Do you think that everyone has the same amount of attention span that you do? You realize that we can scroll up to see your original reply where you say that mental illness is characterized by “an abnormal brain” right?
No I didn’t. I said that trans gender identity is often correlated with mental distress. It is this distress that is the illness. The same illness that reshapes a person’s brain so that we can see the structural abnormalities on scans.
Trans people having negative emotions isn’t because of societal acceptance, it’s the opposite.
They have negative emotions regardless of societal acceptance.
The issue arises when people disregard trans people’s experiences and call them “mentally ill”,
These two concepts are not linked. You can’t disregard that something exists AND call it a mental illness. You can do Either, not both.
and even refuse care proven to work on the basis of calling them mentally ill.
Two questions here:
1: Why would anyone deny mental care to the mentally ill?
2: What standard of care is it that has proven reduction in suicidality?
No I didn’t. I said that trans gender identity is often correlated with mental distress. It is this distress that is the illness. The same illness that reshapes a person’s brain so that we can see the structural abnormalities on scans.
They have negative emotions regardless of societal acceptance.
These two concepts are not linked. You can’t disregard that something exists AND call it a mental illness. You can do Either, not both.
Two questions here:
1: Why would anyone deny mental care to the mentally ill?
2: What standard of care is it that has proven reduction in suicidality?