Children' show tries to make children believe that Gender Dysphoria is normal.

Children' show, 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦'𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴, users animated transgender man to try to make children believe that Gender Dysphoria is normal.

In 2006, a North Carolina woman, Jewel Shuping, deliberately poured drain cleaner into her eyes, rendering herself blind. Why? Because she believed she was a blind person trapped inside a sighted person’s body. In Otawa, Canada, a man who prefers the pseudonym “One Hand Jason”, deliberately severed his arm with a power saw because he believed he was a disabled man trapped inside an able body. These are not isolated cases. There are literally hundreds of other cases world-wide, where people have mutilated themselves to achieve a physical state that accords with their mental self-perception. Colloquially, people suffering from this condition refer to themselves as “transabled”. (http://www.ranker.com/list/what-is-transabled/jacob-shelton). There is even a case where a person believes he is a dog trapped inside a man’s body, and spends large amounts of time living in a dog kennel in his back yard.  In fact, so many people suffer from this psychiatric illness that it has been given its own classification in clinical diagnostic manuals, “Body Integrity Identity Disorder” (BIID).

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMMD) is the internationally recognised gold standard diagnostic tool for the identification and treatment of mental illness, published in conjunction with the American Psychiatric Society. It categorises both Gender Dysphoria and Body Dysmorphic Disorder as treatable mental disorders. Gender Dysphoria refers to a state of distress resulting from dissonance between one’s perceived gender identity and one’s physiological gender. Body Dysmorphic Disorder is the obsessive idea that some aspect of one’s own appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix it. When applied to the transgender issue it refers to a deep disgust and revulsion towards one’s own genitalia and a desire to have the genitals and body shape of the opposite sex.

The current official view of world-wide psychiatric professionals, expressed in the DSMMD, is that people who identify as transgender, believing that they are one gender trapped inside the opposite gender’s body, are sufferers of a mental illness.

There is additional significant research identifying an extremely high prevalence of other mental illnesses among transgender people. A 2013 study published by the U.S. National Institute of Health found that 65% of transgender people in the study had lifetime ideation of suicide and 41% had attempted suicide. A 2017 Australian study of 595 transgender people between the ages of 14 and 25, conducted jointly by the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, found that 50% had attempted suicide and a staggering 70% were being treated for other mental illnesses such as bipolar disease, schizophrenia, psychosis, anxiety and depression. These and many other studies reveal the profound and pervasive mental unwellness of transgender individuals.

We need to stop promoting mental illness, and start promoting mental wellness.