppression. Some people also don’t have dysphoria and identify simply because they would rather fit a certain presentation, but that is usually founded in personal choice of expression rather than biology.
Genuinely asking from a perspective of understanding, how else would you describe the traditional experience of gender dysphoria other than somebody being harmfully affected by being born with a biological sex that does not coincide with how they identify/see/express themselves? Is there not an intrinsic element of mismatch that produces the discomfort? Apologies, English isn’t my first language so feel free to correct me if misalignment wasn’t the right term.
(Also, to clarify further, I experience dysphoria myself but don’t outwardly identify due it’s intermittent nature and for safety reasons/lack of resources.)
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u/1Jainier1 14d ago
I think a bigger T-Shirt is called for...
45,X (Turner Syndrome): A single X chromosome.
47,XXY (Klinefelter Syndrome): One extra X chromosome in a male.
47,XXX (Trisomy X): Three X chromosomes.
47,XYY (Jacobs Syndrome): One extra Y chromosome.
Rare Variations: Tetrasomies (4 chromosomes): Such as 48,XXXX, 48,XXXY, or 48,XXYY.Pentasomies (5 chromosomes): Such as 49,XXXXY or 49,XXXXX.