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Homosexuality used to be classified as a mental illness too. Why couldn't it be treated through therapy? Perhaps because in both cases conversion therapy: 1) doesn't work 2) is insanely unethical and seeks to use science as a weapon to enforce conformity 3) does not actually advance the care of the individual.
A person with gender dysphoria can spend their entire life repressing it, battling against it, and not get to feel present in their own life. The so-called John 50s. Or they can be given hormones and ADDRESS the incongruence directly.
Look at the case of David Reimer for example. You cannot force someone to live in a gender role that was assigned to them if it doesn't match who they are, whether it's by man or by nature.
The reason you have to resort to strawmen is because the things you describe just don't happen. So what difference does it make to you that the guy you walk past in the grocery store is trans? Same as the difference it makes to you that someone else is gay.
And what difference do you make to them? You advance a world that's hostile to them. You make their life harder. You make them into a group of people who need to win the right to exist.
I encourage you to reconsider your views, not from a place of picking holes in arguments, but from a place of love for your fellow man.
So basically everything that you said doesn't address a single thing in my comment.
You're simply Gish galloping at the moment going from one thing to the other.
Is there anything specifically you would like to address about my comment.
Specifically how the mental illness of gender dysphoria debunks the "I identify as" in the trans community in a relation to the comment that was responding to?
Also stop using the term straw man you don't know what it means none of you know what it means most of the internet doesn't know what it means you just heard it on some YouTube debunking videos.