Infinite Coscotlan wrote:Soyouso wrote:If you are transgender, whether you are nonbinary or binary, you have some sort of gender dysphoria. That's literally what not being comfortable being your assigned sex and mentally being something else no matter how you try to pretend to fit into it is, dysphoria. I don't see how a literal mental disorder can't possibly cause someone to feel nonbinary instead of the opposite just because people don't think it's possible. It's literally a disorder, it's not going to follow our rules or disappear because we don't want to think of it that way. The new gender identity names were made to describe it, not to confuse people and be edgy. There are people who think that they're nonbinary because they don't fit into gender stereotypes. That's not what being transgender is.
I am a bigender alterating person that has gender dysphoria. I don't choose which I am when I wake up in the morning. It just happens by itself and I have to hope to God I don't wake up male, because it's a burden. I hate my voice more than usual because it doesn't match my mental voice. Looking at myself in the mirror feels like looking at another person. I feel dread knowing I'll never have the "parts" I'm missing, and just want to get rid of the "parts" I do have because they just shouldn't fucking be there. Because I'm fluid, I'll never be able to fully transition like binary trans men get to, because guess what? Then my female side would start triggering dysphoria! It's not like I have different personalities, the problem is that they are both me, and I'll never get to fully live my life as either. Because of my female side I'll never get to fully transition as a male, and because of my male side I have to avoid certain things. I'm probably not even going to have kids (aside from adoption) because I wouldn't be able to handle the dysphoria. I'm so jealous of people that aren't fluid or aren't trans, they don't have to deal with this.
Don't try to act like my experience means nothing because you don't think it's possible. No amount of denial is going to just remove people like me from existing.
That is a most curious situation. Considering this constant alternation of gender identity causes so much distress, perhaps it is prudent to consider ontologically (i.e. philosophically) discarding both identities and simply see oneself as a conscious brain, no matter what the support structure looks like? After all, sex-based traits are as arbitrarily assigned as skin colour or nose shape, and need not be foundations of identity at all.
I know I could upload myself into a floating green sphere or a planet-sized tetrahedron without experiencing any identity dissonance.
I don't think most of us are capable of existing as beings of carnal self-surrender and perpetual transition.
Unless, of course, the collective in charge of the global water supply would add massive amounts of everything ergot-related into our water supplies. One can only hope, I guess.
