Is it normal i think gender identity disorder isn't handled correctly?

Curing a man who thinks he's a woman by giving him breast implants is like curing a schizophrenic who thinks he's Napoleon by giving him a sword. Even if you don't like it, you can't be something you're not. You can't turn yourself into a snake by cutting off your arms and legs. Many people who have gotten a sex change even keep their original genitals, meaning they won't even fully embrace the cause they claim to support. Why are there people who say they're women when they won't make themselves more like one, even when they have the option? Also, why was the concept of GID completely unheard of before the 20th century? Think about it. For a long time, people have been mutilating their bodies because of how it looks. Looking like the opposite sex is simply the newest fad in body modification. We've had foot binding, tongue splitting, eyeball tattooing, subdermal implants, and so on and so forth so sex changes are just another one of those crazy things people do to get attention and be different. Yes, teens have killed themselves over it. But don't forget about the teen who killed himself over losing his iPod, or all the kids who have slit their wrists over relationships or because their parents wouldn't let them go out. Just because they commit suicide over it doesn't mean it was a good reason or that it wouldn't have gone away with or without help. People with GID should be treated with medication and therapy like any other mental disorder. The GID fad will die out like female hysteria, and sex changes will go the way of blood-letting.

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  • This is about the worst abuse of logic I've seen on IIN. I can only hope it's deliberate.

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  • "Curing a man who thinks he's a woman by giving him breast implants is like curing a schizophrenic who thinks he's Napoleon by giving him a sword."

    Give a woman who lives in a male body breasts, and you go some way to treating the "symptoms" (I wouldn't really call it a disorder, but I'll adopt your style of medical vocabulary anyway). Give a schizophrenic a sword and you don't treat the symptoms, you indulge their delusions.

    "Also, why was the concept of GID completely unheard of before the 20th century?"

    I'm sure there absolutely were people born in the wrong body for their gender 100 years ago. We name disorders now when we never named them before. We didn't have a name for almost any mental illnesses 100 years ago, that doesn't make them not real.

    "Just because they commit suicide over it doesn't mean it was a good reason or that it wouldn't have gone away with or without help."

    Have your sexual identity marginalised by society, feel unable to tell anyone who you are, live a lie to yourself and everyone around you and feel ashamed of feelings you can't help having. Try feeling that way for your whole life. Then we'll see if your views on suicide stay the same.

    "the teen who killed himself over losing his iPod"

    Source?

    "People with GID should be treated with medication and therapy like any other mental disorder."

    Some disorders can't be treated by medication, and some disorders can't be treated by your standard "talking therapies". Anyone who has spent 10 minutes researching what they are talking about knows this.

    "The GID fad will die out like female hysteria, and sex changes will go the way of blood-letting."

    Did you know they still use blood-letting in some medical procedures? It's rare but it happens.

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    • I want nothing to do with the actual topic, but I saw you ask for who the dude who killed himself over an iPod is, and it's Mitchell Henderson. The "An Hero" kid.
      http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/an-hero
      Just thought I'd let you know who he was talking about because I asked the same question before I realized I knew who they were talking about.

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      • Ah, thank you. So the lack of iPod wasn't the actual cause of the suicide then?

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        • I actually have no idea. I just remembered him from my regrettable /b/tard days. Haha!
          I do think there actually WAS someone whose ipod was stolen and they immediately killed themselves over the prospect of no longer having it, and I THINK it was him, but I also think that was lost to the sea of data!

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  • My biggest problem with this post is that the OP seems to take gender reassignment surgery lightly. Many many trans-gender people want to have been born with the proper parts, but going through a life-threatening operation isn't for everyone. For some, it's a priority of wanting to live at all more than risk their life for a chance to live anatomically in accordance with their gender identity. I agree that some people seem to jump into thinking they're the wrong gender and make drastic decisions, but I also believe that some people really have a problem being physically a gender they don't feel they are mentally, and it doesn't go away by ignoring it.

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  • I am guessing you never got bullied in school or you wouldn't think suicide is such a joke. Just because you don't see the tree fall does not mean it did not happen.

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  • I don't think it's a "disorder". No one chooses to be a male or female when he/she is born. Suppose 50% of all people want to be a male and the other want to be a female, and there'll be 50% male and 50% female in "disorder". That's more of something that someone doesn't like his/her birthplace so he/she migrates to where he/she wants. No one chooses his/her homeland, too.

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  • yeah i spose , maybe we should all be in kaftans :)

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  • DON'T give them swords.

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  • John becomes Tori let the people be what the want to be.

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  • I had no idea it was considered a "disorder."

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