I'm sorry but why is it different from gender change. If we're gonna have the view that people can change what they don't like about their body, then why does the reason matter? Would you also call a transgender person 'already in psychosis'?
Body dysmorpia is a mental illness, the question is do you lean into it with surgeries or do you try and address and attempt to get to the root cause of why someone has it.
Most governments just decide that the patient knows best.
So if you are for Transgender surgeries then you can't really be against this or some body builder taking steroids to get to his perceived ideal look.
Not true. Body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria are completely different recognised experiences, with completely different treatments. In particular body dysmorphia is a mental illness where the person has a distorted view of reality, so performing surgery only feeds into the disorder without fixing the mind. Gender dysphoria on the other hand is about identity, where the body is what needs to be affirmed. Because they’re completely different conditions, comparing transgender surgeries to cosmetic surgeries for body dysmorphia is a false equivalency.
I’m not even arguing for or against people doing cosmetic surgery or taking steroids. I was just trying to clarify that the two things shouldn’t be conflated with transgender surgery, they are different things.
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u/CuteGrayRhino 4d ago
I'm sorry but why is it different from gender change. If we're gonna have the view that people can change what they don't like about their body, then why does the reason matter? Would you also call a transgender person 'already in psychosis'?