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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it not a mental illness/disorder if everything that makes you a particular gender - hormones, chromosomes, body parts and body shape - make you one gender but your brain tells you that you’re another? Serious, but maybe ignorant question.[/quote]
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Any possible medical interventions are used to change the body to better fit with one’s true self. The brain doesn’t need to be “fixed” (aside from possible anxiety or depression), just maybe the body.

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Here's the problem- you are assuming that transgenderism is in fact a [u]child's [/u] "tue self" and that the body needs to be fixed t omatch the brain.   But that  assumes that the brain's way of thinking is fixjed, not elastic, and that the body is what we should be fixing.

There is a ton of research that shows how the brain is in fact elastic, and can change.  Really the whole idea of Cognitive Behavioral therapy is about changing the way the brain is thinking.  
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/about/pac-20384610

There is also plenty of research about how teens try on different identities and he experience a fair amount of discomfort about body changes during puberty.  
There is plenty of research about how children are impressionable.
There is also plenty of research that most gender dysphoria does not persist into adulthood.
https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/whats-missing-from-the-conversation-about-transgender-kids.html
So- why is it that we choose to try and change kids bodies, instead of changing the way their brains are thinking?[/quote]

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