Highly functioning autistic people aren't mentally ill?

Regardless of how you want to define it.

Transgender and transexual are not the same thing though

That's false equivalence, Cosby.

I know they're not.

There's just a massive dispute over what's what and what exists and what doesn't.

That's what I mean.

Right, so I'm trying to figure out why you make the exception for this one particular type of illness. You don't think it's an illness?

What is gender dysphoria? Did doctors make it up?

Okay, for two reasons:

1) There are physiological roots to transsexualism;

I'm eager to see you debunk a recognized medical condition

2) Not every transsexual suffers from any subsequent mental illness.

gender and sex meant the same thing up until about 4 years ago btw

I've seen professionals describe it as not being a mental illness

So, if you cannot tie every single transsexual to a mental illness, you cannot equate transsexualism to a mental illness.

@Cobra Commander I personally don't know enough about the degree tract itself to say for sure how it is different but I still think people who want to take it should be able to as long as their university offers it

Sure I can

I am not denying the existence of gender dysphoria either.

You can't.

I can also stipulate that gay people are ill as well

also gender dysphoria is absolutely a mental illness and treating it like it isn't is hurting people

If transsexualism is a mental illness per se, why are there healthy transsexuals?

it does absolutely nothing to combat problems that people with it have

Define "healthy" lmao

Healthy individuals.

Healthy like you and me.

Is it healthy to not identify with you genital?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-organization-removes-gender-dysphoria-from-list-of-mental-illnesses/

Not on meds.

Not on some sort of treatment.

Not suicidal.

Being on meds is what makes someone sick?

No self-harm.

Presumably, yes.

Lots of African kids who are perfectly healthy, since they aren't getting medicine

That's stupid

Transgender people have been around for much longer than 4 years @Cobra Commander

This argument you have is really dumb

You know exactly what I am saying.

Stop twisting it.