See, when I look at some alleged “enbies”, I think their psychological problems have nothing to do with dysphoria. It’s more often a manifestation of a mood, personality, eating disorder, or something else that’s affecting their perception. They’re disoriented from who they are and can’t forage their identities for themselves, this could be likely for a multitude of reasons.
A little powerleveling, but for me at least, I was forced to grow up in a household with an extremely traditionalist, overbearing mother who forced the idea of femininity down my throat from a young age, so by the time I reached adolescence, I started to loathe the idea of being “female”, and eventually began identifying with an “enbie” gender, before just realizing that I was a casual tomboy. My mental health being unstable for that period of my life did contribute to my reinforcement of this impostrous self I’d crafted. I did eventually just discover that I’m not a girly girl, and that mentally, I needed a few adjustments, better medication, proper disgnosis, better coping mechanisms. In that time I also came to the conclusion that I was just straight up bisexual, feelings that I’d kinda been shouldering for awhile with the insistence that I was a special snowflake. The wrong form of false discovery led to the right form of self discovery, I guess?
Another example I can think of is Sara Marie “Jude” Karda, she’s an alleged “enbie”, but from what I can tell she seems like she has body dsymorphia, not gender dysphoria, as a result of what seems to be an unspecified eating disorder. Her body is unrealistically thin, and she wants to remain that thin so badly that she basically mistook it for “gender dysphoria” and started claiming “enbie” despite her being comfortable with the female gender beforehand. She even underwent mastectomy, and somehow got on T (she’s canadian, guess given that the docs are irresponsible there). I think this isn’t about her “gender” at all, it’s her discomfort with the size of her body, not her genitals. I do feel like she’s not doing herself any favors by altering her hormones or chopping off her breasts, she doesn’t seem very happy either way. I think this girl needs to find out for herself, but she has a large following of teenage girls as an Instagram “model”, and that in itself makes her influence worrisome.
So to chalk it up, a lot of kids mistake “having a mental illness that affects your perceptive sense” for “I’m trans”, when they’re not trans, not even close. Dsymorphia and dysphoria are two different things, they’re both cognitive but they’re completely different psychologically. A lot of things can ultimately impact the brain to mistakenly identify things, so in some cases I can’t say I fully blame these enbie kids for using it as a coping mechanism for say, bpd or bipolar disorder if they have it, but their toxicity is not helping, moreover probably worsening their symptoms. Whereas if they learned how to properly express their identities without stomping on legitimate lgbt people, they’d probably feel better.
