It is a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which he/she/they identify. “Dysphoria” is a feeling of dissatisfaction, anxiety, and restlessness. Therefore, gender dysphoria is not liking the body that you were given. The William Institute states, “The prevalence of suicide attempts among respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality, is 41 percent, which vastly exceeds the 4.6 percent of the overall U.S. population who report a lifetime suicide attempt.” The fact is that these confused and troubled adults think they should be getting special treatment because of the challenges they are facing, when in reality, they need the correct medicine to help them with their anxiety, distress, …show more content…
People can’t read the facts and say that they still aren’t facts. You are not the sex with which you claim to be. If you ask someone why they aren’t forty years old when they are actually twenty, the answer is because that is just how old they are. It is the same argument with transgenders. Why aren’t you a boy? Because you are actually just a girl. You can’t just claim to be a boy then automatically be a boy. It is not correct biologically. It is a psychological idea that people get in their head because of the disease they have, gender dysphoria. Some people may say that when you have the desire to be of the opposite sex, you should be allowed to change your gender. This is wrong because it is not correct biologically, as stated before, you are not a man if you think you’re a