• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Your words:

      In the other, your own body is wrong. This is completely internal, and that part of the problem has nothing to do with how society thinks about you – even if society’s opinion can of course make it worse.

      Someone with a deformity thinks their own body is wrong. That is completely internal. How did society tell them that deformity is wrong? Actually- let’s go with an easier one. Nose jobs. We allow teenage girls to get nose jobs when they feel their own body is wrong. That is completely internal too. And yet it’s a very common practice that, unlike any sort of medical treatment for transgender kids, requires no psychological counseling whatsoever.

      So you should be very, very against the harm that nose jobs cause to children. It could make what society thinks of them worse, right?

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        1 year ago

        Someone with a deformity thinks their own body is wrong. That is completely internal. How did society tell them that deformity is wrong?

        If they genuinely think their body is wrong in relation to their thoughts, society has nothing to do with that discrepancy. They have a man’s body (for instance), but they feel they should have a woman’s body. That was exactly my point. Thinking this is the same thing as a nose job feels a bit insulting to their problems.