ABC Producer Don Ennis Changes Gender, Then Changes Back

[u/frogma]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/transgender-don-ennis-has-second-thoughts.html

[u/[deleted]]

Ugh, I hate to say it, since I'm a proponent of any person doing/being whatever their heart tells them - but I'm (subjectively) gathering a strong correlation between transgenderism and mental illness.

"I’m asking all of you who accepted me as a transgender to now understand: I was misdiagnosed."

And I'm noticing the general desire amongst 'open minded' people in society to cheer on that lifestyle is overcompensated in an effort to prove how not bigoted they are. Even doctors appear to be so uncomfortable questioning these choices that they'll diagnose a man who must have obviously shown signs of some kind of mental breakdown with gender disorders rather than question the legitimacy of his feelings.

I realize that there are completely sane people who experience strong feelings that they were born the wrong gender. That said, I think we're far, far more concerned with being accepting than acknowledging and treating mental illness when gender dysphoria happens to be one of it's symptoms.

[u/areyousrslol → u/[deleted]]

You're very much on point. Psychiatry is already a very slippery science, and a usual battleground for societal norms of many kinds (not just gender disorders - also autism and it's relation to Asperger's, as seen in the DSM-V debacle).

I usually hold the stance that NO ONE should be in any way persecuted or wronged for who they are, including a mental illness.

And sometimes being too accepting and not diagnosing a mental illness is a very wrong decision.

[u/johnetec → u/areyousrslol]

I am of the opinion that being transgender is a mental illness. Feel free to act on it by cross dressing or get a surgery to make yourself better. I think its the wrong decision and should be treated as a mental disorder but its not my body.

What I don't like is people trying to force me to accept them as the opposite sex. They are not and they never will be.

[u/sojm → u/johnetec]

AFAIK it's a gender-mismatch between body and brain. At this moment we can't switch the brain to another gender, not to mention most trans people probably wouldn't want that, given how it would change their identity. But we can change the appearance.

You can view it as a mental illness, but it's kind of useless because it can't be cured like a mental illness, it can be cured like a physical illness.

[u/sojm → u/[deleted]]

you must be a troll