Trans without having Gender dysphoria?

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Are you so ignorant that you basically half-assed reading what I wrote? I am not complaining about you not agreeing with me. You are so self-absorbed that you take an "I am right and everyone else is wrong." position. You aren't the kind of objectivity. You don't seem to make distinctions between opinion and fact.

My problem with you is basically believe that your opinion is an objective truth and not a personal truth. Of course, people use sex and gender synonymously, but not everyone and not even a majority. Different definitions come about by different people. Officially, gender is a highly contextual word that can mean sex if put in the right context, but by itself it isnt synonymous with sex.

If you just google the topic, you will see that many sources dont agree with each other. This means it is multifaceted or practically a matter of interpretation. This shows the problem of your absolutist views.

And that is my point, the big problem that I have noticed among autists is that bad articulation of ones opinions can lead to troublesome situations. Also it isn't new definition vs old definition. But the oldest definition is that gender was first only used in a linguistic sense to define the genus aka male and female words in languages such as le vs la in French. Then in the 50s, it came to define the mental/social sex making it related to sex but not the same as sex. And some time since then people used sex and gender synonymously. So basically in the current situation there are three parallel definitions. And most dictionaries have all three listed, because all three are used commonly. Commonly doesn't mean by majority but that it is noticeable.

Do you have a GCSE and lots of spare time? If you why don't you take some linguistics, psychology and neurolinguistics classes at Open University? http://www.open.ac.uk/

Gender dysphoria and physical (body) dysphoria can and should be considered separate things. Gender dysphoria is a state of discomfort, distress, or dissatisfaction with the gender you were assigned at birth. I think of this as basically the universal situation for trans people. You don't need body dysphoria to be trans, though. When people online say you don't need "dysphoria" to be trans, they're almost certainly talking about body dysphoria.

Of course they very frequently go hand in hand, but they are two distinct aspects to be considered as such.

I didn't experience dysphoria before I transitioned. My gender was just something that was persistent and innate, though didn't cause me any specific angst or emotional pain.

The closest I got to dysphoric feelings was just a sense of living a male life being interminably boring and lifeless.

When I began transitioning, and had that goal firmly in mind that's when I started to experience dysphoria, I could see where I wanted to be, I was far closer to it than ever before but I was also still so far away with a long and difficult journey ahead. Everyone other woman and trans woman that was 'further along' was a source of angst. "What can't it be that easy for me?" stuff like that.

Those kinds of thoughts never occurred to me before transitioning. So as far as I'm concerned, I did not experience gender dysphoria before I transitioned.

And you don't need gender dysphoria to be trans. It's an adjective after all, so it's just a state of being, you don't need to do or feel anything to be something. Dysphoria is an EXTREMELY common symptom of being trans, often exacerbated by how society treats trans people, but it's not a requirement, and not every trans person experiences it, nor experience it in the same way.

Being transgender is simply having a gender identity that is incongruent with the gender assigned at birth. This includes non-binary genders, of which, I came to realise, my gender is.

It's been ten years since I started my transition, and it was definitely the right decision for me, dysphoria or not, binary or not.

As to the sex/gender stuff... Most professionals in the medical field I've interacted with (not just trans related) see trans women as of the female sex. XY Females (presuming that their chromosomes are XY, unless tested who knows really). And trans men as of the male sex. XX Males.

This is not all that different from many intersex conditions. (There has been talk that being trans could be a kind of intersex condition anyway, but eh *shrug*)

People that get so hung up on sex and gender and genitalia and whether a man is really "biologically* a woman or vice versa aren't really worth dealing with. Their own ignorance means history will inevitably leave them all behind. Just a matter of time.

Hi, I'm new to this website!

I would honestly want to say that I relate to this in some way. I sometimes don't feel dysphoric, but I do believe that I am transgender, but I'm also unsure if it's just a phase or something that is really something I should pay attention to.

It could also just be because I'm not a transgender male or female, but rather non-binary and still experimenting. After being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, it probably would feel like it had something to do with that and why I don't experience full-blown dysphoria due to apathetic feelings that derive from my diagnosis.

I have ADHD, SAD and AD.
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