>>12301201>In that case, I don't think gender dysphoria is any more or less unhealthy than other social impetuses driven by self hatredIt depends, I'd say. First, it's opinion on our part one way or another. Second, it depends what "unhealthy" leads one to do.
Personally, I think "vanity" surgeries relative to whats been socially standardized as "looking better" is unhealthy.
Not unsimilar to girls getting implants and whatnot. Though I'd probably lean more towards calling out a culture that puts this sort of heat on individuals, but it's sort of a situation whose enemy is nigh impossible to exactly weed out.
In short, I just hope we can focus more on character. Vanity for character purposes I think is fine, that's kind of where I draw my limits.
I'm alright with hormones, but the genital surgeries are really not okay, and I don't think we should enable that sort of shit.
A culture could stand to encourage self acceptance and create environments that help encourage and nourish development of the individual specifically.
Each person has a set of keys in reality. I know it sounds corny, but we all get "unique access" and perception once we "know thyself", as the Egyptians said.
But we cannot know this person if we spend that life trying to be someone else, rather than understanding and developing ourselves.
