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misunderstood your original response, my bad.

gender could exist as an internal thing if you’re literally only referring to your brain’s map of your body, I guess. but that’s not how these people define gender. (I’m assuming they’re anti-truscum, but regardless). I’m still not fully comfortable with that though?

I do believe dysphoria exists as in your brain’s map of your body doesn’t match with your physical body. But I don’t think the treatment for that is surgery…

no I feel you, a lot of tumblr discourse lately uses ‘gender’ when they mean ‘gender roles’ so shit gets confusing. if I may ask, what do you think the treatment for dysphoria should be?

not sure exactly but I think it should be treated as a psychological disorder or something? like people have brain maps that tell them they shouldn’t have a left arm but we don’t go and cut off their arms. correct the map, not the body.

are there examples of individuals having brain maps that lack limbs where their physical body has the limb? to my knowledge it’s only been the other way around (i.e. amputees and phantom limbs)

yeah there are - I’d find the sources for you but I’m on mobile. it’s obviously not as common as phantom limb but it does happen.