>>6609494>I was never claiming it wasn't a mental illness, just that the illness isn't so crippling that they can't make decisions regarding their own bodies. I would by-and-large agree, of course - however, i have known transgender folk in the past who were not entirely reasonable or even sane regarding both their own transgenderism and the phenomenon as a whole. It certainly isn't a disability known for being conducive to proper mental health, though through no inherent fault of those who have it.
I don't want to give off the wrong impression - I am entirely in support of transgender rights (as i tried to make clear in
>>6608260), though i am of the belief that an unhealthy culture regarding it has developed in the West in recent years, which has thus led to rising rates of transgenderism misdiagnosis.
It saddens me that cute boys and pretty girls feel the need to mutilate their own bodies just to be able to love themselves. It must be a horrible condition, and i truly do pity those who have it - I wish nobody had to be transgender.
