Gender Identity Disorder was in the DSM, but the solution to it was transitioning. The problem was that that involved gatekeeping to make sure the person was really suffering from dysphoria, to make sure people would go out and get their dicks chopped off due to a psychotic episode or some other issue. This gatekeeping is what was being pushed agaisnt, troons don't want to have to someone questioning their narrative because they're already filled with self-doubt and experiencing any pushback destroys them. Part of the increase is that troons seem to be actively hunting for anybody experiencing any sort of dissatisfaction in their gender expression or body and selling them the idea that transitioning is the solution to their problems. Considering how we know that advertising fucks up people's perception of their own bodies, it's essentially the modern world brainwashing people into being depressed and selling them body mutilation and lifelong medicalization as a solution.
The historical thing is especially stupid because the examples they use are all have to do with socially constructed gender roles, not gender dysphoria. If there really were the same proportionate number of troons historically, where are all the castrations? If being trans is actually some regular variation of human neurology, we should be seeing gender dysphoria everywhere.
If trans people existed historically, as they exist today, you'd expect men to be volunteering for castration historically. Creating eunuchs dates back to the ancient world, so surgeons knew how to do it, and eunuchs were often expected to present as female as part of their role in society. So where are all the voluntary eunuchs? Why don' t we have records of that beyond one crazy Roman emperor? This is a condition that we are repeatedly told drives people to suicide, so why is it that we don't see any historical record of people expressing anything like gender dysphoria and doing diy surgeries or anything?
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