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Originally Posted by jwb
you can say trans identity exists regardless of transition but so does sex. There would be nothing wrong with their sex if they didn't specifically feel like it clashes with their identity. Thus to say there's something wrong with their sex is implicitly acknowledging that they're is something negative about their condition. If they were born with the same exact sex but no trans identity issues then there would be no issue at all..
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yeah but (apart from some trans people not finding treatment necessary, and at least my rule of thumb definition of an illness/disorder is that it needs treatment) the implication is that there is something wrong in the identity itself beyond the sex aspect. Re: religious cult etc.