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There are competing ideologies between the United States and the Rest of the World, essentially culminating in two approaches of diagnosing psychological and ps
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
There are competing ideologies between the United States and the Rest of the World, essentially culminating in two approaches of diagnosing psychological and psychiatric health concerns.
One comes from the American Psychological Association, called the DSM and another comes from the World Health Organization called the ICD.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/10/icd-dsm https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/10/icd-dsm
- kaitai 5y agoThis doesn't address the "dysphoria = trans" claim at all. As I wrote in the other comment, one can be uneasy or unhappy with one's body/gender without wanting to switch to "the other" gender. As a mathematician, it seems like people here are claiming {1,2} = R (real numbers) which is just weird, they're sets of different cardinality.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoYou are arguing semantics. The specific words that the scientific community uses to refer to reality in their models of reality often change. For example, “discomfort” in gender dysphoria is a scientific term that implies a level of suffering on par with the “discomfort” one would feel immediately after a major surgery, during the recovery phase, except this discomfort is chronic. Scientifically, people experiencing gender dysphoria are considered to be in a state of chronic suffering for which there is a medical treatment, called gender affirming care. Not all gender affirming care results in gender reassignment.