How is being transgender not a mental illness?

heats up popcorn. no one say **** till my popcorn's finished.

If supporting Everton isn't a mental illness then nowt is.

Okay I'm transgender. I'm not mad.

Gender dysphoria is the only thing that can, by definition, be classed as a mental illness.

So therefore, by definition, simply BEING transgender cannot be classed as one. I doubt you can explain how it can be once you look up the definition of a mental illness.

Not all transgender people experience dysphoria. I didn't.

Have a nice night, it's hard to understand something you haven't experienced I understand. But please don't go around telling people that do we're mentally ill, it's just not constructive. Just let us identify how we want. I am not biologically the sex I want to be, however I identify as such. That's IT.

Okay I'm transgender. I'm not mad.

Gender dysphoria is the only thing that can, by definition, be classed as a mental illness.

So therefore, by definition, simply BEING transgender cannot be classed as one. I doubt you can explain how it can be once you look up the definition of a mental illness.

Not all transgender people experience dysphoria. I didn't.

Have a nice night, it's hard to understand something you haven't experienced I understand. But please don't go around telling people that do we're mentally ill, it's just not constructive. Just let us identify how we want. I am not biologically the sex I want to be, however I identify as such. That's IT.

Okay I'm transgender. I'm not mad.

Gender dysphoria is the only thing that can, by definition, be classed as a mental illness.

So therefore, by definition, simply BEING transgender cannot be classed as one. I doubt you can explain how it can be once you look up the definition of a mental illness.

Not all transgender people experience dysphoria. I didn't.

Have a nice night, it's hard to understand something you haven't experienced I understand. But please don't go around telling people that do we're mentally ill, it's just not constructive. Just let us identify how we want. I am not biologically the sex I want to be, however I identify as such. That's IT.

Transgenderism =/= Gender Dysphoria???

You could at least do research before asking me that.

But if people didn't have gender dysphoria why else would they need to dress up as the opposite sex? The definition of the word is "the condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex" if you didn't feel this then why else would there be the need to cross-dress or have the need to get a sex change? I'm honestly sorry if my words had offended you or anyone else, I am genuinely curious about this issue.

I thought I had.
What do you believe the difference is?

lmao typical woolly comment

lol jk Im not from liverpool so idc about the reds v blues

You clearly haven't dug deep enough.

The difference is dysphoria is an intense dislike of one's physical appearance concerning their biological sex. It's not simply dislike. It's constant discomfort.

I may have experienced it in childhood (around the age of 9), but now (even pre everything) it does not exist.

Is there a general age that people realize they are transgender or experience gender dysphoria? Can it happen late in life?
Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria and that distinction is important to keep in mind. Gender dysphoria and/or coming out as transgender can occur at any age.
The DSM-5* distinguishes between Gender Dysphoria in Childhood for those who experience GD before puberty. The diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults can occur at any age. For those who experience gender dysphoria later in life, they often report having secretly hidden their gender dysphoric feelings from others when they were younger.

Why do you feel the need to argue with me? I AM TRANS, I did not have dysphoria. I just know I'm the opposite sex.

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/expert-qa

Wool? I'm from inner-city Liverpool, man

So the difference is the intensity of the dislike?

You clearly haven't dug deep enough.

The difference is dysphoria is an intense dislike of one's physical appearance concerning their biological sex. It's not simply dislike. It's constant discomfort.

I may have experienced it in childhood (around the age of 9), but now (even pre everything) it does not exist.