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Originally Posted by jimi...
On the PC main page about different condition, gender identity disorder is listed under sexual disorders. In case you did not know this, GID starts in childhood, long before someone gets sexual. It has to do with a person's identifying with being male or female (or bi- or agender). It has to do with what is expected of you as a boy or girl, and if the wrong thing is expected of you, you experience gender dysphoria.
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For some reason, I feel like this came up because of me,
I don't think it is, but I am like that. Feeling guilty or the center of attention when not.
Some argue that GID starts sooner than childhood. While nothing conclusive, there has been observations that point at things physiological. Identifying is one aspect, but it is far greater than just a social aspect. Enough that the aspect of being treated a certain doesn't always play into it at all. I can vouch for this.
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Originally Posted by jimi...
In early years it can be how the child is dressed, what toys to play with and whom to play with. In later life it can be choice of education and choice of career. A transgendered male to female might not have to like all girly stuff but he WILL get in trouble if he does. The core is what gender you feel you are.
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"A transgendered male to female might not have to like all girly stuff but
she WILL get in trouble if
she does."
While I tend to be alright, more so than most, proper pronoun usage is encourage and is based on presentation, not initial physical design. I have worked with folks having to deal with this, i.e. the families and so it's something I've had to toughen up to.
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Originally Posted by jimi...
That is much different from sexual disorders which have to do with people having unusual SEXUAL preferences, like fetishism or even pedophilia.
Sexuality is just secondary in GID, same as to any person. A GID person can be straight, gay, bi or asexual, just like anyone else. So it is not being sexually unusual or disordered.
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I believe when they refer to the sexual aspect, they are speaking less of the act; but in terms to sexual when it refers to physical design as sexual is seen as the body aspect and gender refers to the brain aspect. As in like it says on things a persons Sex.
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Originally Posted by jimi...
In DSM IV the headline for these condition is "Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders", so NOT just sexual disorders.
It bothers me that such misinformation is on a site like this.
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Yeah, that part sort of bothers a lot of transfolk people. DSM-5 is going to the designation of Gender Dysphoria and losing Gender Identity Disorder as it misrepresents it as something that is "fixable". Last I saw, before they took it down for finalization.
If I misunderstood or something, I'm sorry, I am. But, when I see posts come up I tend to have flags raised in my head and I begin to look and pick apart the words, because of the delicate nature of it all.