Rubyloon Foxo on Nostr: One thing I've learned, about the mentality behind dysphoria being a requirement for ...

One thing I've learned, about the mentality behind dysphoria being a requirement for justifying these things, is that it's based around medicalism and the works of Blanchard that compounded that.

First of, there's the rhetoric that Blanchard is infamous for, in that there's a strict guideline of who can be "actually trans" under a specific criteria. Everyone else is just confused men who only want to transition to be attracted to themselves, thus the sexual angle to this.

It used to be that in order for a medical professional to sign off on treatment, one would have to say they feel dysphoric and deny the sexual aspects of in order to even be considered, because said medical professionals were going by Blanchard's writing as a guideline.

I personally think that's why this mentality and narrative is still so pervasive in trans circles, and it even got me for a while, too.

All I can say is, follow that euphoria. That's your heart telling you want you truly want, deep down.