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People with gender dysphoria are by definition mentally ill...
by sincerely 7y ago
People with gender dysphoria are by definition mentally ill...
- dang 7y agoThat sounds like a circular statement to me. But even if true, it's not ok to diagnose people on HN or to use diagnostic labels to juice up arguments. Note how the GP's substance doesn't change if you take out the label "mentally ill". It just gets less labelly.
- stordoff 7y agoI don't believe that's what the post is saying though. It appears to be saying a minority of them are mentally ill.
- mimi89999 7y agoAd hominem arguments are always unacceptable. People with various mental illnesses (depression, autism, asperger, OCD, etc.) can still hold perfectly valid claims. The fact that somebody might see the world in a different way does not discredit them.