[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by Refractive Reflections

So I read through the articles...
https://www.healthyplace.com/ocd-rel...der-bdd-dsm-5/

One could easily argue that this reasoning could apply to those transgendered, since they see the "perceived defect" as their anatomy and their quality of life is impaired.


This "body dysmorphic disorder example" description is almost paralleling transgenderism here.



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...729-story.html

Putting aside the strong political activism in the article, this excerpt seems to be the crux of their argument. This becomes a huge slippery slope argument, basically stating "if society accepts how an individual identifies, that individual wouldn't have any distress and dysfunction." It begins to erode gender objectivity, and implicitly bolsters the arguments of those who are transracial, transabled, and dare I say trans-species, to make the same argument that their distress and dysfunction is from society, not by their ______ (gender, race, abled, species) incongruence itself.

As for that HuffPost article, yeah... it's hard to take that site seriously, when they initially didn't have qualms about posting things like this:
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/201...se_a_22036640/
http://archive.is/tveBZ
http://archive.is/QHqY4

Did the articles assist in bringing you any closer to finding answers to your original questions surrounding society, metal illness and bigotry?