>>53766445You don't need to be a professional chef to know if food tastes good, and you don't need to be a trained psychologist to identify patterns of thought and behavior that cause a person significant distress and impairment in their daily functioning.
If there's a disjunction between your self-image and the actual state of your body that's so severe that it's making you want to kill yourself or pursue medical interventions for force the two into alignment, it's self-evident that it's distressing you a great deal.
>>53765697People are free to diet and lift weights as much as they like, but if you're anorexic a doctor won't help you starve yourself down to skin and bones, nor will he write you a prescription for 1000mg/week of trenbolone and test so you can blow yourself up like Dorian Yates—gender dysphoria is no different, except that medical professionals will happily string you along until you run out of money or kill yourself.
