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Being trans without dysphoria?

Started by Hex, June 25, 2014, 07:01:22 PM

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Silver Centurion

I have found myself often wondering what my life would be like if I had physical dysphoria. Like would my ability to understand myself and make decisions be easier if I had some seriously adverse reaction to what I see in the mirror?  I also find myself wondering what would happen if I did start hormones or opt for a surgery and would those decisions trigger dysphoria because how does one know how they are going to react to the changes made?  I have experienced social dysphoria though and that was a part of how I began to work through things. I think trans and dysphoria are definitely two separate things but one can lead to the other and in such a broad spectrum of reactions that it is difficult to know how things will go from one person to the next. One decision to the next.
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Carrie Liz

Isn't the very definition of gender dysphoria "The condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex"?

I don't get it, how can you transition without feeling that?

If you meant "dysphoria" as being the psychological distress that often accompanies it, then yes, of course you can transition without it. It all depends on how you cope with your gender identity. Most of us have been teased or gender-policed to the point that we do feel distress, and of course many of us have intense feelings of wrongness about our bodies, but hypothetically if someone isn't dysphoric about their body and also doesn't react to social pressure, or doesn't mind, they might not feel it at all.

However, if you don't feel dysphoria about your body at all, it might be a bad idea to change it. Change your social role all you want, that is ALWAYS changeable. But be forewarned that there's a risk of regrets when you start making permanent changes to body parts that you don't have any inherent feeling of "wrongness" with.
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helen2010

Quote from: PoeticHeart on June 25, 2014, 09:22:03 PM
I believe any attempt at essentializing gender to that of a physical form is running a dangerous path. This, to me, runs the risk of being highly invalidating to those with non binary identities.

I believe dysphoria is important in some cases, and not so much in others. I believe all trans people are important and equal

If you tell me you're trans, I believe you.

For me being a trans non binary and dysphoria are tightly coupled but  I can understand that for some that this may not be the case.

Aisla
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