>>11983971>>11984041The creation of such a subtype is not prescriptive, though. No one is going "there are three sorts of addictions: substance, general, and vidya gaems". There are as many "subtypes" as there are pleasurable activities. It's just that it's *useful* to create a subtype for video games because people commonly use video games as an escape these days and unscrupulous game designers are more than happy to try and hook them hard with tricks like daily login bonuses and the like.
Transgender people are a more difficult topic.
First thing first: nowhere does anyone say that scientifically speaking trans men/women are men/women and that this is a fact in the same sense that 1+1=2 is a fact. What is recognized is that who a given society chooses to label as a man or a woman is culture-dependent and thus outside of the purview of science. Intersex people, under many classification systems, are neither male nor female but are usually recognized as either men or women. Likewise, a given culture might or might nor recognize a trans person as a man or a woman. It depends on that culture's classification scheme.
Gender dysphoria is recognized as a mental illness, but transness itself was taken out of the ICD-11. The steel man tl;dr is that there is evidence that transness might be the result of something that is akin to an intersex condition of some small parts of the brain so, rather than a mental illness, we might be looking at a normative brain hooked to things it is not supposed to be hooked to. Again, let me stress that this does not imply that trans men/women are "really men/women inside", or otherwise. Making that call is outside of the purview of what is being discussed.
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