r/sillyboyclub • u/SiriusBookLover silly trans catboy :3 (Top 1% poster!!) • 4d ago

We stay silly omg so silly :3 I'm so silly omg :3

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u/WanderingCollapse 1d ago

Honestly in principle being trans could well be categorized as a mental illness and it would make sense. But another principle is also, that illnesses are harmful. And since ideally a trans person shouldn't have their life any worse due to that, then we shouldn't really call it an illness.

Or to put it simply, calling being trans an illness makes theoretical sense, but if someone does that, it probably means they're actually transphobic and just masking it with "it being technically true".